Part I Global Scale.- Global Bioclimatic Zonation.- Vegetation Functional Types and Traits at Multiple Scales.- Part II.- Regional Vegetation Analysis and Synthesis.- Evergreen Broad-Leaved Forests of East Asia.- Evergreen-Deciduous Broad-Leaved Forest Ecotone in Eastern China.- Ecology of tertiary Relict Deciduous Trees in Subtropical Regions of China.- Classification of Lower-Montane Evergreen Forests in Southern India and Sri Lanka.- Dynamics of the Hawaiian Rainforest Ecosystem, a study at multiple scales.- On the Steppes and Shrub Thickets in Onon Dahuria.- Plant Diversity, Vegetation and Phytogeography of the Khorassan-Kopet Dagh Floristic Province in the Irano-Turanian Region.- The Vegetation Series of Italy and Applications in Biodiversity Conservation.- Marcescent Quercus pyrenaica Forest in the Iberian Peninsula.- Mediterranean Ultramafic (Serpentine) Chaparrals of California.- Part III.- Local Vegetation Description and Analysis.- Amphibious Vegetation in the Afro-Alpine Belt and the Role of Cryoturbation in Creating RegenerationNiches.- Large Habitat Range but Low Floristic Variation: the case of Festuco rubrae-Agrostietum capillaris 3 tables (all embedded) grasslands.- The Caricetum distichae Association in Italy.- The Vegetation of the Pie Vettore Debris (Sibillini Mountains, Central Italy).- Microtopography-Induced Differentiation of Moss Synusiae in Wet Grasslands covering a Karst Plain in Central Italy.- At What Scales and in What Vegetation Types Should we Sample Non-Vascular Plants?.- Part IV Conceptual Methodologies.- Moving from Patterns to Processes: a Challenge for the Phytosociology of the 21st Century.- A Multi-Scale Analysis of Plant Diversity along Soil Nutrient Gradients.- Part V Applied Vegetation Science.- Fallopia japonica (Japanese knotweed) in Japan: Why is it not a pest for Japanese people?.- Iberian Atlantic Forest Restoration: an experiment based in vegetation succession.- Carbon-Stock Measurement in Community Forests in Lampung Province, Sumatra.- Vegetation History and Dynamics in New Zealand – Future Scenarios and Improved Trajectories towards Restoring Natural Patterns.- Fundamentals and Perspectives of Geobotanical Research at the Beginning of the 21st Century.