94th ESA Annual Meeting (August 2 -- 7, 2009)

COS 39 - Community Pattern and Dynamics: Forests

Tuesday, August 4, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Cinnarron, Albuquerque Convention Center
Presider:
Faith Inman-Narahari
1:30 PM
Uneven forest mesification along an edaphic gradient in northern Wisconsin
Kathryn L. Amatangelo, Brown University; Mark R. Fulton, Bemidji State University; David A. Rogers, University of Wisconsin - Parkside; Donald Waller, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1:50 PM
Decoupling of overstory and understory dynamics in northern Wisconsin
Mark R. Fulton, Bemidji State University; Kathryn L. Amatangelo, Brown University; David A. Rogers, University of Wisconsin - Parkside; Donald Waller, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2:10 PM
CANCELLED - Effects of intra-specific variability on the development of community structure: Modelling spruce-fir forest dynamics
Benoit Courbaud, Cemagref - Grenoble; Ghislain Vieilledent, Cemagref - Grenoble; Georges Kunstler, Cemagref - Grenoble
2:30 PM
Spatial patterns of light availability in the tropical forest understorey may be the same as at the top of the canopy
David B. Greenberg, University of California; Warren Y. Brockelman, BIOTEC Central Research Unit
2:50 PM
The disappearance of large vertebrate seed dispersers from a tropical forest: what happens a hundred years later?
Shawn Lum, National Institute of Education, Singapore; Min Sheng Khoo, c/o National Institute of Education, Singapore
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
CANCELLED - Size discrimination of direct and indirect mechanical tree mortality processes in old-growth forests
Andrew J. Larson, University of Montana; Jerry F. Franklin, University of Washington
3:40 PM
Plant-animal interactions and forest community dynamics on the 30-ha Mo Singto forest dynamics plot in continental Thailand
Warren Y. Brockelman, BIOTEC Central Research Unit; Anuttara Nathalang, BIOTEC Central Research Unit
4:00 PM
Forest structure and species interactions in an analytically-tractable, yet mechanistically-rich model of nitrogen and light competition
Ray Dybzinski, Princeton University; Caroline E. Farrior, Princeton University; Stephen W. Pacala, Princeton University
4:20 PM
Regeneration patterns in a native dominated Hawaiian montane wet forest
Faith Inman-Narahari, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa; Kehauwealani Nelson-Kaula, University of Hawaii; Rebecca Ostertag, University of Hawaii at Hilo; Susan Cordell, USDA Forest Service; Christian Giardina, USDA Forest Service; Lawren Sack, UCLA
4:40 PM
Can differences in stomatal regulation explain competitive differences among tree species?
David M. Bell, University of Wyoming; Eric J. Ward, Northwest Fisheries Science Center; James Clark, Duke University; Ram Oren, Duke University