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

Tuesday, August 4, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

Cinnarron, Albuquerque Convention Center

Presider:

Faith Inman-Narahari, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa

1:30 PM

COS 39-1

Uneven forest mesification along an edaphic gradient in northern Wisconsin
Kathryn L. Amatangelo, Brown University; Mark R. Fulton, Bemidji State University; David A. Rogers, University of Wisconsin - Parkside; Donald Waller, University of Wisconsin-Madison

1:50 PM

COS 39-2

Decoupling of overstory and understory dynamics in northern Wisconsin
Mark R. Fulton, Bemidji State University; Kathryn L. Amatangelo, Brown University; David A. Rogers, University of Wisconsin - Parkside; Donald Waller, University of Wisconsin-Madison

2:10 PM

COS 39-3

CANCELLED - Effects of intra-specific variability on the development of community structure: Modelling spruce-fir forest dynamics
Benoit Courbaud, Cemagref - Grenoble; Ghislain Vieilledent, Cemagref - Grenoble; Georges Kunstler, Cemagref - Grenoble

2:30 PM

COS 39-4

Spatial patterns of light availability in the tropical forest understorey may be the same as at the top of the canopy
David B. Greenberg, University of California; Warren Y. Brockelman, BIOTEC Central Research Unit

2:50 PM

COS 39-5

The disappearance of large vertebrate seed dispersers from a tropical forest: what happens a hundred years later?
Shawn Lum, National Institute of Education, Singapore; Min Sheng Khoo, c/o National Institute of Education, Singapore

3:10 PM

COS 39-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 39-6

CANCELLED - Size discrimination of direct and indirect mechanical tree mortality processes in old-growth forests
Andrew J. Larson, University of Montana; Jerry F. Franklin, University of Washington

3:40 PM

COS 39-7

Plant-animal interactions and forest community dynamics on the 30-ha Mo Singto forest dynamics plot in continental Thailand
Warren Y. Brockelman, BIOTEC Central Research Unit; Anuttara Nathalang, BIOTEC Central Research Unit

4:00 PM

COS 39-8

Forest structure and species interactions in an analytically-tractable, yet mechanistically-rich model of nitrogen and light competition
Ray Dybzinski, Princeton University; Caroline E. Farrior, Princeton University; Stephen W. Pacala, Princeton University

4:20 PM

COS 39-9

Regeneration patterns in a native dominated Hawaiian montane wet forest
Faith Inman-Narahari, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa; Kehauwealani Nelson-Kaula, University of Hawaii; Rebecca Ostertag, University of Hawaii at Hilo; Susan Cordell, USDA Forest Service; Christian Giardina, USDA Forest Service; Lawren Sack, UCLA

4:40 PM

COS 39-10

Can differences in stomatal regulation explain competitive differences among tree species?
David M. Bell, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station; Eric J. Ward, Northwest Fisheries Science Center; James S. Clark, Duke University; Ram Oren, Duke University

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