Only original works, preferably of a biological-ecological, floristic, faunistic or nature conservation nature, will be included. This should also give those working part-time in one of these fields the opportunity or the impetus to intensify their work.

Manuscripts should be sent to the editorial office (for the attention of Prof Dr Rainer Buchwald, IBU-A1, School V, University of Oldenburg, 26111 Oldenburg; by email to rainer.buchwald@uni-oldenburg.de or detlev.metzing@uni-oldenburg.de).

• The contributions must be preceded by a short English abstract (max. 1500 characters) and accompanied by a corresponding German summary. The full address of the author must be given at the end.
• Figures and tables should be submitted on separate sheets in print-ready form or as separate files (figures in *.tif or *.jpg format, do not include graphics in text files (!); tables preferably as *docx, not *doc or *xls files; text in *docx format). Especially when creating tables, the conversion for printing must be taken into account.
• Landscape formats are to be favoured over portrait formats when producing illustrations.
• The printing of colour illustrations is possible at the authors' expense.
• Attach figure and table legends to the end of the manuscript (preferably in a separate file).
• Formatting, in particular indentations and tables using spaces, tabs, italics or small caps etc. should be avoided.

Please list references at the end of the paper according to the following pattern:

German Soil Science Society (2013): On the Soil of the Year campaign. - www.dbges.de/wb/pages/boden-des-jahres.php [12 MARCH 2013]

Ellenberg, H. (1996): Vegetation of Central Europe with the Alps. 5th ed. - E. Ulmer, Stuttgart. 1096 S.

Humphries, C. J. & V. A. Funk (1984): Cladistic methodology. - In: V. Heywood & D. M. Moore (eds.), Current concepts of plant taxonomy. The Systematics Association Special Volume 25: 323-362, Academic Press, London.

Jax, K. (1999): Natural disturbances: an important concept for ecology and conservation? - Journal of Ecology and Nature Conservation 7: 241-253.

Riecken, U., P. Finck, U. Raths, E. Schröder & Ssymank, A. (2006): Red List of Endangered Biotope Types in Germany. Second updated version 2006 - Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt 34: 1-318.

Schmidt, E. (1978): The distribution of the damselfly Coenagrion armatum Charpentier, 1840, in north-west Germany (Odonata: Coenagrionidae) - Drosera '78: 39-42.

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