97th ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10, 2012)

8:00 AM

COS 189-1

Fossil pollen and conifer stomata reveal 14,000 years of vegetation dynamics on a hypermaritime island on the outer Pacific coast of Canada
Terri Lacourse, University of Victoria; J.M. Delepine, University of Victoria; E.H. Hoffman, University of Victoria; R.W. Mathewes, Simon Fraser University

8:20 AM

COS 189-2

Historical and physiographical determinants of tree species distribution in human-dominated boreal landscapes
Yan Boucher, Ministère des Ressources naturelles et de la Faune du Québec; Pierre Grondin, Ministère des Ressources naturelles et de la Faune du Québec; Isabelle Auger, Ministère des Ressources naturelles et de la Faune du Québec

8:40 AM

COS 189-3

Variability within the 10-year seasonal Neotropical pollen rain and its implications for paleoenvironmental reconstructions
Derek S. Haselhorst, University of Illinois; Jorge E. Moreno, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Surangi W. Punyasena, University of Illinois

9:00 AM

COS 189-4

Examining biomass allocation in tree seedlings along a tropical elevational gradient in the Andes
Catherine H. Bravo, Florida International University; Kenneth J. Feeley, Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden

9:20 AM

COS 189-5

Geographical variation in spatial synchrony of forest-insect outbreaks: Isolating the drivers of synchrony
Kyle J. Haynes, University of Virginia; Ottar N. Bjornstad, Penn State University; Andrew J. Allstadt, University of Wisconsin; Andrew M. Liebhold, USDA Forest Service

9:40 AM

COS 189-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 189-6

Reconciling inventory, tower, and remotely-sensed carbon estimates across northern Wisconsin through model-data fusion
Michael Dietze, Boston University; Shawn P. Serbin, Brookhaven National Laboratory; David LeBauer, University of Illinois; Rob Kooper, University of Illinois; Kenton McHenry, University of Illinois; Ankur R. Desai, University of Wisconsin Madison

10:10 AM

COS 189-7

Species composition and community structure of vines along the transaction of habitats at the Nanhsi forest dynamics plot in Yushan National Park of the Central Taiwan
Shau-Ting Chiu, National Museum of Natural Science; Thomas Kai Chun Tang, National Taiwan University; Kuoh-Cheng Yang, Providence University

10:30 AM

COS 189-8

Nitrogen fixation by russet buffaloberry in Colorado conifer forests
Mark W. Paschke, Colorado State University; Zoe M. Miller, Bureau of Land Management; Charles C. Rhoades, USDA Forest Service; Jayne L. Jonas, Colorado State University; Brett Wolk, Colorado State University

10:50 AM

COS 189-9

Linking fog climatology and the impact of cloud immersion on transpiration of Pinus patula within a seasonal tropical montane cloud forest environment
Maria Susana Alvarado-Barrientos, University of New Hampshire; Friso Holwerda, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Heidi Asbjornsen, University of New Hampshire; Todd E. Dawson, University of California Berkeley

11:10 AM

COS 189-10

Aboveground net primary productivity in Costa Rican secondary tropical dry forest over 3 years
Justin M. Becknell, Carleton College; Jennifer S. Powers, University of Minnesota

COS 189 - Forest Habitats II