Submissions from 2004
Gap characteristics and regeneration in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda, D Babaasa, G Eilu, A Kasangaki, R Bitariho, and A McNeilage
Alpha and beta diversity of lianas in Yasuni, Ecuador, R Burnham
Allee effect in an invasive alien plant, pale swallow-wort Vincetoxicum rossicum (Asclepiadaceae), N Cappuccino
Discrimination of lianas and trees with leaf-level hyperspectral data, K Castro-Esau, G Sanchez-Azofeifa, and T Caelli
Effects of small rodents and large mammals on Neotropical seeds, E DeMattia, L Curran, and B Rathcke
Structure and biomass of four lowland Neotropical forests, S DeWalt and J Chave
Seedling emergence, growth, and allocation of Oriental bittersweet: effects of seed input, seed bank, and forest floor litter, J Ellsworth, R Harrington, and J Fownes
Demography and potential extractive use of the liana palm, Desmoncus orthacanthos Martius (Arecaceae), in southern Quintana Roo, Mexico, S Escalante, C Montana, and R Orellana
Development and growth form of a neotropical liana Croton nuntians: The effect of light and mode of attachment on the biomechanics of the stem, F Gallenmiller, N Rowe, and T Speck
Incidence of leaf pathogens in the canopy of a Mexican tropical wet forest, G Garcia-Guzman and R Dirzo
Liana allometric biomass equations for Amazonian primary and secondary forest, C Gehring, S Park, and M Denich
Evolution of a climbing habit promotes diversification in flowering plants, E Gianoli
Morphological plasticity in response to shading in three Convolvulus species of different ecological breadth, A Gonzalez and E Gianoli
Convergence in the leaf shape of vines: A test of the Carolina flora using phylogenetic comparative methods, C Goodwillie, M May, J West, and C McKeon
Effects of lianas on growth and regeneration of Prioria copaifera in Darien, Panama, W Grauel and F Putz
Inbreeding influences herbivory in Cucurbita pepo ssp. texana (Cucurbitaceae), C Hayes, J Winsor, and A Stephenson
Ecology of two selected liana species of utility value in a lowland rain forest of Sri Lanka: implications for management, H Kathriarachchi, K Tennakoon, C Gunatilleke, I Gunatilleke, and P Ashton
Through enhanced tree dynamics carbon dioxide enrichment may cause tropical forests to lose carbon, C Korner
Climbers and logging in the Forêt Classée du Haut-Sassandra, Côte-d’Ivoire, F Kouame, F Bongers, L Poorter, and D Traore
Recruitment limitation in secondary forests dominated by an exotic tree, J Lichstein, H Grau, and R Aragon
The north-east-Brazilian liana, Adenocalymna dichilum (Bignoniaceae) pollinated by bats, I Machado and S Vogel
Liana diversity, abundance, and mortality in a tropical wet forest in Costa Rica, J Mascaro, SA Schnitzer, and WP Carson
Beautes fatales: Acanthaceae species as invasive alien plants on tropical Indo-Pacific Islands, J-Y Meyer and C Lavergne
Demography of Machaerium cuspidatum, a shade-tolerant neotropical liana, J Nabe-Nielsen
Patterns of liana diversity in tropical evergreen forests of peninsular India, N Parthasarathy, S Muthuramkumar, and M Sridhar Reddy
Community ecology and management of lianas, D Perez-Salicrup, SA Schnitzer, and F Putz
Pattern and process in Amazon tree turnover, 1976-2001, O Phillips, T Baker, L Arroyo, N Higuchi, T Killeen, W Laurance, S Lewis, J Lloyd, Y Malhi, and A Monteagudo
Seedling growth dynamics of a deeply rooting liana in a secondary forest in eastern Amazonia, T Restom and D Nepstad
Liana abundance in a Puerto Rican forest, K Rice, N Brokaw, and J Thompson
Diversity of mechanical architectures in climbing plants: An evolutionary perspective, N Rowe, S Isnard, and T Speck
Recruitment of lianas into logging gaps and the effects of pre-harvest climber cutting in a lowland forest in Cameroon, SA Schnitzer, MPE Parren, and F Bongers
Demographic effects of collecting rattan cane and their implications for sustainable harvesting, S Siebert
General herbivore outbreak following an El Niño-related drought in a lowland Panamanian forest, S van Bael, A Aiello, V A, E Medianero, M Samaniego, and S Wright
Are lianas increasing in importance in tropical forests? A 17-year record from Panam√°, S Wright, O Calderon, A Hernandez, and S Paton
Invasion impacts local species turnover in a successional system, K Yurkonis and S Meiners
Submissions from 2003
Response of an understory plant community to elevated [CO2] depends on differential responses of dominant invasive species and is mediated by soil water availability, R Belote, J Weltzen, and R Norby
Impact of forest fragmentation on understory plant species richness in Amazonia, J Benitez-Malvido and M Martinez-Ramos
Spatial and temporal variation of biomass in a tropical forest: results from a large census plot in Panama, J Chave, R Condit, S Lao, J Caspersen, R Foster, and S Hubbell
In vivo magnetic resonance imaging of xylem vessel contents in woody lianas, M Clearwater and C Clark
Elephants versus butterflies: the ecological role of large herbivores in the evolutionary history of two tropical worlds, C Cristoffer and C Peres
Pioneer and climax tree regeneration following selective logging with silviculture in Suriname, M Dekker and N de Graaf
Changes in vegetation structure and composition along a tropical forest chronosequence: implications for wildlife, S DeWalt, S Maliakal, and J Denslow
Medullosa steinii sp. nov., a seed fern vine from the Upper Mississippian, M Dunn, M Krings, G Mapes, G Rothwell, R Mapes, and S Keqin
Strategies of tree occupation at a local scale in terra firme forests in the Colombian Amazon, A Duque, J Cavelier, and A Posada
Genetic isolation and diffusion of wild grapevine Italian and Spanish Populations as estimated by nuclear and chloroplast SSR analysis, F Grassi, S Imazio, O Failla, A Scienza, R Rubio, M Lopez, F Sala, and M Labra
Does elevated CO2 facilitate naturalization of the non-indigenous Prunus laurocerasus in Swiss temperate forests?, S Hättenschwiler and C Krrner
Mechanical, chemical and X-ray analysis of wood in the two tropical lianas Bauhinia guianensis and Condylocarpon guianense: variations during ontogeny, B Hoffmann, B Chabbert, B Monties, and T Speck
Resprouting of woody saplings following stem snap by wild pigs in a Malaysian rain forest, K Ickes, S DeWalt, and S Thomas
Growth habit and mechanical architecture of the sand dune-adapted climber Clematis flammula var. maritima L., S Isnard, N Rowe, and T Speck
Mechanical architecture and development in Clematis: implications for canalised evolution of growth forms, S Isnard, T Speck, and N Rowe
Ecological observations on Heteropsis spp. (Araceae) in Southern Venezuela, C Knab-Vispo, B Hoffman, T Moermond, and C Vispo
How paleozoic vines and lianas got off the ground: On scrambling and climbing carboniferous early permian pteridosperms, M Krings, H Kerp, T Taylor, and E Taylor
Climate change and biotic invasions: A case history of a tropical woody vine, D Kriticos, R Sutherst, J Brown, S Adkins, and G Maywald
Soil seed banks and the potential restoration of forested wetlands after farming, B Middleton
Diversity and host tree preferences of vascular epiphytes and vines in a temperate rainforest in southern Chile, A Munoz, P Chacon, F Perez, E Barnert, and J Armesto
The ecology and harvest potential of titica vine roots (Heteropsis flexuosa: Araceae) in the eastern Brazilian Amazon, C Plowden, C Uhl, and F Oliveira
Rain forest expansion mediated by successional processes in vegetation thickets in the Western Ghats of India, J-P Puyravaud, C Dufour, and S Aravajy
Composition and structure of seasonally deciduous forests in the Americas, M Quigley and W Platt
Woody species diversity of four sacred groves in the Pondicherry region of South India, M Ramanujam and K Cyril
Recovery of biomass following shifting cultivation in dry tropical forests of the Yucatan, L Read and D Lawrence
Liana diversity and distribution in four tropical dry evergreen forests on the Coromandel coast of south India, M Reddy and N Parthasarathy
Stem vascular architecture in the American climbing palm Desmoncus (Arecaceae-Arecoideae-Bactridinae), P Tomlinson and M Zimmermann
Biological invaders in a greenhouse world: will elevated CO2 fuel plant invasions?, J Weltzin, R Belote, and N Sanders
Submissions from 2002
Community-level consequences of a plant invasion: effects on three habitats in coastal California, M Alvarez and J Cushman
The flora of Penikese Island, Massachusetts: The fifth survey (1998-1999), with emphasis on the woody vegetation., R Backus, P Polloni, B Reid, P Somers, and T Hendrickson
Interactions between weaver ants Oecophylla smaragdina, homopterans, trees and lianas in an Australian rain forest canopy, N Bluthgen and K Fiedler
The importance of lianas and consequences for forest management in West Africa, F Bongers, S Schnitzer, and D Traore
Dominance, diversity and distribution of lianas in Yasuní, Ecuador: who is on top?, R Burnham
Host associations of lianas in a south-east Queensland rain forest, L Carsten, F Juola, T Male, and S Cherry
Does weeding promote regeneration of an indigenous tree community in felled pine plantations in Uganda?, C Chapman, L Chapman, A Zanne, and M Burgess
Shade promotes thorn development in a tropical liana, Artabotrys hexapetalus (Annonaceae), J Fisher, U Posluszny, and D Lee
Xylem of rattans: Vessel dimensions in climbing palms, J Fisher, H Tan, and L Toh
Effect of skidder disturbance on commercial tree regeneration in logging gaps in a Bolivian tropical forest, T Fredericksen and W Pariona
Degradation of forests through logging and fire in the eastern Brazilian Amazon, J Gerwing
Pre-logging liana cutting reduces liana regeneration in logging gaps in the eastern Brazilian Amazon, J Gerwing and C Uhl
Changes in liana abundance and species diversity eight years after liana cutting and logging in an eastern Amazonian forest, J Gerwing and E Vidal
In deep shade, elevated CO2 increases the vigor of tropical climbing plants, J Granados and C Korner
Phylogeography of the common ivy (Hedera sp.) in Europe: genetic differentiation through space and time, D Grivet and R Petit
Liana seedling growth in response to fertilisation in a neotropical forest understorey, S Hattenschwiler
Landscape variation of liana communities in a Neotropical rain forest, G Ibarra-Manriquez and M Martinez-Ramos
Taxonomic diversity of lianas and vines in forest fragments of southern Togo, K Kokou, P Couteron, A Martin, and G Caballe
Characterization of new microsatellite loci from Vitis vinifera and their conservation in some Vitis species and hybrids, F Lefort, C Kyvelos, M Zervou, K Edwards, and K Roubelakis-Angelakis
Secretory trichomes, a substitutive floral nectar source in Lundia A. DC. (Bignoniaceae), a genus lacking a functional disc, A Lopes, S Vogel, and I Machado
Accumulation of plant small heat-stress proteins in storage organs, O Lubaretz and U zur Nieden
Exotic plant invasions over 40 years of old field succession: community patterns and associations, S Meiners, S Handel, and S Pickett
Life form, habitat, and nutritional mode of the flowering plants of central French Guiana, S Mori, E Hecklau, and T Kirchgessner
Growth and mortality rates of the liana Machaerium cuspidatum in relation to light and topographic position, J Nabe-Nielsen
Environmentally induced clonal reproduction and life history traits of the liana Machaerium cuspidatum in an Amazonian rain forest, Ecuador, J Nabe-Nielsen and P Hall
Total aboveground biomass in central Amazonian rainforests: a landscape-scale study, H Nascimento and W Laurance
Increasing dominance of large lianas in Amazonian forests, O Phillips, R Vasquez Martinez, L Arroyo, T Baker, T Killeen, S Lewis, Y Malhi, A Monteagudo Mendoza, D Neill, and P Nuñez V.
Reproductive phenology, life-forms and habitats of the Venezuelan Central Plain, N Ramirez
Horizontal distribution of stolons of a temperate liana Wisteria floribunda DC. and its ecological significance, A Sakai, H Nomiya, and W Suzuki
The ecology of lianas and their role in forests, SA Schnitzer and F Bongers
Medical ethnobotany of the tribals of Sonaghati of Sonbhadra district, Uttar Pradesh, India, A Singh, A Raghubanshi, and J Singh
Liana diversity and reproductive attributes in two tropical forests in Mexico, S Solorzano, G Ibarra-Manriquez, and K Oyama
Developmental features of the discontinuous stem vascular system in the rattan palm Calamus (Arecaceae- Calamoideae- Calamineae), P Tomlinson and R Spangler