93rd ESA Annual Meeting (August 3 -- August 8, 2008)

Tuesday, August 5, 2008: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

202 D, Midwest Airlines Center

8:00 AM

COS 23-1

Repositories of biodiversity: Arboreal seed banks in forest and pasture relict tree crowns in Monteverde, Costa Rica
Nalini Nadkarni, University of Utah

8:20 AM

COS 23-2

Using forest canopy density to model beneath canopy snowpack
Jordan D. Muss, University of Wisconsin - Madison; David J. Mladenoff, University of Wisconsin - Madison

8:40 AM

COS 23-3

Resource partitioning by vascular epiphytes in the rainforest canopy, Costa Rica
Catherine L. Cardelus, Colgate University; Michelle C. Mack, University of Florida

9:00 AM

COS 23-4

Effects of adult trees on recruitment of American beech and sugar maple in fragmented forests
Sandra L. Albro, Cleveland Botanical Garden; Paul B. Drewa, Case Western Reserve University

9:20 AM

COS 23-5

Linking light attenuation and the occurrence of sunflecks to canopy structure in expanding shrub thickets
Steven T. Brantley, Virginia Commonwealth University; Donald R. Young, Alaska Department of Fish and Game

9:40 AM

COS 23-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 23-6

Persistent seed dispersal limitation in a fragmented landscape at Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico
Cristina Martinez-Garza, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos; Alejandro Flores-Palacios, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos; Henry F. Howe, University of Illinois-Chicago

10:10 AM

COS 23-7

Methods to enhance tropical forest restoration and education at the Cloud Forest School in Monteverde, Costa Rica
Patricia A. Townsend, University of Washington

10:30 AM

COS 23-8

An assessment of the impact of cultivation history on the conservation value of naturally regenerating forests as a forest restoration strategy in the Eastern Arc Mountains, Tanzania
Tuyeni Heita Mwampamba, University of California Davis

10:50 AM

COS 23-9

Disturbance history and aboveground biomass in 4 afro-tropical montane forests
Lauren M. Persha, Indiana University

11:10 AM

COS 23-10

Theophrastus’ challenge accepted: Correlating "‘easy" plant functional traits with frost resistance in rainforest seedlings
Timothy J. Curran, School for Field Studies; Ellen M. Reid, Louisiana State University; Sarah Bernstein, University of California, Santa Barbara; Eric Braden, Texas Tech University; Eileen Butterfield, The University of Texas at Austin; Deanna Eickhoff, University of Redlands; Jennifer Goodwillie, Bard College at Simon's Rock; Amanda Lee, Clark University-MA

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COS 23 - Forest Canopy and Tropical Forests