Table of Contents for Volume 157(1), January 2007

• Population Density and Patch Size:  A Field Study of Within and Between Generation Variability…Stephen F. Matter
• Summer Ground Layer Biomass and Nutrient Contribution to Above-ground Litter in an Indiana Temperate Deciduous Forest…Nicole Turrill Welch, Jonathon M. Belmont and J.C. Randolph
• Population-level Consequences of Herbivory Timing in Trillium grandiflorum…Tiffany M. Knight
• The Influence of Woody Encroachment Upon Herbaceous Vegetation in a Southern Appalachian Wetland Complex…Robert J. Warren II, Irene M. Rossell, Kevin K. Moorhead and J. Dan Pittillo
• Top-down and Bottom-up Regulation in a Detritus-based Aquatic Food Web:  A Repeated Field Experiment Using the Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia purpurea) Inquiline Community…David Hoekman
• Responses of a Pond-breeding Amphibian Community to the Experimental Removal of Predatory Fish…Leroy J. Walston and Stephen J. Mullin
• Early Life-history and Conservation Status of Venustaconcha ellipsiformis (Bivalvia, Unionidae) in Minnesota…Daniel C. Allen, Bernard E. Sietman, Daniel E. Kelner, Mark C. Hove, Jennifer E. Kurth, J. Mike Davis, Jeffery L. Weiss and Daniel J. Hornbach
• Responses of Prairie Arhropod Communities to Fire and Fertilizer:  Balancing Plant and Arthropod Conservation…Maria K. Hartley, William E. Rogers, Evan Siemann and James Grace
• Range Occupancy and Endangerment:  A Test With a Butterfly Community…David M. Goehring, Gretchen C. Daily, Shamik Dasgupta and Paul R. Ehrlich
• Fungal Spore Dispersal by the Eastern Box Turtle (Terrapene carolina carolina)…S.C. Jones, W.J. Jordan IV, S.J. Meiners, A.N. Miller and A.S. Methven
• Embryonic and Juvenile Attachment Structures in Cherax cainii (Decapoda:  Parastacidae):  Implications for Maternal Care…Tim Burton, Brenton Knott, Debra Judge, Phil Vercoe and Anne Brearley
• The Influence of Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida) on Land Snail Diversity in a Southern Mixed Hardwood Forest…T.H. Nation
• Phylogeography of the Blue-spotted Salamander, Ambystoma laterale (Caudata:  Ambystomatidae)…James W. Demastes, Jonathan M. Eastman, Jade S. East and Christina Spolsky
• Home Range and Philopatry in the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata, in Iowa…Neil P. Bernstein, Rebecca J. Richtsmeier, Robert W. Black and Benjamin R. Montgomery
• Habitat Characteristics of Raccoon Daytime Resting Sites in Southern Illinois…Shona E. Wilson and Clayton K. Nielsen
• Sex Differences, Effects of Male Presence and Coordination of Nest Visits in Prairie Voles (Microtus ochrogaster) During the Immediate Postnatal Period…Betty McGuire, Erika Parker and William E. Bemis
• Microhabitat Associations of Northern Flying Squirrels in Burned and Thinned Forest Stands of the Sierra Nevada…Marc D. Meyer, Douglas A. Kelt and Malcolm P. North
• White-tailed Deer Dispersal Behavior in an Agricultural Environment…Charles M. Nixon, Philip C. Mankin, Dwayne R. Etter, Lonnie P. Hansen, Paul A. Brewer, James E. Chelsvig, Terry L. Esker and Joseph B. Sullivan
• Impact of Edge Habitat on Summer Home Range Size in Female Pumas…John W. Laundré and Janet Loxterman

Notes and Discussion

• Summer Nocturnal Patterns in Freshwater Drum (Aplodinotus grunniens)…Andrew L. Rypel and Justin B. Mitchell
• Mating is Correlated with a Reduced Risk of Predation in Female Red-sided Garter Snakes, Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis…Ryan P. O’Donnell and Robert T. Mason

Book Review

• Monitoring Rocky Shores…William E. Evans