2020 ESA Annual Meeting (August 3 - 6)

COS 136 - Forests: Tropical 1

Quantifying the factors affecting wood decomposition across a tropical forest disturbance gradient
Gbadamassi Dossa, CAS-Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Kunming Institute of Botany; Ekananda Paudel, Nepal Academy of Science and Technology; Douglas A. Schaefer, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Jiao-Lin Zhang, CAS-Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology; Kunfang Cao, College of Forestry, Guangxi University; Jianchu Xu, World Agroforestry Centre, East & Central Asia Regional Office, Kunming, Kunming Institute of Botany; Rhett D. Harrison, World Agroforestry Centre
Patterns of tree leaf carbon and nitrogen among main vegetation types of a megadiverse country - Brazil
Luiz A. Martinelli, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil; Gabriela B. Nardoto, Universidade de Brasília; Jean P.H.B. Ometto, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)
A global analysis of tropical dry forst extent and cover based on climatic definitions
Jonathan Ocon, University of California, Los Angeles; Thomas W. Gillespie, University of California, Los Angeles; Thomas Ibanez, University of Hawaii, Hilo; Gunnar Keppel, University of South Australia; Stephanie Pau, Florida State University; Janet Franklin, Arizona State University; Gonzalo Rivas-Torres, Universidad San Francisco de Quito; Michael Shin, University of California, Los Angeles
If an epiphyte falls in the forest, why does it die? Experimentally testing drivers of vascular epiphyte mortality
Michelle Elise Spicer, University of Puget Sound; Josué Ortega, Yaguará Panamá; Walter P. Carson, University of Pittsburgh
Wind disturbance impacts on nutrient cycling across tropical forests
Barbara Bomfim, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; William H. McDowell, University of New Hampshire; Jess Zimmerman, University of Puerto Rico; Anthony Walker, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Lara M. Kueppers, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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