Vegetation ecology: an overview / Eddy van der Maarel -- Vegetation and environment: discontinuities and continuities / M.P. Austin -- Vegetation and ecosystems / Christoph Leuschner -- Vegetation types and their broad-scale distribution / Elgene O. Box & Kazue Fujiwara -- Clonal plants in the community / Brita M. Svensson, Hakan Rydin & Bengt A. Carlsson -- Plant dispersal potential and its relation to species frequency and co-existence / Peter Poschlod, Oliver Tackenberg & Susanne Bonn -- Vegetation dynamics / Steward T.A. Pickett & Mary L. Cadenasso -- Diversity and ecosystem function / Jan Leps -- Species interactions structuring plant communities / Jelte van Andel -- Terrestrial plant-herbivore interactions: integrating across multiple determinants and trophic levels / Mahesh Sankaran & S.J. McNaughton -- Interaction between higher plants and soil-dwelling organisms / Thomas W. Kuyper & G.M. de Goede -- Vegetation conservation, management, and restoration / Jan P. Bakker -- Plant invasions and invisibility of plant communities / Marcel Rejmanek, David Richardson & Petr Pysek -- Vegetation ecology and global change / Brian Huntley & Robert Baxter.