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Some typical topics for Forum papers

The following list is intended to give a flavour of the discussions that have been published in Forum. Full text of papers marked * is available to subscribers to the electronic version of the Journal on Synergy (access is username and password controlled and a link is therefore only possible to the login page) and earlier papers are available to subscribers to Jstor. Both collections are readily searchable by author.

* Plant strategy theories: a comment on Craine (2005)
J. PHILIP GRIME

* Anoperational, additive framework for species diversity partitioning and beta-diversity analysis
RAPHAËL PÉLISSIER and PIERRE COUTERON

* The controversy over traits conferring shade-tolerance in trees: ontogenetic changes revisited
ULO NIINEMETS

* Placing local plant species richness in the context of environmental drivers of metacommunity richness
M.H. STEVENS

* Herbivory influences tree lines
J. MOEN & D.M. CAIRNS

* Ribosomal RNA gene sequence diversity in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Glomeromycota)
J.P. CLAPP, J.C. DODD & A. RODRIGUEZ

* Why do pollination generalist and specialist plant species show similar reproductive susceptibility to habitat fragmentation?
L. ASHWORTH, R. AGUILAR, L. GALETTO, M. A. AIZEN

* The ghost of competition past in the phylogeny of island endemic plants
J. SILVERTOWN

* Species-area relationships at small scales in continuum vegetation
M. WILLIAMSON

*Probing the primacy of the patch: what makes a metapopulation?
J. R. PANNELL, D. J. OBBARD

* Primary community assembly on land-the missing stages: why are the heterotrophic organisms always there first?
I. D. HODKINSON, N. R. WEBB & S. J. COULSON

* Fluctuating resources in plant communities: a general theory of invasibility
M. A. DAVIS, J. P. GRIME & K. THOMPSON

* On integrating molecular and ecological studies of plant resistance: variety of mechanisms and breadth of antagonists
P. E. HATCHER & N. D. PAUL

* Different strategies for studying ecological aspects of systemic acquired resistance (SAR)
M. HEIL

* Random foraging by herbivores: complex patterns may be due to plant architecture
S. NEUVONEN

* The core-satellite species hypothesis provides a theoretical basis for Grime's classification of dominant, subordinate, and transient species
D.J. GIBSON, J.S. ELY & S.L. COLLINS

* Serotinous species show correlation between retention time for leaves and cones
J. J. MIDGLEY & N. J. ENRIGHT

Evolution of increased competitive ability in invasive nonindigenous plants: a hypothesis
B. BLOSSEY & R. NOTZOLD

Incorporating the soil community into plant population dynamics: the utility of the feedback approach
J. D. BEVER, K. M. WESTOVER & J. ANTONOVICS

Mathematical constraints on transition matrix elasticity analysis
MARIO BASILIO DE MATOS & DALVA M. SILVA MATOS

Phylogeny and ecology reconsidered
D.D. ACKERLY & M.J. DONOGHUE

Why ecologists need to be phylogenctically challenged
P.H. HARVEY, A.F. READ & S. NEE

Issues of interpretation after relating comparative datasets to phylogeny
M. WESTOBY, M. LEISHMAN & J. LORD

Species redundancy: a redundant concept?
H. GITAY, J.B. WILSON& W.G. LEE

Herbivory, plant regeneration and species coexistence
P.E. HULME

Do insect pests promote mutualism among tropical trees?
E.G. LEIGH Jr.

Is the humped relationship between species richness and biomass an artefact due to plot size?
J. OKSANEN

The humped relationship between species richness and biomass - testing its sensitivity to sample quadrat size
G. L. RAPSON, K. THOMPSON, J. G. HODGSON

The relationship between diversity and productivity in plant communities: facts and artefacts
T. MARAÑÓN & L.V. GARCÍA

Quantifying the impact of arbuscular mycorrhiza on plant competition
A. R. WATKINSON & R. P. FRECKLETON

The interpretation and misinterpretation of mortality rate measures
D. SHIEL, D.F.R.P. BURSLEM & D. ALDER

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