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                  Preface: Editorial
                
                
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                  Article: Soil characteristics and Chusquea bamboos in the Quercus forests of the Cordillera de Talamanca, Costa Rica
                
                
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                  Article: Lemna yungensis, a new duckweed species from rocks of the Andean Yungas in Bolivia
                
                
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                  Article: Does mowing in summer reduce the abundance of common reed (Phragmites australis)?
                
                
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                  Article: Habitat use of foraging skylarks (Alauda arvensis L.) in an arable landscape with wild flower strips
                
                
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                  Article: Review : Notes on the ecological restoration of fen meadows, ombrogenous bogs and rivers : definitions, techniques, problems
                
                
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                  Article: Research Note : the appearance of two duckweed species in sewage effluents in Yaoundé (Cameroon), and their possible use for sewage treatment and feed production
                
                
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                  Article: Research Note : Untersuchungen zur Trollius - Chiastocheta-Interaktion in kleinen, isolierten Pflanzenpopulationen
                
                
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                  Article: Research Note : the N:P ratio and the nutrient limitation of wetland plants
                
                
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                  Article: Research Project : zur relativen Bedeutung von Nährstoffeintrag und Wasserstand für die Biodiversität in Streuwiesen
                
                
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                  Article: Research Project : testing speciation mechanisms in orchids witz molecular and ecological methods
                
                
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                  Rubric: Summaries of diploma and PhD theses (1997)
                
                
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                  Association News: Annual report of the Geobotanical Institute ETH (1997)
                
                
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