Plant Responses to Air Pollution -- Metabolism of atmospheric sulfur gases in onion -- Impact of atmospheric NH3 deposition on plant growth and functioning — a case study with Brassica oleracea L. -- How sensitive are forest trees to ozone? - New research on an old issue -- Northern conditions enhance the susceptibility of birch (Betula pendula Roth) to oxidative stress caused by ozone -- Phy…
History and Environment of the Nordic Mountain Birch -- Soils and Nutrients in Northern Mountain Birch Forests: A Case Study from Finnmarksvidda, Northern Norway -- Vegetation of the Mountain Birch Forest in Northern Fennoscandia -- Biomass and Production on a Landscape Level in the Mountain Birch Forests -- Mountain Birch Growth in Relation to Climate and Herbivores -- Effects of Temperature C…
Sustainable Development: The Contribution by Biosphere Reserves -- MAB — a Programme over the Course of Time -- World Network of Biosphere Reserves -- Biosphere Reserves: Model Regions for the Future -- The Network of Biosphere Reserves in Germany -- New Concepts for the Model Regions -- People and Cultures in Biosphere Reserves -- From Environmental Education to Learning for Sustainability -…
Litter Dynamics -- Litter Input -- Leaf Retention -- Manipulation of Stream Retentiveness -- Coarse Benthic Organic Matter -- Leaching -- Leaf Mass Loss Estimated by Litter Bag Technique -- Coarse Particulate Organic Matter Budgets -- Leaf Chemical And Physical Properties -- Determination of Total Nitrogen and Phosphorus in Leaf Litter -- Total Protein -- Free Amino Acids -- Determination of To…
General description of partly meromictic hypertrophic Lake Verevi, its ecological status, changes during the past eight decades, and restoration problems -- Water and nutrient mass balance of the partly meromictic temperate Lake Verevi -- Distribution of sediment phosphorus fractions in hypertrophic strongly stratified Lake Verevi -- Optical properties and light climate in Lake Verevi -- Sedime…
In search of an operational lexicon for biological invasions -- Ecological aspects -- The ecology of biological invasions: past, present and future -- Ecological niche models and the geography of biological invasions: a review and a novel application -- Importance of species replication in understanding plant invasions into North American grasslands -- Residence time determines the distribution…
Integration of ecophysiological processes to stand dynamics -- Plant responses to elevated CO2 concentration at different scales: leaf, whole plant, canopy, and population -- Abies population dynamics simulated using a functional-structural tree model -- Estimation of aboveground biomass and net biomass increment in a cool temperate forest on a landscape scale -- Latitudinal/altitudinal transec…
The Functional Significance of Forest Diversity: The Starting Point -- An Introduction to the Functional Diversity of Temperate Forest Trees -- Productivity and Growth -- Diversity and Productivity in Forests: Evidence from Long-Term Experimental Plots -- Confounding Factors in the Observational Productivity-Diversity Relationship in Forests -- Genetic Diversity Parameters Associated with Viabi…
Challenges and Conceptual Approaches -- Ecosystem Function in Heterogeneous Landscapes -- Causes and Consequences of Spatial Heterogeneity in Ecosystem Function -- The Template: Patterns and Processes of Spatial Variation -- Thoughts on the Generation and Importance of Spatial Heterogeneity in Ecosystems and Landscapes -- Reciprocal Cause and Effect Between Environmental Heterogeneity and Trans…
The paleoenvironmental context -- Distribution -- Mapping -- Exogenic and endogenic controls -- Coral Biology -- Diversity -- Environmental archive -- Conservation.Following the exciting exploration of hot vent and cold seep ecosystems, the rediscovery of cold-water coral ecosystems with high-technology instrumentation is currently another hot topic in multidisciplinary marine research. Convent…