Session: Tropical Forests I (2018 ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10))

8:00 AM

The socio-ecological benefits of subtropical forests in Guangdong Province, southern China: Food supply and SO₂ immobilization
Nancai Pei, Research Institute of Tropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry; Bufeng Chen, Research Institute of Tropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry; Xin Shi, Research Institute of Tropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry; Na Luo, Key Laboratory of State Forestry Administration on Forest Ecosystem Protection and Restoration of Poyang Lake Watershed (JXAU); Lei Li, Hunan Academy of Forestry; Junsheng Liang, Hunan Academy of Forestry; Lin Gu, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry; Linping Zhang, Key Laboratory of State Forestry Administration on Forest Ecosystem Protection and Restoration of Poyang Lake Watershed (JXAU); Cheng Wang, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry

8:20 AM

COS 106-2

Long-term diversity trajectories of tree communities after disturbance in a neotropical forest
Ariane Mirabel, UMR EcoFoG, AgroParistech, CNRS, Cirad, INRA, Université des Antilles, Université de Guyane; Eric Marcon, UMR EcoFoG, AgroParistech, CNRS, Cirad, INRA, Université des Antilles, Université de Guyane; Bruno Hérault, Cirad,Univ Montpellier, INPHB, Institut National Polytechnique Houphouët-Boigny

8:40 AM

COS 106-3

Unraveling New Guinea's plant diversity
Rodrigo Cámara-Leret, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

9:00 AM

COS 106-4

Long term decline of native remnants in an invaded Hawaiian tropical dry forest
Joshua Hibit, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Curtis C. Daehler, University of Hawaii

9:20 AM

COS 106-5

Climate and forest dynamics in tropical montane forests
Patrick H. Martin, University of Denver

9:40 AM

COS 106-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 106-6

Lightning is a key agent of large tropical tree mortality
Stephen P. Yanoviak, University of Louisville; Evan Gora, University of Louisville; Jeffrey C Burchfield, University of Alabama in Huntsville; Phillip M. Bitzer, University of Alabama in Huntsville

10:10 AM

COS 106-7

Human impacts on forest-savanna bimodality in sub-Saharan Africa
Krishnapriya Tamma, Indian Institute of Science; Prashastha Mishra, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research; Vishwesha Guttal, Indian Institute of Science

10:30 AM

COS 106-8

How old is an understory seedling? Long-term records reveal the great age of suppressed, juvenile rainforest trees in north Queensland, Australia
Peter T. Green, La Trobe University; Kyle Harms, Louisiana State University

10:50 AM

COS 106-9

Potential pollinators of understory populations of Symphonia globulifera in the Neotropics
Andre Sanfiorenzo, University of Puerto Rico at Utuado; Lisette Waits, University of Idaho; Bryan Finegan, Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE)

COS 106 - Tropical Forests I