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Stevens: Extending Rapoport’s rule to Pacific Sian Sullivan: Guest Editorial: Towards a non-equilibrium marine fishes 149 ecology: perspectives from an arid land 1 Curtis H. Flather: Fitting species-accumulation functions and assessing regional land use impacts on avian diversity 155 Rain forest fragments Jean-Louis Martin and Jean-Claude Thibault: Coexistence in Mathilde Jullien and Jean-Marc Thiollay: Effects of rain forest Mediterranean warblers: ecological differences or interspecific disturbance and fragmentation: comparative changes of the territoriality? 169 raptor community along natural and human-made gradients in French Guiana 7 John M. Lynch: Postglacial colonization of Ireland by mustelids, with particular reference to the badger (Meles Barbara L. Zimmerman and Daniel Simberloff: An historical melesL.) 179 interpretation of habitat use by frogs in a Central Amazonian forest 27 Catherine E. Dunstan and Barry J. Fox: The effects of fragmentation and disturbance of rainforest on ground¬ Stefan Porembski, Jbrg Szarzynski. Jan-Peter Mund and dwelling small mammals on the Robertson Plateau, New South Wilhelm Barthlott: Biodiversity and vegetation of small-sized Wales, Australia 187 inselbergs in a West African rain forest (TaY, Ivory Coast) 47 Fangliang He, Pierre Legendre and James V. LaFrankie: Tree patterns Spatial pattern of diversity in a tropical rain forest in Malaysia Martin T. Sykes, 1. Colin Prentice and Wolfgang Cramer: A 57 bioclimatic model for the potential distributions of north European tree species under present and future climates 203 Insects Leif Bjbrkman and Richard Bradshaw: The immigration of Qiao Wang, Ian W. B. Thornton and Tim R. New: Fagiis sylvatica L. and Picea ahies (L.) Karst, into a natural Biogeography of the phoracanthine beetles (Coleoptera: forest stand in southern Sweden during the last 2000 years Cerambycidae) 75 235 Mikhail V. Kozlov: Patterns of forest insect distribution within D. M. J. S. Bowman and G. T. Connors: Does low temperature a large city: microlepidoptera in St Petersburg, Russia 95 cause the dominance of Acacia on the central Australian Kevin J. Gaston, Ian D. Gauld and Paul Hanson: The size and mountains? Evidence from a latitudinal gradient from 11° to composition of the hymenopteran fauna of Costa Rica 105 26° South in the Northern Territory, Australia 245 Book reviews 257 Correspondence G. R. Coope and G. Lemdahl: Validations for the use of beetle Volume 23, Number 3, May 1996 remains as reliable indicators of Quaternary climates: a reply Lennart Andersson: Guest Editorial: An ontological dilemma: to the criticisms by Johan Andersen 115 epistemology and methodology of historical biogeography Johan Andersen: Do beetle remains reliably reflect the 269 macroclimate in the past? - a reply to Coope & Lemdahl Gustav Paulay: Review Article: Circulating theories of coral 120 biogeography 279 Book reviews 123 Announcement 128 Plant geography Hanna Tuomisto and Axel Dalberg Poulsen: Influence of Volume 23, Number 2, March 1996 edaphic specialization on pteridophyte distribution in neotropical rain forests 283 Hui Jiang: Special paper: Diatoms from the surface sediments of the Skagerrak and the Kattegat and their relationship to the Byron B. Lamont and S. W. Connell: Biogeography of Banksia spatial changes of environmental variables 129 in southwestern Australia 295 Elmar Robbrecht: Genelic distribution patterns in subsaharan Cecilia M. Smith and Judith L. Bronstein: Site variation in African Rubiaceae (Anfiiospenncie) 311 reproductive synchrony in three neotropical figs 477 Will Edwards and Mark Westoby: Reserve mass and dispersal James M. Cook and Sally A. Power: Effects of within-tree investment in relation to geographic range of plant species: flowering asynchrony on the dynamics of seed and wasp phylogenetically independent contrasts 329 production in an Australian fig species 487 Kim St J. Damstra, Susan Richardson and Bev Reeler: Intertidal interlude Synchronized fruiting between trees of Ficus thouningii in seasonally dry habitats 495 Rodrigo H. Bustamante and George M. Branch: Large scale patterns and trophic structure of southern African rocky shores: John D. Nason, E. Allen Herre and James L. Hamrick: the roles of geographic variation and wave exposure 339 Paternity analysis of the breeding structure of strangler fig populations: evidence for substantial long-distance wasp Animal geography dispersal 501 Preben S. Ottesen: Niche segregation of terrestrial alpine G. Michaloud, S. Carriere and M. Kobbi: Exceptions to the beetles (Coleoptera) in relation to environmental gradients and one:one relationship between African fig trees and their fig phenology 353 wasp pollinators: possible evolutionary scenarios 513 P. Davies, C. H. Gale and M. Lees: Quantitative studies of Edward Allen Herre, C. A. Machado, E. Bermingham, J. D. modern wet-ground molluscan faunas from Bossington, Nason, D. M. Windsor, S. S. McCafferty, W. Van Houten and Hampshire 371 K. Bachmann: Molecular phylogenies of figs and their pollinator wasps 521 Jukka Jokimaki, Jukka Suhonen, Kimmo Inki and Simo Jokinen: Biogeographical comparison of winter bird Carlos A. Machado, Edward Allen Herre, Shawn McCafferty assemblages in urban environments in Einland 379 and Eldredge Bermingham: Molecular phylogenies of fig pollinating and non-pollinating wasps and the implications for Colmore S. Christian, Thomas D. Potts, G. Wesley Burnett and the origin and evolution of the fig-fig wasp mutualism 531 Thomas E. Lacher Jr: Parrot conservation and ecotourism in the Windward Islands 387 Myriam Harry, Michel Solignac and Daniel Lachaise: Adaptive radiation in the Afrotropical region of the Book reviews 395 Paleotropical genus Lissocephala (Drosophilidae) on the pantropical genus Ficus (Moraceae) 543 Volume 23, Number 4, July 1996 S. G. Compton, A. J. F. K. Craig and 1. W. R. Waters: Seed dispersal in an African fig tree: birds as high quantity, low Fig trees and their associated animals quality dispersers? 553 S. G. Compton, J. T. Wiebes and C. C. Berg: Introduction: The Elisabeth K. V. Kalko. Edward Allen Herre and Charles O. biology of hg trees and their associated animals 405 Handley, Jr: Relation of fig fruit characteristics to fruit-eating Aviva Patel: Strangler fig-host associations in roadside and bats in the New and Old World tropics 565 deciduous forest sites. South India 409 Ian W. B. Thornton, Stephen G. Compton and Craig N. S. van Noort and S. G. Compton: Convergent evolution of Wilson: The role of animals in the colonization of the Krakatau agaonine and sycoecine (Agaonidae, Chalcidoidea) head shape Islands by fig trees (Ficus species) 577 in response to the constraints of host fig morphology 415 Edward Allen Herre: An overview of studies on a community Marc Gibernau, Martine Hossaert-McKey, Marie-Charlotte of Panamanian figs 593 Anstett and Finn Kjellberg: Consequences of protecting flowers in a fig: a one-way trip for pollinators? 425 Judith L. Bronstein and Martine Hossaert-McKey: Variation in reproductive success within a subtropical fig/pollinator mutualism 433 Volume 23, Number 5, September 1996 Stuart A. West, Edward Allen Herre, Donald M. Windsor and Jerome E. Dobson: Special Paper: A palaeogeographic link Philip R. S. Green: The ecology and evolution of the New between Australia and eastern North America: a New England World non-pollinating fig wasp communities 447 connection? 609 Marie Charlotte Anstett, Finn Kjellberg and Judith L. Heidi M. Snell, Paul A. Stone and Howard L. Snell: Special Bronstein: Waiting for wasps: consequences for the pollination Paper: A summary of geographical characteristics of the of dynamics of Ficus pertusa L. 459 Galapagos Islands 619 Hugh Spencer, George Weiblen and Brigitta Flick: Phenology R. G. H. Bunce, C. J. Barr, R. T. Clarke, D. C. Howard and A. of Ficus variegata in a seasonal wet tropical forest at Cape M. J. Lane: Special Paper: ITE Merlewood Land Classification Tribulation, Australia 467 of Great Britain 625 Of armadillos, adders, amphibians and other animals Volume 23, Number 6, November 1996 James F. Taulman and Lynn W. Robbins: Recent range C. B. Cox: Guest Editorial: 20 years of a biogeography expansion and distributional limits of the nine-banded textbook 735 armadillo {Dasypiis novemcinctus) in the United States 635 D. W. Macdonald, F. Mitchelmore and P. J. Bacon: Predicting Trees and shrubs in time and space badger sett numbers: evaluating methods in East Sussex 649 M. S. Hopkins. J. Head. J. E. Ash, R. K. Hewett and A. W. C. J. Reading, S. T. Buckland, G. M. McGowan. G. Graham: Evidence of a Holocene and continuing recent Jayasinghe, S. Gorzula and D. Balharry: The distribution and expansion of lowland rain forest in humid, tropical North status of the adder (Vipera herns L.) in Scotland determined Queensland 737 from questionnaire surveys 657 R. J. Williams, G. A. Duff, D. M. J. S. Bowman and G. D. J. C. Poynton and R. C. Boycott: Species turnover between Cook: Variation in the composition and structure of tropical Afromontane and eastern African lowland faunas: patterns savanas as a function of rainfall and soil texture along a large- shown by amphibians 669 scale climatic gradient in the Northern Territory, Australia 747 Wilson R. Loureny'o, Orlando Cuellar and Fausto R. Mendez de la Cruz: Variation of reproductive effort between Christine Estreguil and Eric F. Lambin: Mapping forest-cover parthenogenetic and sexual populations of the scorpion Tityiis disturbances in Papua New Guinea with AVHRR data 757 cohimhianus 681 Jean-Yves Meyer and Jacques Florence: Tahiti’s native flora Spyros Sfenthourakis: A biogeographical analysis of terrestrial endangered by the invasion of Miconia calvescens DC. isopods (Isopoda, Oniscidea) from the central Aegean islands (Melastomataceae) 775 (Greece) 687 Rani M. Krishnan and Priya Davidar: The shrubs of the Western Ghats (.South India): floristics and status 783 Islands and their biogeography Andrew S. Gardner and Martin Fisher: The distribution and Mark V. Lomolino: Investigating causality of nestedness of status of the montane juniper wtwdlands of Oman 791 insular communities: selective immigrations or extinctions? Clare S. Watson: The vegetational history of the northern 699 Appennines, Italy: information from three new sequences and Stanley R. Herwitz. Richard P. Wunderlin and Bruce P. a review of regional vegetational change 805 Hansen: Species turnover on a protected subtropical barrier Leif Kullman: Recent cooling and recession of Norway spruce island: a long-term study 705 (Picea uhies (L.) Karst.) in the forest-alpine tundra ecotone of Ian Thomas and J. B. Kirkpatrick: The role of coastlines, the Swedish Scandes 843 people and fire in the development of heathlands in northeast Book reviews 855 Tasmania 717 Book reviews 729 Notice 733