8:00 AM Wessell, Stephanie^*,1, Schmitz, Richard¹, Olson, Deanna², ¹ Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA² USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, OR, USA Leave islands as refugia for low-mobility species in managed forests of the Pacific Northwest.

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8:20 AM Kashian, Daniel^*,1, Romme, William¹, Regan, Claudia², ¹ Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado² USDA Forest Service Region Two, Lakewood, Colorado Variable trajectories of aspen succession and decline in the northern Colorado Front Range.

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8:40 AM Welch, David ^{*,1, 2}, Meretsky, Vicky ^{1, 2}, ¹ Indiana University, Bloomington, IN² Center for the Study of Institutions, Populations, and Environmental Change (CIPEC), Bloomington, IN Spatial patterns of forest regrowth in old fields: Ghosts of land use past.

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9:00 AM Reemts, Charlotte^*,1, Ellair, Darin¹, Murphy, Peter¹, ¹ Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Edge effects in old growth forests.

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9:20 AM Thomas, Sean^*,1, ¹ Faculty of Forestry, Toronto, ON, Canada Structure and floristic composition of selection-managed vs. ancient forest remnants in a northern hardwood forest.

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9:50 AM Small, Christine^*,1, ¹ Connecticut College, New London, CT, cjsma@conncoll.edu Fifty years of vegetation change in the Connecticut College Arboretum relative to site conditions and historical disturbance.

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10:10 AM Black, Bryan¹, Abrams, Marc², ¹ Hatfield Marine Science Center, Newport, OR² Penn State University, University Park, PA Applicability of boundary-line release criteria to North American tree species.

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10:30 AM MOHAN, JACQUELINE^*,1, BAZZAZ, FAKHRI¹, BURROWS, ELIZABETH², LUX, HEIDI², MELILLO, JERRY², ¹ Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA² The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, USA Soil warming hastens successional dynamics in a temperate forest ecosystem.

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10:50 AM Stulz, Christopher^*,1, Gehring, Catherine¹, Whitham, Thomas¹, ¹ Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ Conditional plant interactions: Switch from facilitation to competition across an elevational gradient.

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11:10 AM Flinn, Kathryn^*,1, Vellend, Mark¹, Marks, P.¹, ¹ Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Environmental causes and consequences of disturbance: Topography, forest soils and agricultural land use in central New York.

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