Session: Forests II (101st ESA Annual Meeting (August 7 -- 12, 2016))

1:30 PM

COS 57-1

Negative effects of leaf litter on feather moss growth in boreal spruce and birch forests
Mélanie Jean, University of Saskatchewan; April M. Melvin, Private Researcher; Michelle Mack, Northern Arizona University; Jill F. Johnstone, University of Saskatchewan

1:50 PM

COS 57-2

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

COS 57-3

Understory responses to thinning and burning vary with lifeform and the spatial scale of observation
Allison K. Rossman, University of Washington; Jonathan Bakker, University of Washington; Charles B. Halpern, University of Washington

2:30 PM

COS 57-4

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

COS 57-5

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

COS 57-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 57-6

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

COS 57-7

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

4:00 PM

COS 57-8

Big mountains; small birds; thin air: Natural history determines variation in hemglobin concentration in Himalayan birds
Sahas Barve, Cornell University; Zachary Cheviron, University of Montana

4:20 PM

COS 57-9

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

COS 57 - Forests II