94th ESA Annual Meeting (August 2 -- 7, 2009)

Thursday, August 6, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

Grand Pavillion I, Hyatt

Presider:

Louis Santiago, University of California, Riverside

1:30 PM

COS 109-1

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

COS 109-2

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

COS 109-3

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

COS 109-4

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

COS 109-5

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

COS 109-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 109-6

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

COS 109-7

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

COS 109-8

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

COS 109-9

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

COS 109-10

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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COS 109 - Forest Habitats: Tropical