• Participants in Ecosystem Experiment Workshop
• Participants in CO₂ Workshop
• Preface
• Introduction 

1. El Niño in the Galapagos Islands : A Natural Experiment .....F. Trillmich
2. Deforestation in the Tropics: Evaluation of Experiences in the Amazon Basin Focusing on Atmosphere-Forest Interactions .....E. Medina
3. What Ecological Lessons Can We Learn from Deforestation Processes in the Past? .....C.0.Tamm
4. Desertification: A Tale of Two Feedbacks .....R. D. Graetz
5. Acid Rain-A Large-scale, Unwanted Experiment in Forest Ecosystems .....E.-D. Schulze and B. Ulrich
6. What Can We Learn from Uncontrolled Ecosystem Experiments with Inorganic and Organic Micropollution? .....R. Herrmann
7. Whole-lake Experiments at the Experimental Lakes Area .....D. W. Schindler
8. The Role of Fire in Determining Stream Water Chemistry in Northern Coniferous Forests .....S.E. Bayley and D. W. Schindler
9. Acidification : Whole-catchment Manipulations.....R.F..Wright
10. Ecosystem Experiments in Wetlands .....K. C. Ewel
11. The Disturbance of Forested Watersheds .....P. M. Attiwill

12. The Mathematics of Complex Systems .....S. A. Levin

PART 2 GROUP REPORTS

13. Aquatic Ecosystem Experiments in the Context of Global Climate Change: Working Group Report .....J. F. Kitchell (group leader)

14. Whole-terrestrial Ecosystem Experiments in the Context of Global Change: Working Group Report .....B. H. Walker (group leader )
15. Available Technologies for Field Experimentation with Elevated CO₂ in Global Change Research .....B. R. Strain (group leader)