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

Severe mass oak defoliation in Japan by oak wilt disease: Origin and propagation pattern of the defoliation
Takehiko Yamanaka, National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences; Kouichi Nunokawa, Niigata Prefectural Forest Research Institute; Shoichi Saito, Yamagata Prefectural Forest Research and Instruction Center; Hiroshi Kondoh, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Kyushu Research Center; Etsuko Shoda-Kagaya, Department of Forest Entomology, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute; Shun'ichi Makino, Department of Forest Entomology, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute

Impacts of agricultural land-use change on soil organic carbon storage in Danjiangkou Reservoir area, China
Xiaoli Cheng, Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology, Wuhan Botanical Garden,CAS, Wuhan 430074, P; Quanfa Zhang, Wuhan Botanical Garden, the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Plants, rats, and people: Seed dispersal of an economically important rainforest tree in Tanzania
Carrie E. Seltzer, National Geographic Society; Colin T. Kremer, Yale University; Henry J. Ndangalasi, University of Dar es Salaam; Norbert J. Cordeiro, Roosevelt University

Effects of rainfall on soil moisture and water movement in a subalpine dark coniferous forest in southwestern China
Qing Xu, Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China; Shirong Liu, Chinese Acadamy of Forestry

Preferential uptake of different nitrogen forms by tree species in Bornean mixed dipterocarp forest
Jocelyn A. Olney, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Amy E. Kochsiek, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Sylvester Tan, Forest Department Sarawak; Sabrina E. Russo, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Woody plant species composition and structure of burned sites differs only slightly from unburned sites in a Southern Appalachian wilderness area
Shawn M. Kelly, Clemson University; Thomas A. Waldrop, US Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Center for Forest Disturbance Science

Fertilization impact on sulphur translocation and bioaccumulation from soil to triticale (X Triticosecale W.) shoot and grain
Marton Laszlo Sr., RISSAC

Effect of organic matter manipulation in a pine plantation 16 years after clearcutting
Kimberly Howard, Alabama A&M University; Luben D. Dimov, Alabama A&M University; Zakiya H. Leggett, Weyerhaeuser Company; Eric B. Sucre, Weyerhaeuser Company

Ecology, distribution, and predictive modeling of Tamias palmeri: A high elevation small mammal
Christopher E. Lowrey, USGS

Isolated red oak hydrolyzable tannins reduce gypsy moth feeding preference and weight gain
Brian Rehill, U.S. Naval Academy; Amanda Lau, U.S. Naval Academy; Debra Dillner, U.S. Naval Academy

Tree species in the tropical deciduous forest in the Sierra de Tamaulipas, Tamaulipas, México
Patricia Ramírez-Araiza, Institute of Applied Ecology, University Autonomous of Tamaulipas, Mexico; José G. Martínez-Avalos, Institute of Applied Ecology, University Autonomous of Tamaulipas, Mexico; Arturo Mora-Olivo, Institute of Applied Ecology, University Autonomous of Tamaulipas, Mexico; Patricia Feria, University of Texas - Pan American, USA; Gerardo Sánchez-Ramos, Institute of Applied Ecology, University Autonomous of Tamaulipas, Mexico

Modelling the Forest Transition
Christopher Pagnutti, University of Western Ontario and University of Guelph; Madhur Anand, University of Guelph; Chris Bauch, University of Guelph and Princeton University; Simon A. Levin, Princeton University

PS 84 - Latebreaking: Forests