Oral Session #42: Disturbance Ecology: Effects of Storms.

Presiding: A.D. McGuire, University of Alaska.
Tuesday, August 8, 2000
8:15 AM to 12:15 PM
Cottonwood Room II - Sports Event Center

8:15 AM	Characterizing susceptibility to and effects of the January 1998 ice storm in the White Mountain National Forest, NH. RHOADS, A.G. , S.P. HAMBURG, T.J. FAHEY, T.G. SICCAMA, E.N. HANE
8:30 AM	The interactions of multiple disturbances: Effects on northern hardwood forest community structure. HANE, E.N.
8:45 AM	Wind damage and revegetation across 10 years in a hemlock-white pine forest remnant: The importance of severity and pre-disturbance vegetation characteristics. PETERSON, C.J.
9:00 AM	Complexity in ecosystem thermodynamics: Evidence from experiments on a small-scale vegetative system. HAVLICEK, T.D. , T.F.H. ALLEN, J.M. NORMAN
9:15 AM	The role of remnant trees in regeneration of cyclone damaged rain forest. ELMQVIST, T. , M. WALL
9:30 AM	Temporal dynamics of litter carbon and nutrients after hurricane disturbance in three tropical forests. OSTERTAG, R. , F.N. SCATENA, W.L. SILVER
9:45 AM	Typhoon disturbance and dynamics of undercanopy light environments at a subtropical rain forest in Taiwan. LIN, T. , S.P. HAMBURG, H. KING
10:00 AM	Break
10:15 AM	Measure of simultaneous tree sways and estimation of crown interactions among a group of trees. RUDNICKI, M. , U. SILINS, V.J. LIEFFERS, G. JOSI
10:30 AM	Interspecific variation in susceptibility to windthrow as a function of tree size and storm severity for northern temperate tree species. CANHAM, C.D. , M.J. PAPAIK, E.F. LATTY
10:45 AM	The hydrochemical consequence of catastrophic windthrow in a coastal temperate rainforest, High Island, southeast Alaska. KRAMER, M.G. , B.T. BORMANN, S.M. NAY, P. SOLLINS
11:00 AM	Do lianas mask the effects of treefall gaps in a tropical forest: An experimental test. SCHNITZER, S.A. , W.P. CARSON
11:15 AM	Effects of treefalls and topography on species composition and diversity at different spatial scales in a NW Argentina neotropical montane forest. RICARDO GRAU, H.
11:30 AM	Heterogeneity in tropical rain forest structure and dynamics across a terra firme nutrient and topographic gradient. CLARK, D.B. , D.A. CLARK, S.F. OBERBAUER, E. VELDKAMP
11:45 AM	Blowdown dynamics in oak-hickory forests of the Missouri Ozarks. MEIER, A.J. , A.J. REBERTUS
12:00 PM	Disturbance history and stand dynamics along a topographic gradient in old-growth hemlock-northern hardwood forests of the Allegheny Plateau, USA. RUFFNER, C.M. , M.D. ABRAMS