• Editorial Announcement...William E. Evans, Editor in Chief
• In Homage to Our Founder; a Brief Biography of Reverend Julius Aloysious Nieuwland, C.S.C...Kenneth E. Filchak
• Bringing Evolution to Notre Dame:  Father John Zahm, C.S.C. and Theistic Evolutionism...Phillip R. Sloan
• Grassland Botanical Structure Influences Lek Spatial Organization in Gryllotalpa major S. (Orthoptera:  Gryllotalpidae)...Daniel R. Howard and Peggy S. M. Hill
• Effects of an Invasive Plant Species, Celastrus orbiculatus, on Soil Composition and Processes...Stacey A. Leicht-Young, Hillary O'Donnell, Andrew M. Latimer and John A. Silander, Jr.
• Modes of Crown Vetch Invasion and persistence...David A. Losure, Kirk A. Moloney and Brian J. Wilsey
• Nutrient Encounter by a Generalist Herbivore in a Heterogeneous Landscape...Guy N. Cameron, Jerry J. Johnston and J.C. Randolph
• Twenty Five Years of Change in a Disjunct Tsuga canadensis Forest in Southern Wisconsin...Thomas F. Grittinger
• The Importance of Pitcher Size in Prey Capture in the Carnivorous Plant, Sarracenia alata Wood (Sarraceniaceae)...Ganesh P. Bhattarai and John D. Horner
• Forest Expansion and Soil Carbon Changes in the Loess Hills of Eastern South Dakota...Craig N. Spencer, Steven L. Matzner, Jason Smalley, Matthew Bukrey, Jennifer Onberg, Michael Chapman and Mark Steck
• Conservation Genetics of Remnant Lilium philadelphicum Populations in the Midwestern United States...Matthew E. Horning and Michael S. Webster
• Age Structure and Genetic Diversity of Four Quercus macrocarpa (Michx.) Populations in Fragmented Oak Savanna along the Central Minnesota River Valley...Pamela M. Kittelson, Christopher Pinahs, Joshua Dwyer, Angela Ingersoll, Elaine Mans, Jennifer Rieke, Brady Rutman and Matthew Volenec
• Survival and Cause-Specific Mortality of Wild Turkeys in Northern Indiana...Lee A. Humberg, Travis L. DeVault and Olin E. Rhodes, Jr.
• Range Expansion of Barred Owls, Part II:  Facilitating Ecological Changes...Kent B. Livezey
• Badger (Taxidea taxus) Mounds Affect Soil Hydrological Properties in a Degraded Shrub-Steppe...David J. Eldridge

Book Review

• Noninvasive Survey Methods for Carnivores...Clayton K. Nielsen
• Recent Books of Merit...William E. Evans

Notes and Discussion

• Improve Scientific Writing and Avoid Perishing...Leslie N. Carraway
• Content and Organization of a Scientific Paper...Leslie N. Carraway
• Morphological and Ecological Relationships between Burrs and Furs...Mason W. Kulbaba, Jacques C. Tardif and Richard J. Staniforth
• Hikers Impact on the North Fork of the Virgin River, Zion National Park, Utah...Thomas Smith
• Aggregations of Sea Otters (Enhydra lutris kenyoni) Feeding on Fish Eggs and Kelp in Prince William Sound, Alaska...Olivia A. Lee, Paul Olivier, Ryan Wolt, Randall W. Davis and Fred Weltz
• A Field System for Isoflurane Anesthesia of Multiple Species of Mesopredators...Christina J. Kocer and Larkin A. Powell

Table of Contents, Volume 161(2), April 2009