96th ESA Annual Meeting (August 7 -- 12, 2011)

Wednesday, August 10, 2011: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

9AB, Austin Convention Center

1:30 PM

The continuum of masting behavior and its relation to seed predation and survival in temperate trees
David M. Bell, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station; James S. Clark, Duke University

1:50 PM

Experimental evidence of interacting drivers controlling pioneer riparian tree establishment in floodplain refugia
Maya K. Hayden, University of California, Berkeley; John J. Battles, University of California, Berkeley; John C. Stella, State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry

2:10 PM

Accelerating aspen dieback and understory community dynamics in the upper Gunnison Basin, Colorado
Jonathan D. Coop, Western State College of Colorado

2:30 PM

Canopy defoliation by forest tent caterpillar strongly increased resource availability and seedling growth in northern hardwood forests of Michigan
Danaë M.A. Rozendaal, Michigan State University; Richard K. Kobe, Michigan State University

2:50 PM

Near-term projections of long-lived forest systems: Using integral projection models to predict demographic change in dynamic environments
Sean McMahon, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

3:10 PM

Break

3:20 PM

Interannual variation in competitive interactions from natural and anthropogenic disturbances in a temperate forest tree species: Implications for ecological interpretation
Christian Messier, Université du Québec à Montréal

3:40 PM

Theoretical models of forest communities: Neutral theory plus
Ryan A. Chisholm, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

4:00 PM

Productivity, organism size, and the structure of the major terrestrial biomes: The role of emergent properties
Yoram Ayal, Ben Gurion University of the Negev

4:20 PM

The effects of soil resources and topography on local tree community structure of tropical forests
Claire A. Baldeck, Carnegie Institution for Science; James W. Dalling, University of Illinois

4:40 PM

Tamarisk invasion and fire in southwestern desert ecosystems
Gail M. Drus, Saint Francis University; Tom L. Dudley, University of California, Santa Barbara; Matthew L. Brooks, U.S. Geological Survey; J.R. Matchett, USGS Western Ecological Research Center; Thomas J. Even, University of California

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