95th ESA Annual Meeting (August 1 -- 6, 2010)

Wednesday, August 4, 2010: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

336, David L Lawrence Convention Center

Presider:

Jasmin Mantilla Contreras, University of Greifswald

1:30 PM

COS 67-1

Disturbance characteristics and community resilience in mixed hardwood oak forests
Yvette L. Dickinson, Penn State University; Eric K. Zenner, Penn State University

1:50 PM

COS 67-2

Forest fires alter soil fungal communities in boreal ecosystems: Implications for carbon cycling
Sandra R. Holden, University of California, Irvine; Steven D. Allison, University of California; Kathleen K. Treseder, University of California, Irvine

2:10 PM

COS 67-3

Canopy species and litter quality regulate patterns of decomposition and nutrient release in a coffee agroforest
Katherine L. Tully, Columbia University; Deborah Lawrence, University of Virginia

2:30 PM

COS 67-4

Saving species at risk through regional partnerships
Harold Balbach, US Army ERDC; Deborah Burr, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission

2:50 PM

COS 67-5

Resistance and resilience of forest canopy height to hurricane damage
Nicholas Brokaw, Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Studies University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras; Shawn Fraver, University of Minnesota

3:10 PM

COS 67-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 67-6

Simulation of defoliation outbreaks in deciduous landscapes: How disturbance interactions affect forest carbon sequestration
Jane R. Foster, University of Minnesota; 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 PM

COS 67-7

Patterns in and controls over nitrogen loss from wet lowland tropical forests
Alan R. Townsend, University of Colorado at Boulder; William R. Wieder, University of Colorado, Boulder; Philip G. Taylor, Duke University; Cory C. Cleveland, University of Montana; Gregory P. Asner, Carnegie Institution for Science

4:00 PM

COS 67-8

Secondary coastal forest composition relative to an environmental gradient and seed rain distribution in Costa Rica
Erin S. Lindquist, Meredith College

4:20 PM

COS 67-9

Influence 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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