Session: Forest Habitats: Tropical (94th ESA Annual Meeting (August 2 -- 7, 2009))

1:30 PM

Nutrient limitation of seedling growth in a tropical forest
Louis Santiago, University of California, Riverside; Carmi Korine, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; S. Joseph Wright, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

1:50 PM

COS 109-2

Inorganic and organic nitrogen losses from a montane tropical forest in Las Alturas, Costa Rica
Joaquin Chaves, Brown University; Stephen Porder, Brown University

2:10 PM

COS 109-3

Dissecting biomass dynamics in a large Amazonian forest plot and hypotheses about causes
Renato Valencia, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador; Richard Condit, The field museum; Helene Müller-Landau, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Consuelo Hernández, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador; Hugo Navarrete, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador

2:30 PM

COS 109-4

The importance of forest structure to rainfall partitioning and cloud interception in native forest in Kona, Hawai’i
Kate A. Brauman, University of Minnesota; David L. Freyberg, Stanford University; Gretchen C. Daily, Stanford University

2:50 PM

COS 109-5

Wood production across soil resource gradients in a wet tropical forest
Thomas W. Baribault, Forest Solutions, Inc.; Richard K. Kobe, Michigan State University

3:10 PM

COS 109-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 109-6

Controls of wood production by tropical rainforest tree species: The relative roles of drought, temperature and CO₂
David Clark, University of Missouri-St. Louis & University of Virginia; Deborah A. Clark, University of Missouri-St. Louis & University of Virginia

3:40 PM

COS 109-7

CANCELLED - Temporal changes of biomass estimates among timber trees in a Malaysian lowland dipterocarp forest
Abd Rahman Kassim, Forest Research Institute Malaysia; Muhammad Firdaus Abdullah Sani, Forest Research Institute Malaysia; Nur Supardi Mohd Nor, Forest Research Institute Malaysia; Serafina Christine Dawn Fletcher, Forest Research Institute Malaysia; Ismariah Ahmad, Forest Research Institute Malaysia

4:00 PM

COS 109-8

A study on Ecobiology of Gray Goral (Naemorhedus goral) with reference to Pakistan and Azad Kashmir
Fakhar-i- Abbas, Pakistan Bioresource Research Centre; Dr Afsar Mian, Bioresource Research Centre; Tanver Akhtar, University of the Punjab

4:20 PM

COS 109-9

The impact of canopy disturbances from lightning to the structure of mangrove forest in the Biosphere reserve of Can Gio, Vietnam
Uta Berger, TU Dresden; Dietrich Stoyan, TU Freiberg

4:40 PM

COS 109-10

Do differences in understory light contribute to tree species turnover along a tropical rainfall gradient?
Thomas A. Kursar, University of Utah; Tania Brenes, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Adam B. Roddy, University of California, Berkeley; Phyllis D. Coley, University of Utah

COS 109 - Forest Habitats: Tropical