Wednesday, August 4, 2010: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
336, David L Lawrence Convention Center
COS 67 - Forests I
1:30 PMCOS 67-1Disturbance characteristics and community resilience in mixed hardwood oak forests
Yvette L. Dickinson, Penn State University, Eric K. Zenner, Penn State University
1:50 PMCOS 67-2Forest fires alter soil fungal communities in boreal ecosystems: Implications for carbon cycling
Sandra R. Dooley, University of California, Irvine, Steven D. Allison, University of California, Irvine, Kathleen K. Treseder, University of California, Irvine
2:10 PMCOS 67-3Canopy species and litter quality regulate patterns of decomposition and nutrient release in a coffee agroforest
Katherine L. Tully, University of Virginia, Deborah Lawrence, University of Virginia
2:30 PMCOS 67-4Saving species at risk through regional partnerships
Harold Balbach, US Army ERDC, Deborah Burr, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
2:50 PMCOS 67-5Resistance and resilience of forest canopy height to hurricane damage
Nicholas Brokaw, University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras, Shawn Fraver, USDA Forest Service
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PMCOS 67-6Simulation of defoliation outbreaks in deciduous landscapes: How disturbance interactions affect forest carbon sequestration
Jane R. Foster, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Robert M. Scheller, Portland State University, Brian R. Sturtevant, U.S. Forest Service, Philip A. Townsend, University of Wisconsin - Madison, David J. Mladenoff, University of Wisconsin-Madison
3:40 PMCOS 67-7Patterns in and controls over nitrogen loss from wet lowland tropical forests
Alan R. Townsend, University of Colorado, Boulder, William R. Wieder, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado at Boulder, Philip G. Taylor, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado at Boulder, Cory C. Cleveland, University of Montana, Gregory P. Asner, Carnegie Institution
4:00 PMCOS 67-8Secondary coastal forest composition relative to an environmental gradient and seed rain distribution in Costa Rica
Erin S. Lindquist, Meredith College
4:20 PMCOS 67-9Influence of environment, and disturbance on the patterns of tropical plant species diversity in Western Ghats, India
P. Dilip Venugopal, University of Maryland, Raphael Pelissier, Institut Franc¸ais de Pondichexry, B.R Ramesh, Institut Franc¸ais de Pondichexry, Karine Belna, Institut Franc¸ais de Pondichexry, Pierre Couteron, UMR- AMAP

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