Session: Forests: Tropical (2017 ESA Annual Meeting (August 6 -- 11))

8:00 AM

Dynamics of root and mycorrhizal fungi in leaf cutter ant nests in a lowland tropical forest
Amanda Swanson, University of California, Riverside; Michael F. Allen, University of California; Diego Dierick, Florida International University

8:20 AM

COS 185-2

Inferring critical points of ecosystem transitions (forest:savanna) from spatial data
Krishnapriya Tamma, Indian Institute of Science; Sabiha Majumder, Indian Institute of Science; Sriram Ramaswamy, Indian Institute of Science; Vishwesha Guttal, Indian Institute of Science

8:40 AM

COS 185-3

How does variation in rainfall or a drier climate affect aboveground biomass of a seasonally dry tropical forest in Panama?
Thomas L Powell, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Lara M Kueppers, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Charles D Koven, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab; Boris Faybishenko, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Daniel J Johnson, Los Alamos National Lab; Nathan G. McDowell, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Jeffrey Q. Chambers, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California Berkeley

9:00 AM Cancelled

COS 185-4

Combined effects of seed and soil quality drive seedling performance of a tropical tree in a fragmented forest (widthdrawn)
Jenny Zambrano, SESYNC; Henry F. Howe, University of Illinois-Chicago; Miquel Gonzalez-Meler, University of Ilinois- Chicago

9:20 AM

COS 185-5

Integrating fire-related PFTs into predictions of large-scale forest responses to fire in Amazonia
Carla Staver, Yale University; Paulo M. Brando, Woods Hole Research Center

9:40 AM

COS 185-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 185-6

Mycorrhizal association and soil fertility influence plant-soil feedback in a Dipterocarp rainforest
R. Max Segnitz, Stanford University; Sabrina E. Russo, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Kabir G. Peay, Stanford University

10:10 AM

COS 185-7

Forest habitat connectivity in the Western Nghe An Man and Biosphere Reserve, Vietnam
Peter H. Singleton, USDA Forest Service; Dung Hyunh, Vietnam Forests and Deltas Program; Lan Huong, Vietnam Forests and Deltas Program; Chung Thanh Nguyen, Nghe An Department of Agriculture and Rural Development

10:30 AM

COS 185-8

The moss that ate Kohala: Understory plant diversity loss along a Sphagnum palustre gradient on the Big Island, Hawai‘i
A. Lisa Schomaker, University of Wisconsin; Sara Hotchkiss, University of Wisconsin

10:50 AM

COS 185-9

Life history strategies of tropical trees are displaced within phylogenetic clades
Jessica F. Needham, Smithsonian Institution; Sean M McMahon, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

COS 185 - Forests: Tropical