Session: Tropical Forests (99th ESA Annual Meeting (August 10 -- 15, 2014))

1:30 PM Cancelled

COS 17-1

Testing the importance of large-scale climate factors for Australian rainforest community assembly following land-use change (widthdrawn)
Michael A. Sams, University of Queensland; Hao Ran Lai, University of Queensland; Daniel J. Metcalfe, CSIRO; Rob Kooyman, National Herbarium of New South Wales, the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust; John W. Morgan, La Trobe University; Peter Vesk, The University of Melbourne; Stephen Bonser, University of New South Wales; Margaret M. Mayfield, The University of Queensland

1:50 PM

COS 17-2

A geometric analysis of symmetry in the architecture of bifid bat tents and the effects of leaf dimensions on tent construction
Symphony Y. Yu, University of California, Berkeley; Anjali Kumar, Union of Concerned Scientists

2:10 PM

COS 17-3

Size variation in functional traits of tropical trees: Partitioning RGR along a light gradient
Christopher D. Philipson, WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, SLF; Michael J. O'Brien, University of Zurich; Mark Rees, University of Sheffield; Andy Hector, University of Oxford

2:30 PM

COS 17-4

Tropical forest structure and diversity in response to varying disturbance regimes
Jeff D. Lauder, California State University, Chico; Randall Senock, California State University, Chico

2:50 PM

COS 17-5

Does microgeographic thermal complexity beget biodiversity in rainforest detrital food webs?
Terrence McGlynn, California State University Dominguez Hills; Erica L. Parra, California State University Dominguez Hills; Jaime A. Perez, California State University Dominguez Hills

3:10 PM

COS 17-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 17-6

How does non-random mortality change landscape estimation of biomass lost from catastrophic wind disturbances in the Peruvian Amazon?
Sami Walid Rifai, University of Florida; Jose David Urquiza Muñoz, Universidad Nacional Amazonía Peruana; Stephanie Bohlman, University of Florida; Jeffrey Q. Chambers, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California Berkeley

3:40 PM

COS 17-7

Comparison of leaf traits regarding nitrogen use in congeneric pairs from sandy coastal plains (restingas) of Southeast Brazil
Silvia F. Mardegan, University of Sao Paulo; Eduardo A. de Mattos, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; Luiz A. Martinelli, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

4:00 PM

COS 17-8

Tropical montane tree seedlings’s response to current and novel temperature and precipitation
Shafkat Khan, University of Georgia; Jacqueline E. Mohan, University of Georgia; Paul T. Frankson, University of Georgia

4:20 PM

COS 17-9

Distribution of Eucalytus deglupta in volcanically disturbed landscape in Papua New Guinea
Randall Senock, California State University, Chico

4:40 PM

COS 17-10

Metacommunity structure of dry tropical forests at the distal end of the Florida peninsula
Michael S. Ross, Florida International University; Jay P. Sah, Florida International University; Suresh Subedi, Florida International University

COS 17 Tropical Forests

COS 17
Tropical Forests