Forest Ecology, 2009 Recent Advances in Plant Ecology

Quantitative classification and carbon density of the forest vegetation in Lüliang Mountains of China.- Effects of introduced ungulates on forest understory communities in northern Patagonia are modified by timing and severity of stand mortality.- Tree species richness and composition 15 years after strip clear-cutting in the Peruvian Amazon.- Changing relationships between tree growth and climate in Northwest China.- Does leaf-level nutrient-use efficiency explain Nothofagus-dominance of some tropical rain forests in New Caledonia?.- Dendroecological study of a subalpine fir (Abies fargesii) forest in the Qinling Mountains, China.- A conceptual model of sprouting responses in relation to fire damage: an example with cork oak (Quercus suber L.) trees in Southern Portugal.- Non-woody life-form contribution to vascular plant species richness in a tropical American forest.- Relationships between spatial configuration of tropical forest patches and woody plant diversity in northeastern Puerto Rico.- Vascular diversity patterns of forest ecosystem before and after a 43-year interval under changing climate conditions in the Changbaishan Nature Reserve, northeastern China.- Gap-scale disturbance processes in secondary hardwood stands on the Cumberland Plateau, Tennessee, USA.- Plurality of tree species responses to drought perturbation in Bornean tropical rain forest.- Red spruce forest regeneration dynamics across a gradient from Acadian forest to old field in Greenwich, Prince Edward Island National Park, Canada.- Distance- and density-dependent seedling mortality caused by several diseases in eight tree species co-occurring in a temperate forest.- Response of native Hawaiian woody species to lava-ignited wildfires in tropical forests and shrublands.- Evaluating different harvest intensities over understory plant diversity and pine seedlings, in a Pinus pinaster Ait. natural stand of Spain.- Land-use history affects understorey plant species distributions in a large temperate-forest complex, Denmark.- Short-term responses of the understory to the removal of plant functional groups in the cold-temperate deciduous forest.- Host trait preferences and distribution of vascular epiphytes in a warm-temperate forest.- Seed bank composition and above-ground vegetation in response to grazing in sub-Mediterranean oak forests (NW Greece).- On the detection of dynamic responses in a drought-perturbed tropical rainforest in Borneo.- Changes in tree and liana communities along a successional gradient in a tropical dry forest in south-eastern Brazil.- Woody plant composition of forest layers: the importance of environmental conditions and spatial configuration.- The importance of clonal growth to the recovery of Gaultheria procumbens L. (Ericaceae) after forest disturbance.- Species richness and resilience of forest communities: combined effects of short-term disturbance and long-term pollution.- Hurricane disturbance in a temperate deciduous forest: patch dynamics, tree mortality, and coarse woody detritus.