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The following essay reviews have been published in Journal of Ecology. Abstracts of most papers marked * are available free of charge to anyone registering with Synergy (access to Synergy is username and password controlled and a link is therefore only possible to the login page (www.blackwell-synergy.com). Full text of these papers is available to subscribers to the electronic version of the Journal and of earlier papers to subscribers to JSTOR. Both collections are readily searchable by author.

* Dispersal limitation may result in the unimodal productivity-diversity relationship: a new explanation for a general pattern MEELIS PARTEL & MARTIN ZOBEL

* Ecogenomic approach to the role of herbivore-induced plant volatiles in community ecology
TJEERD SNOEREN, PETER DE JONG & MARCEL DICKE

* Quantitative estimation of phenotypic plasticity: bridging the gap between the evolutionary concept and its ecological applications F. VALLADARES, DAVID SANCHEZ-GOMEZ & MIGUEL ZAVALA

* Response of the Herbaceous Layer of Forest Ecosystems to Excess Nitrogen Deposition
FRANK S. GILLIAM

* The rough edges of the conservation genetics paradigm for plants
JOOP OUBORG, PHILIPPINE VERGEER & CAROLIN MIX

* How general are positive relationships between plant population size, fitness, and genetic variation?
ROOSA LEIMU, PIA MUTIKAINEN, JULIA KORICHEVA & MARKUS FISCHER

* Why are there so many small plants? Implications for species co-existence
LONNIE W. AARSSEN, BRANDON S. SCHAMP & JASON PITHER

* Meta analysis andrejection of the stress-gradient hypothesis? Analytical recommendations
C.J. LORTIE & R.M. CALLAWAY

* Reconciling plant strategy theories of Grime and Tilman
J. CRAINE

* Is the change of plant-plant interactions with abiotic stress predictable? A meta-analysis of field results in arid environments
F.T. MAESTRE, F. VALLADARES & J.F. REYNOLDS

* Understanding mutualism where there is adapatation to the partner
C. DE MAZANCOURT, M. LOREAU & U. DIECKMANN

* Improving competition representation in theoretical models of self-thinning: a critical review
J.H. REYNOLDS & E.D. FORD

*A biogeographical approach to plant invasions: the importance of studying invaders in their introduced and native range
J.L. HIERRO, J.L. MARON & R.M. CALLAWAY

*Linking physiological traits to impacts on community structure and function: the role of root hemi-parasitic Orobanchaceae (ex-Schophulariaceae)
G.K. PHOENIX and M.C. PRESS

*Indices of plant competition
A. WEIGELT and P. A. JOLLIFFE

*Forecasting plant migration rates: managing uncertainty for risk assessment
S. I. HIGGINS, J. S. CLARK, R. NATHAN, T. HOVESTADT, F. SCHURR, J. M. V. FRAGOSO, M. R. AGUIAR, E. RIBBENS and S. LAVOREL

* Large-scale spatial dynamics of plants: metapopulations, regional ensembles and patchy populations
R. P. FRECKLETON & A. R. WATKINSON

* The replacement series
P. A. JOLLIFFE

* Ecological gradients, subdivisions and terminology of north-west European mires
B. D. WHEELER & M. C. F. PROCTOR

* Population genetics, molecular markers and the study of dispersal in plants
N.J. OUBORG, Y. PIQUOT & J.M. VAN GROENENDAEL

* Designs for greenhouse studies of interactions between plants
D.J. GIBSON, J. CONNOLLY, D. C. HARTNETT & J. D. WEIDENHAMER

Benefits of plant diversity to ecosystems: immediate, filter and founder effects
J. P. GRIME 

The effects of air-borne nitrogen pollutants on species diversity in natural and semi-natural European vegetation
R. BOBBINK, M. HORNUNG & J. G.M. ROELOFS

Host-pathogen dynamics in a metapopulation context: the ecological and evolutionary consequences of being spatial
P. H. THRALL & J. J. BURDON

On the relative importance of competition in unproductive environments
D. GOLDBERG & A. NOVOPLANSKY

General patterns of age-by-stage distributions
DOUGLAS H. BOUCHER

Plants and hormones: an ecophysiological view on timing and plasticity
L.A.C.J. VOESENEK & C.W.P.M. BLOM

A metapopulation perspective in plant population biology
B.C. HUSBAND & S.C.H BARRETT

Chaos, cycles and spatio-temporal dynamics in plant ecology
S. EZRATI

Nutrient resorption from senescing leaves of perennials: are there general patterns
R AERTS

Redefining seed dormancy: an attempt to integrate physiology and ecology
L. VLEESHOUWERS, H. BOUWMEESTER &, C. KARSSEN

Phosphorus inputs to terrestrial ecosystems
E.I. NEWMAN

Morphological plasticity in clonal plants: the foraging concept reconsidered
H. DE KROON & M.J. HUTCHINGS

Predicting dispersal spectra: a minimal set of hypotheses based on plant attributes
L. HUGHES, M. DUNLOP, K. FRENCH, M.R. LEISHMAN, B. RICE, L. RODGERSON & M. WESTOBY.

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