One: Systems’ Adaptations.- 1. Convergence and non-convergence of Mediterranean type communities in the old and the new world.- 2. Functioning of tundra vegetation in relation to life forms.- 3. Adaptive plant evolution in the alpine environment of the Greek mountains.- 4. History and genetics of tolerance to the natural phyto-toxic media of western Balkans.- 5. Morpho-anatomical syndromes in phyto-indicators of extreme stormy habitats in the northeastern Adriatic.- 6. Leaf form of the woody plants of Indiana as related to environment.- 7. Fire adaptation strategies of plants in the French Mediterranean area.- Two: Adaptations to Water (Availability or Deficiency).- 8. Root sheaths as an adaptation to soil moisture stress in arid zone grasses.- 9. Osmotic and turgor relations in selected chaparral shrub species.- 10. Adaptations of the photosynthetic pigment system to ecological conditions with respect to water in different terrestrial plants.- 11. Ways of detecting adaptive responses of cultivated plants to drought. An agronomic approach.- 12. Structural aspects of the adaptation of some blue-green algae and diatoms to desiccation.- Three: Adaptations to Temperature.- 13. Species-specific responses to temperature in acid metabolism and gas exchange performance of Macaronesian sempervivoideae.- 14. Soil temperature effects on carbon exchange in Taiga trees.- 15. Influence of the environment on cold hardening and winter survival of forage and cereal species with consideration of proline as a metabolic marker of hardening.- Four: Adaptations to Light.- 16. Adaptations of understorey species to exist in temperate deciduous forests.- 17. Growth of Dactylis glomerata L. and Bromus erectus Huds. in natural habitats and along light and water gradients.- 18. A model of growth kinetic theory of Anacystis nidulans in light-limited culture.- Five: Nutrition.- 19. Fe, Co, Zn, Br, Cs, Se, Cr, Sb and Sc content and growth of soybean nodules as affected by nutrient deficiency.- 20. Effect of Molybdenum and Cobalt on the nitrogen-fixing activity of Rhizobium japonicum and soybean yield.- Six: Interactions.- 21. The measurement of adaptation in cultivated plants.- 22. Branching patterns in columnar cacti.- 23. Edaphic restriction of Cupressus forbesii (Tecate Cypress) in Southern California, U.S.A. — A hypothesis.- 24. Ultrastructure and cytochemistry of retinacles and pollinia from Mediterranean Orchids— their relation with pollination.- 25. Observations on the dynamics of three populations of oak seedlings (Quercus sessiliflora Ehrl.) in the Fontainebleau forest.- 26. Effect of plant volatiles on rhizospheric and phyllospheric mycoflora.- 27. Moss growth and development is facilitated by natural bacterial flora.- 28. Comparative ability of Rhizobium phaseoli strains.- Seven: Pollution.- 29. The importance of forests in the region of the Pardubice industrial agglomeration.- 30. Modification of pollutant effects by ecological factors.- 31. Tree barks and pollutant zoning.- 32. Heavy metal uptake by radish in relation to soil fertility and chemical extractability of metals.- 33. Adaptation of soil microorganisms to decomposition of some herbicides.- 34. Determination of Zinc, Iron and Aluminum in halophytic species of the river Sado estuary-Portugal, by atomic absorption spectrometry.
