Plant Conservation

The ecology of extinctions in kelp forest communities; paleoecology and the coarse-filter approach to maintaining biological diversity; the role of climatic change in the design of biological reserves - the paleoecological perspective for conservation biology; species migrations and ecosystem stability during climate change - the below-ground connection; how enriched carbon-dioxide environments may alter biotic systems even in the absence of climate changes; plant taxonomic research, with special reference to the tropics - problems and potential solutions; quantitative ethnobotany and the case for conservation in Amazonia; using vegetation analysis to facilitate the selection of conservation sites in Eastern Paraguay; how many plants feed the world?; peasant agriculture and the conservation of crop and wild plant resources; rethinking crop genetic resource conservation - a view from the South (Altieri); rejoinder to Altieri (brush); radish as a model system for the study of engineered gene escape rates via crop-weed mating; nurse plant and floral biology of a rare night-blooming cereus, peniocereus striatus (brandegee); seed germination percentgage increases with population size in a fragmented prairie species; pollination in dianthus deltoides (caryophyllaceae) - effects of habitat fragmentation on visitation and seed set; relationship of breeding system to rarity in the lakeside daisy (hymenoxys acaulis var glabra); genetic variation in the extreme endemic pedicularis furbishiae (scrophulariaceae); population viability analysis for an endangered plant; lack of genetic diversity within and among populations of an endangered plant, howellia aquatilis; are small populations of plants worth preserving?; trilepidea adamsii - an obituary for a species; the nasty necessity - eradicating exotics, Temple; removal of exotic organisms, Lugo; a response to Temple and Lugo (Coblentz); more on exotic species, Lugo; do Appalachian herbaceous understories ever recover from clearcutting?; vegetation diversity after logging in the Southern Appalachians, Elliot, Loftis and Steinbeck; herbs and clearcutting - reply to Elliot, Loftis and Steinbeck; the effects of clearcutting on herbaceous understories are still not fully known, Johnson et al; seeing the forest for the trees - response to Johnson et al; logging and fragmentation of broad-leaved deciduous forests - are we asking the right ecological questions?; disturbance, diversity and invasion - implications for conservation.