COS 109 - Forest Habitats: Tropical

Thursday, August 6, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Grand Pavillion I, Hyatt
Presider:
Louis Santiago, University of California, Riverside
1:30 PM
 Nutrient limitation of seedling growth in a tropical forest
Louis Santiago, University of California, Riverside; Carmi Korine, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; S. Joseph Wright, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
1:50 PM
 Inorganic and organic nitrogen losses from a montane tropical forest in Las Alturas, Costa Rica
Joaquin Chaves, Brown University; Stephen Porder, Brown University
2:10 PM
 Dissecting biomass dynamics in a large Amazonian forest plot and hypotheses about causes
Renato Valencia, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador; Richard Condit, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Helene Müller-Landau, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Consuelo Hernández, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador; Hugo Navarrete, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador
2:30 PM
 The importance of forest structure to rainfall partitioning and cloud interception in native forest in Kona, Hawai’i
Kate A. Brauman, University of Minnesota; David L. Freyberg, Stanford University; Gretchen C. Daily, Stanford University
2:50 PM
 Wood production across soil resource gradients in a wet tropical forest
Thomas W. Baribault, Forest Solutions, Inc.; Richard K. Kobe, Michigan State University
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
 Controls of wood production by tropical rainforest tree species: The relative roles of drought, temperature and CO2
David Clark, University of Missouri-St. Louis & University of Virginia; Deborah A. Clark, University of Missouri-St. Louis & University of Virginia
3:40 PM
 CANCELLED - Temporal changes of biomass estimates among timber trees in a Malaysian lowland dipterocarp forest
Abd Rahman Kassim, Forest Research Institute Malaysia; Muhammad Firdaus Abdullah Sani, Forest Research Institute Malaysia; Nur Supardi Mohd Nor, Forest Research Institute Malaysia; Serafina Christine Dawn Fletcher, Forest Research Institute Malaysia; Ismariah Ahmad, Forest Research Institute Malaysia
4:00 PM
 A study on Ecobiology of Gray Goral (Naemorhedus goral) with reference to Pakistan and Azad Kashmir
Fakhar-i- Abbas, Pakistan Bioresource Research Centre; Dr Afsar Mian, Bioresource Research Centre; Tanver Akhtar, University of the Punjab
4:20 PM
 The impact of canopy disturbances from lightning to the structure of mangrove forest in the Biosphere reserve of Can Gio, Vietnam
Uta Berger, Institute of Forest Growth and Computer Science, Dresden University of Technology; Dietrich Stoyan, TU Freiberg
4:40 PM
 Do differences in understory light contribute to tree species turnover along a tropical rainfall gradient?
Thomas A. Kursar, University of Utah; Tania Brenes, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Adam B. Roddy, Yale University; Phyllis D. Coley, University of Utah
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