| Front matter | _ | 
            
              | Preface: Editorial | _ | 
            
              | Article: Soil characteristics and Chusquea bamboos in the Quercus forests of the Cordillera de Talamanca, Costa Rica | 3 | 
            
              | Article: Lemna yungensis, a new duckweed species from rocks of the Andean Yungas in Bolivia | 15 | 
            
              | Article: Does mowing in summer reduce the abundance of common reed (Phragmites australis)? | 23 | 
            
              | Article: Habitat use of foraging skylarks (Alauda arvensis L.) in an arable landscape with wild flower strips | 37 | 
            
              | Article: Review : Notes on the ecological restoration of fen meadows, ombrogenous bogs and rivers : definitions, techniques, problems | 47 | 
            
              | 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 | 63 | 
            
              | Article: Research Note : Untersuchungen zur Trollius - Chiastocheta-Interaktion in kleinen, isolierten Pflanzenpopulationen | 69 | 
            
              | Article: Research Note : the N:P ratio and the nutrient limitation of wetland plants | 77 | 
            
              | Article: Research Project : zur relativen Bedeutung von Nährstoffeintrag und Wasserstand für die Biodiversität in Streuwiesen | 91 | 
            
              | Article: Research Project : testing speciation mechanisms in orchids witz molecular and ecological methods | 103 | 
            
              | Rubric: Summaries of diploma and PhD theses (1997) | 109 | 
            
              | Association News: Annual report of the Geobotanical Institute ETH (1997) | 137 | 
            
              | Advertising | 147 | 
            
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