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Contents Volume Contents Volume 97 Number1 January 2009 i Journalo f Ecology News M. J. HUTCHINGS, D. GIBSON, R. BARDGETT, G. CLEGG AND A. BAIER Future Directions A conceptual framework for predicting the effects of urban environments on floras N. S. G. WILLIAMS, M. W. SCHWARTZ, P. A. VESK, M. A. MCCARTHY, A. K. HAHS, S. E. CLEMANTS, R. T. CORLETT, R. P. DUNCAN, B. A. NORTON, K. THOMPSON AND M. J. MCDONNELI Forum Co-occurrence based assessment of species habitat specialization is affected by the size of species pool: reply to Fridley e7 al. (2007) D. ZELENY Beta diversity metrics and the estimation of niche width via species co-occurrence data: reply to Zeleny M. MANTHEY AND J. D. FRIDLEY Evolutionary coordination between offspring size at independence and adult size M. WESTOBY, A. T. MOLES AND D. S. FALSTER The scaling of seed size D. L. VENABLE AND M. REES Invasion ecology Resources, recruitment limitation and invader species identity determine pattern of spontaneous invasion in experimental grasslands C. ROSCHER, H. BEBLER, Y. OELMANN, C. ENGELS, W. WILCKE AND E.-D. SCHULZI Plant-—soil (below-ground) interactions Linkages between plant functional composition, fine root processes and potential soil N mineralization rates D. A. FORNARA, D. TILMAN AND S. E. HOBBII Plant-climate interactions Growth and carbon relations of tree line forming conifers at constant vs. variable low temperatures G. HOCH AND C. KORNER Elevated CO; enhances biological contributions to elevation change in coastal wetlands by offsetting stressors associated with sea-level rise J. A. CHERKR.Y L,. MCKEE AND J. B. GRACI Plant-herbivory interactions Competition, herbivory and genetics interact to determine the accumulation and fitness consequences ofa defence metabolite R. A. LANKAU AND D. J. KLIEBENSTEIN Optimal defence theory predicts investment in extrafloral nectar resources in an ant-plant mutualism j. N. HOLLAND, S. A. CHAMBERLAIN AND K. C. HORN Plant population and community dynamics Understanding the dynamics of an undisturbed tropical rain forest from the spatial pattern of trees N. PICARD, A. BAR-HEN, F. MORTIER AND J. CHADOEUI Low recruitment across life stages partly accounts for the slow colonization of forest herbs L. BAETEN, H. JACQUEMYN, H. VAN CALSTER, E. VAN BEEK, R. DEVLAEMINCK, K. VERHEYEN AND M. HERMY A bove- versus below-ground competitive effects and responses ofa guild of temperate tree species K. D. COATES, C. D. CANHAM AND P. T. LEPAGE Temporal and spatial genetic variation in a metapopulation of the annual Erysimum cheiranthoides on stony river banks O. HONNAY,H . JACQUEMYN, K. VAN LOOY, K. VANDEPITTE AND P. BREYNI Determinants of plant community diversity and structure Vegetation response to a short interval between high-severity wildfires in a mixed-evergreen forest reaheedeROea eean E atniTani a aeieatietaa e D. C. DONATO, J. B. FONTAINE, W. D. ROBINSON, J. B. KAUFFMAN AND B. E. LAW Shoot, but not root, competition reduces community diversity in experimental mesocosms E. G. LAMB, S. W. KEMBEL AND J. F. CAHILL JR Natural densities of mesograzers fail to limit growth of macroalgae or their epiphytes in a temperate algal bed \. G. B. POORE, A. H. CAMPBELL AND P. D. STEINBERG Mating system, reproduction mode and diaspore size affect metacommunity diversity eee ee S. LOBEL, T. SNALL AND H. RYDIN iV 186 Interspecific variation in seedling responses to seed limitation and habitat conditions for 14 Neotropical Volume woody species Contents N. NORDEN, J. CHAVE, P. BELBENOIT, A. CAUBERE, P. CHATELET, P.-M. FORGET, B. RIERA, J. VIERS AND C. THEBAUD Volume 97 Number 2 March 2009 Future Directions 199 Refining the stress-gradient hypothesis for competition and facilitation in plant communities F. T. MAESTRE, R. M. CALLAWAY, F. VALLADARES AND C. J. LORTIE Ecological genetics Multigenerational analysis of spatial structure in the terrestrial, food-deceptive orchid Orchis mascula H. JACQUEMYN, T. WIEGAND, K. VANDEPITTE, R. BRYS, 1. ROLDAN-RUIZ AND O. HONNAY Dispersal Seed dispersal by a frugivorous marsupial shapes the spatial scale ofa mistletoe population D. GARCIA, M. A. RODRIGUEZ-CABAL AND G. C. AMICO Invasion ecology Introduction history and species characteristics partly explain naturalization success of North American woody species in Europe \. BUCHAROVA AND M. VAN KLEUNEN Effects of native vegetation on invasion success of Chinese tallow in a floating marsh ecosystem L. L. BATTAGLIA, J. S. DENSLOW, J. R. INCZAUSKIS AND S. G. BAER Non-native grass alters growth of native tree species via leaf and soil microbes J. A. RUDGERS AND S. ORR Plant—population and community dynamics On the emergent spatial structure of size-structured populations: when does self-thinning lead to a reduction in clustering? D. J. MURRELI Detection, survival rates and dynamics of a cryptic plant, Asclepias meadii: applications of mark-recapture models to long-term monitoring studies H. M. ALEXANDER, N. A. SLADE, W. D. KETTLE, G. L. PITTMAN AND A. W. REED Effects of density and ontogeny on size and growth ranks of three competing tree species S. B. BOYDEN, P. B. REICH, K. J. PUETTMANN AND T. R. BAKER Natural disturbance in an old-growth landscape of northern Maine, USA S. FRAVER, A. S. WHITE AND R. S. SEYMOUR Plant—climate interactions and ecophysiology Determinants of cryptogam composition and diversity in Sphagnum-dominated peatlands: the importance of temporal, spatial and functional scales S. I. LANG, J. H. C. CORNELISSEN, A. HOLZER, C. J. F. TER BRAAK, M. AHRENS, T. V. CALLAGHAN AND R. AERTS Seedling root morphology and biomass allocation of 62 tropical tree species in relation to drought- and shade-tolerance L. MARKESTELJN AND L. POORTER Plant—herbivore interactions Light, nutrients and grazing interact to determine diatom species richness via changes to productivity, nutrient state and grazer activity A. LIESS, K. LANGE, F. SCHULZ, 5. J. PIGGOTT, C. D. MATTHAEI AND C. R. TOWNSEND Positive effects of damselfish override negative effects of urchins to prevent an algal habitat switch A. D. IRVING AND J. D. WITMAN Reproductive ecology Evaluation of pollination syndromes in Antillean Gesneriaceae: evidence for bat, hummingbird and generalized flowers S. MARTEN-RODRIGUEZ, A. ALMARALES-CASTRO AND C. B. FENSTER Biological Flora of the British Isles Biological Flora of the British Isles: Orchis mascula (L.) L. H. JACQUEMYN, R. BRYS, O. HONNAY AND M. J. HUTCHINGS . Volume 97 Number3 May 2009 Volume Forum Contents 379 Measuring the importance of competition in plant communities R. P. FRECKLETON, A. R. WATKINSON AND M. REES Invasion ecology Release from foliar and floral fungal pathogen species does not explain the geographic spread of naturalized North American plants in Europe M. VAN KLEUNEN AND M. FISCHER Impact of invasive plants on the species richness, diversity and composition of invaded communities M. HEJDA, P. PYSEK AND V. JAROSIK Ecological genetics/ecogenomics Canopy closure shapes clonal diversity and fine-scale genetic structure in the dioecious understorey perennial Mercurialis perennis K. VANDEPITTE, I. ROLDAN-RUIZ, L. LEUS, H. JACQUEMYN AND O. HONNAY Plant—climate interactions Post-Little Ice Age tree line rise and climate warming in the Swedish Scandes: a landscape ecological perspective L. KULLMAN AND L. OBERG Water and nutrients alter herbaceous competitive effects on tree seedlings in a semi-arid savanna C. VAN DER WAAL, H. DE KROON, W. F. DE BOER, I. M. A. HEITKONIG, A. K. SKIDMORE, H. J. DE KNEGT, F. VAN LANGEVELSD.E E,. VAN WIEREN, R. C. GRANT, B. R. PAGE, R. SLOTOW, E. M. KOHI, E. MWAKIWA AND H. H. T. PRINS Positive effects of soil nitrogen pulses on individuals can have negative consequences for population growth during drought in a herbaceous desert perennial M. S. PEEK AND I. N. FORSETH Frayed at the edges: selective pressure and adaptive response to abiotic stressors are mismatched in low diversity edge populations G. A. PEARSON, A. LAGO-LESTON AND C. MOTA Plant population and community dynamics The stratification theory for plant coexistence promoted by one-sided competition T. KOHYAMA AND T. TAKADA Multi-stemmed trees in montane rain forests: their frequency and demography in relation to elevation, soil nutrients and disturbance P. J. BELLINGHAM AND A. D. SPARROW Establishment and early persistence of tree seedlings in an annually burned savanna J. GIGNOUX, G. LAHOREAU, R. JULLIAR.D AND S. BAROT Physiological responses and statistical models of the environmental niche: a comparative study of two co-occurring Eucalyptus species M. P. AUSTIN, T. M. SMITH, K. P. VAN NIEL AND A. B. WELLINGTON Carbon gain in the competition for light between genotypes of the clonal herb Potentilla reptans P. J. VERMEULEN, J. ©. STUEFER, N. P. R. ANTEN AND H. J. DURING Enhancement of Allee effects in plants due to self-incompatibility alleles D. A. LEVIN, C. D. KELLEY AND S. SARKAR Plant-soil (below-ground) interactions Plant litter chemistry and mycorrhizal roots promote a nitrogen feedback in a temperate forest N. WURZBURGER AND R. L. HENDRICK ectomycorrhizal fungi colonizing Pinus muricata seedlings K. G. PEAMY. G,AR BELOTTO AND T. D. BRUNS Resource and non-resource root competition effects of grasses on early- versus late-successional trees C. MESSIER, L. COLL, A. POITRAS-LARIVIERE, N. BELANGER AND J. BRISSON Reproductive ecology Seed mass, abundance and breeding system among tropical forest species: do dioecious species exhibit compensatory reproduction or abundances? S. A. QUEENBOROUGH, S. J. MAZER, S. M. VAMOSI, N. C. GARWOOD, R. VALENCIA AND R. P. FRECKLETON Density-dependence at multiple scales in experimental and natural plant populations R. M. GUNTON AND W. E. KUNIN Biological Flora of the British Isles Biological Flora of the British Isles: Primula veris L R. BRYS AND H. JACQUEMYN Corrigendum vi Volume 97 Number4 July 2009 Volume Forum Contents 603 Species diversity and productivity: why do results of diversity-manipulation experiments differ from natural patterns? L. JIANG, S.-Q. WAN AND L. H. LI Essay Reviews Plant invasions and the niche \. S. MACDOUGALL, B. GILBERT AND J. M. LEVINE Ecological information from spatial patterns of plants: insights from point process theory R. LAW, J. ILLIAN, D. F. R. P. BURSLEM, G. GRATZER, C. V. S. GUNATILLEKE AND I. A. U. N. GUNATILLEKI Invasion ecology Invasion of Norway spruce (Picea abies) and the rise of the boreal ecosystem in Fennoscandia H. SEPPA, T. ALENIUS, R. H. W. BRADSHAW, T. GIESECKE, M. HEIKKILA AND P. MUUKKONEN Root exudate is allelopathic in invaded community but not in native community: field evidence for the novel weapons hypothesis A. S. THORPE, G. C. THELEN, A. DIACONU AND R. M. CALLAWAY A long-term study of the roles of competition and facilitation in the establishment of an invasive pine following heathland fires J. M. BULLOCK Factors explaining alien plant invasion success in a tropical ecosystem differ at each stage of invasion W. DAWSON, D. F. R. P. BURSLEM AND P. E. HULMI Plant population and community dynamics Linking environmental variation to population dynamics ofa forest herb J. P. DAHLGREN AND J. EHRLEN Which demographic traits determine population growth in the invasive brown seaweed Sargassum muticum? \. ENGELEN AND R. SANTOS Size-dependence of growth and mortality influence the shade tolerance of trees in a lowland temperate rain forest G. KUNSTLER, D. A. COOMES AND C. D. CANHAM Positive biodiversity—productivity relationship due to increased plant density E. MARQUARD, A. WEIGELT, C. ROSCHER, M. GUBSCH, A. LIPOWSKY AND B. SCHMID Determinants of plant community diversity and structure A greater range of shade-tolerance niches in nutrient-rich forests: an explanation for positive richness—productivity relationships? D. A. COOMES, G. KUNSTLER, C. D. CANHAM AND E. WRIGHT Functional traits and prior abundance explain native plant extirpation in a fragmented woodland landscape F. M. SUTTON AND J. W. MORGAN The function of surface fires in the dynamics and structure ofa formerly grazed old subalpine forest \. GENRIES, X. MORIN, S. CHAUCHARD AND C. CARCAILLET Ecological genetics/ecogenomics Local adaptation occurs along altitudinal gradient despite the existence of gene flow in the alpine plant species Festuca eskia H. GONZALO-TURPIN AND L. HAZARD Genetic structure of seedling cohorts following repeated wildfires in the fire-sensitive shrub Persoonia mollis ssp. nectens D. J. AYRE, K. M. OTTEWELL, S. L. KRAUSS AND R. J. WHELAN Ecophysiology and plant—plant interactions Chemical and physical plant defence across multiple ontogenetic stages in a tropical rain forest understorey tree B. L. WEBBER AND I. E. WOODROW Evidence for an ecological cost of enhanced herbicide metabolism in Lolium rigidum M. M. VILA-AIUB, P. NEVE AND S. B. POWLES Plant—-herbivore interactions and below-ground processes Grazer facilitation of fungal infection and the control of plant growth in south-western Atlantic salt marshes P. DALEO, B. SILLIMAN, J. ALBERTI, M. ESCAPA, A. CANEPUCCIA, N. PENA AND O. IRIBARNI Responses of vegetation and soil microbial communities to warming and simulated herbivory in a subarctic heath R. RINNAN, S. STARK AND A. TOLVANEN vii 801 Decomposition in tropical forests: a pan-tropical study of the effects of litter type. litter placement and Volume mesofaunal exclusion across a precipitation gradient Consents J. S. POWERS, R. A. MONTGOMERY, E. C. ADAIR, F. Q. BREARLEY, S. J. DEWALT, C. T. CASTANHO, J. CHAVE, E. DEINERT J. U. GANZHORN, M. E. GILBERT, J. A. GONZALEZ-ITURBE, S. BUNYAVEJCHEWIN, H. R. GRAU, K. E. HARMS, A. HIREMS.A IRTIAHRTE,-V IVAR, E. MANZANE, A. A. DE OLIVEIRA, L. POORTER, J.-B. RAMANAMANJATO. ¢ A. VARELA, G. D. WEIBLEN AND M. T. LERDAI Biological Flora of the British Isles 812 Biological Flora of the British Isles: Primula vulgaris Huds. (P. acaulis (L.) Hill) H. JACQUEMYN, P. ENDELS, R. BRYS, M. HERMY AND S. R. J. WOODELI Volume 97 Number 5 September 2009 Obituary Professor John L. Harper FRS CBE (1925-2009) SPECIAL FEATURE: PLANT-SOIL INTERACTIONS AND THE CARBON CYCLE Editorial: Plant-soil interactions and the carbon cycle R. D. BARDGETT, G. B. DE DEYN AND N. J. OSTLI Essay Review: The changing global carbon cycle: linking plant-soil carbon dynamics to global consequences F. STUART CHAPIN III, J. MCFARLAND, A. D. MCGUIRE, E. S. EUSKIRCHEN, R. W. RUESS AND K. KIELLAND Essay Review: Integrating plant-soil interactions into global carbon cycle models N. J. OSTLE, P. SMITH, R. FISHER, F. IAN WOODWARD, J. B. FISHER, J. U. SMITH, D. GALBRAITH, P LEV i; N. P. MCNAMARA AND R. D. BARDGET1 Vegetation composition promotes carbon and nitrogen storage in model grassland communities of contrasting soil fertility G. B. DE DEYN, H. QUIRK, Z. YI, S. OAKLEY, N. J. OSTLE AND R. D. BARDGETI Grazing triggers soil carbon loss by altering plant roots and their control on soil microbial community K. KLUMPP, S. FONTAINE, E. ATTARD, X. LE ROUX, G. GLEIXNER AND J.-F. SOUSSANA An experimental comparison of chemical traits and litter decomposition rates in a diverse range of subarctic bryophyte, lichen and vascular plant species S. I. LANG, J. H.C. CORNELISSEN, T. KLAHN, R. S.P. VAN LOGTESTUN, R. BROEKMAN, W. SCHWEIKERT AND R. AERTS Soil biota accelerate decomposition in high-elevation forests by specializing in the breakdown of litter produced by the plant species above them E. AYREHS. S,TE LTZER, S. BERG AND D. H. WALI Plant—climate interactions Influence of phylogeny and ploidy on species ranges of North American augiosperms S. L. MARTIN AND B. C. HUSBAND Global patterns in plant height \. T. MOLES, D. I. WARTON, L. WARMAN, N. G. SWENSON, S. W. LAFFAN, A. E. ZANNE, A M. R. LEISHMAN Is there more insect folivory in warmer temperate climates? A latitudinal comparison of insect folivory in eastern North America J. M. ADAMS AND Y. ZHANG Plant-soil (below-ground) interactions Fine root inputs to soil reduce growth of a neighbouring plant via distinct mechanisms dependent on root carbon chemistry C. L. MEIER, K. KEYSERLING AND W. D. BOWMAN Waiting for fungi: the ectomycorrhizal invasion of lowland heathlands F. A. COLLIER AND M. I. BIDARTONDO Towardsa physical description of habitat: quantifying environmental adversity (abiotic stress) in temperate forest and woodland ecosystems B. LADD, S. P. BONSER, P. L. PERI, J. R. LARSEN, S. W. LAFFAN, D. A. PEPPER AND D. L. CENDON Ecophysiology The leafing intensity premium hypothesis tested across clades, growth forms and altitudes R. MILLA Divergent patterns of photosynthetic phosphorus-use efficiency versus nitrogen-use efficiency of tree leaves along nutrient-availability gradients \. HIDAKA AND K. KITAYAMA Plant development and life-history traits 992 Growth properties of 16 non-pioneer rain forest tree species differing in sapling architecture M. AIBA AND T. NAKASHIZUKA 1000 Essay Review: The evolutionary ecology of vegetative dormancy in mature herbaceous perennial plants R. P. SHEFFERSON Vili 1010 Enhanced frugivory on invasive Silene latifolia in its native range due to increased oviposition J. A. ELZINGA AND G. BERNASCONI Volume Contents Plant population and community dynamics 1020 Genotypic selection shapes patterns of within-species diversity in experimental plant populations J, F. STUEFER, N. P. R. ANTEN, H. DE KROON,J . L. PETERS, A. SMIT-TIEKSTRA, P. J. VERMEULEN AND H. J. DURING 1028 Effects of disturbance frequency, species traits and resprouting on directional succession in an individual-based model of forest dynamics P. CAPLAT AND M. ANAND 1037 Seedling establishment shapes the distribution of shade-adapted forest herbs across a topographical moisture gradient M. A. ALBRECHT AND B. C. MCCARTHY 1050 Defoliation and ENSO effects on vital rates of an understorey tropical rain forest palm M. MARTINEZ-RAMOS, N. P. R. ANTEN AND D. D. ACKERLY 1062 Spatio-temporal structure of multi-storied, multi-aged interior Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca) stands V. LEMAY, A. POMMERENING AND P. MARSHALL 1075 Complementarity effects drive positive diversity effects on biomass production in experimental benthic diatom biofilms B. VANELSLANDER, A. DE WEVER, N. VAN OOSTENDE, P. KAEWNURATCHADASORN, P. VANORMELINGEN, F. HENDRICKX, K. SABBE AND W. VYVERMAN 1083 Fresh insights into long-term changes in flora, vegetation, land use and soil erosion in the karstic environment of the Burren, western Ireland I. FEESER AND M. O’CONNELI Biological Flora of the British Isles Biological Flora of the British Isles: Coincyva monensis (L.G) reuter& Burdet ssp. monensis (Rhyncosinapis monensis (L.) Dandy ex A.R. Clapham) and ssp. cheiranthos (Vill.) Aedo, Leadley & Munoz Garm. ( Rhyncosinapis cheiranthos (Vill.) Dandy) C. R. HIPKIN AND P. D. FACE Volume 97 Number 6 November 2009 SPECIAL FEATURE: FACILITATION IN PLANT COMMUNITIES 1117 Editorial: Facilitation in the conceptual melting pot R. W. BROOKER AND R. M. CALLAWAY 1121 Facilitation research in marine systems: state of the art, emerging patterns and insights for future developments F. BULLERI A multitrophic perspective on functioning and evolution of facilitation in plant communities W. H. VAN DER PUTTEN Socialism in soil? The importance of mycorrhizal fungal networks for facilitation in natural ecosystems M. G.A. VAN DER HEIDEN AND T. R. HORTON Parasitic plants as facilitators: more Dryad than Dracula? D. M. WATSON The evolution of facilitation and mutualism J. L. BRONSTEIN Phylogenetic signatures of facilitation and competition in successional communities M. VERDU, P. J. REY, J. M. ALCANTARA, G. SILES AND A. VALIENTE-BANUET Do facilitative interactions increase species richness at the entire community level? L. A. CAVIERES AND E. I. BADANO Effects of facilitation on community stability and dynamics: synthesis and future directions B. J. BUTTERFIELD The role of plant interactions in the restoration of degraded ecosystems: a meta-analysis across life-forms and ecosystems L. GOMEZ-APARICIO Forum Inclusion of biotic stress (consumer pressure) alters predictions from the stress gradient hypothesis C. SMIT, M. RIETKERK AND M. J. WASSEN Essay Review The allometry of reproduction within plant populations J. WEINER, L. G. CAMPBELL, J. PINO AND L. ECHARTI Invasion ecology Catechin—metal interactions as a mechanism for conditional allelopathy by the invasive plant Centaurea maculosa J. L. POLLOCK, R. M. CALLAWAY, G. C. THELEN AND W. E. HOLBEN 1X Phyloecology of urban alien floras Volume C. RICOTTA, F. A. LA SORTE, P. PYSEK, G. L. RAPSON, L. CELESTI-GRAPOW AND K. THOMPSON Destruction without extinction: long-term impacts of an invasive tree species on Galapagos highland Contents vegetation H. JAGER, I. KOWARIK AND A. TY! Direct and indirect effects of viral pathogens and the environment on invasive grass fecundity in Pacific Coast grasslands E. W. SEABLOOM, E. T. BORER, A. JOLLES AND C. E. MITCHELI Plant-soil (below-ground) interactions Plant and fungal identity determines pathogen protection of plant roots by arbuscular mycorrhizas B. A. SIKES, K. COTTENIE AND J. N. KLIRONOMOS Plant—soil feedback induces shifts in biomass allocation in the invasive plant Chromolaena odorata M. TE BEEST, N. STEVENS, H. OLFF AND W. H. VAN DER PUTTEN Mycorrhizal community resilience in response to experimental plant functional type removals ina woody ecosystem C. URCELAY, S. DIADZ. E,. GURVIFC.H S,. CHAPIN III, E. CUEVAS AND L. S. DOMINGUEZ Determinants of plant diversity and structure Animal disturbances promote shrub maintenance in a desertified grassland D. J. ELDRIDGE, W. G. WHITFORD AND B. D. DUVAI Parasite-grass—forb interactions and rock—paper-scissor dynamics: predicting the effects of the parasitic plant Rhinanthus minor on host plant communities D. D. CAMERON, A. WHITE AND J. ANTONOVICS A unified measure of the number, volume and diversity of dead trees and the response of fungal communities J. HOTTOLA, O. OVASKAINEN AND I. HANSKI Human influence lowers plant genetic diversity in communities with extinction debt A. HELM, T. OJA, L. SAAR, K. TAKKIS, T. TALVE AND M. PARTE Plant population and community dynamics Local versus landscape-scale effects of savanna trees on grasses C. RIGINOS, J. B. GRACE, D. J. AUGUSTINE AND T. P. YOUNG Abiotic and biotic drivers of seedling survival in a hurricane-impacted tropical forest L. S. COMITA, M. URIARTE, J. THOMPSON, I. JONCKHEERE, C. D. CANHAM AND J. K. ZIMMERMAN Response of recruitment to light availability across a tropical lowland rainforest community N. RUGER, A. HUTH, S. P. HUBBELL AND R. CONDI Testing the Metabolic Scaling Theory of tree growth D. A. COOMES AND R. B. ALLEN Trade-offs in resource allocation that favour resprouting affect the competitive ability of woody seedlings in grassy communities P. J. CLARKE AND K. J. E. KNOX Factors affecting detection probability in plant distribution studies G. CHEN, M. KERY, J. ZHANG AND K. MA Geographic variation in dynamics of an annual plant with a seed bank H. M. ALEXANDER, D. PILSON, J. MOODY-WEIS AND N. A. SLADI Positive interactions can increase size inequality in plant populations C.-J. CHU, J. WEINER, F. T. MAESTRE, S. XIAO, Y.-S. WANG, Q. LI, J.-L. YUAN, L.-Q. ZHAO, Z.-W. REN AND G. WANG Plant—climate intractions 1408 Winter warming events damage sub-Arctic vegetation: consistent evidence from an experimental manipulation and a natural event S. F. BOKHORST, J. W. BJIERKE, H. TOMMERVIK, T. V. CALLAGHAN AND G. K. PHOENIX Plant—herbivore intractions and dispersal Pre-dispersal acorn predation in mixed oak forests: interspecific differences are driven by the interplay among seed phenology, seed size and predator size J. M. ESPELTA, R. BONAL AND B. SANCHEZ-HUMANES Maternal genetic correlations in the seed rain: effects of frugivore activity in heterogeneous landscapes C. GARCIA, P. JORDANO, J. M. ARROYO AND J. A. GODOY Biological Flora of the British Isles Biological Flora of the British Isles: Urtica dioica | K. TAYLOR [reeaeterp ne e e Thanks to referees