COS 57 - Forests II

Wednesday, August 10, 2016: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
209/210, Ft Lauderdale Convention Center
1:30 PM
 Negative effects of leaf litter on feather moss growth in boreal spruce and birch forests
Mélanie Jean, University of Saskatchewan; April M. Melvin, American Association for the Advancement of Science,; Michelle C. Mack, Northern Arizona University; Jill F. Johnstone, University of Saskatchewan
1:50 PM
 Habitat classification in a northern hardwood forest using moderate return density LiDAR
Coeli M. Hoover, US Forest Service; Mariko Yamasaki, USDA Forest Service; Christine A. Costello, USDA Forest Service
2:10 PM
 Understory responses to thinning and burning vary with lifeform and the spatial scale of observation
Allison K. Rossman, University of Washington; Jonathan D. Bakker, University of Washington; Charles B. Halpern, University of Washington
2:30 PM
 Influence of fire history and soil legacies on coast redwood regeneration and stand structure
Matthew R Brousil, California Polytechnic State University; Sarah Bisbing, California Polytechnic State University
2:50 PM
 Assessing controls on boreal forest ecosystem dynamics at regional scales
Anna T. Trugman, Princeton University; David M. Medvigy, Princeton University; John P. Caspersen, University of Toronto; Hongcheng Zeng, University of Toronto
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
 Use of a novel forest ecosystem for the recovery of an endangered species: Structure, function, and sustainability of red-cockaded woodpecker habitat on federal lands
George Matusick, The Nature Conservancy; Stephen J. Hudson, United States Department of Defense, Fort Benning; Michele L. Elmore, The Nature Conservency; James M. Parker, United States Department of Defense, Fort Benning
3:40 PM
 Measuring mercury in wood: Important but challenging
Yang Yang, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry; Ruth D. Yanai, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry; Mario Montesdeoca, Syracuse University; Charles T. Driscoll, Syracuse University
4:20 PM
 NPP saturation, soil acidification, and phosphorus limitation caused by increasing nitrogen loading
Shuli Niu, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Dashuan Tian, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Yong Li, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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