Poster # 137. Lindh, Briana^*,1, ¹ Willamette University, Salem, OR Modeling the effects of conifer basal area on understory herb presence and flowering.

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Poster # 138. Busing, Richard¹, Solomon, Allen², ¹ USGS, Corvallis, Oregon² USEPA, Corvallis, Oregon Performance of a forest dynamics model in the Pacific Northwest.

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Poster # 139. Bakker, Jonathan^*,1, ¹ Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ A comparison of two methods for reconstructing historical tree diameters.

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Poster # 140. MUZIKA, R^*,1, GUYETTE, R¹, ¹ University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, USA Using dendrochronology to reconstruct the effects of climate and host condition on a wood boring insect.

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Poster # 141. Peng, Changhui^*,1, Zhou, Xiaolu^{1, 2}, Dang, Qinglai², Parton, Suzanne ³, ¹ Institute of Envronment Sciences, Moreal, QC, Canada² Faculty of Forestry, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada³ Lake Abitibi Model Forest, Cochrane, ON, Canada Predicting boreal forest growth and yield under a changing climate in Ontario.

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Poster # 142. Hoover, Coeli ^*,1, Stout, Susan², ¹ USDA Forest Service, NE Research Station, Durham, NH, USA² USDA Forest Service, NE Research Station, Irvine, PA, USA The carbon consequences of forest thinning: Results from a long-term study in Allegheny hardwoods.

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Poster # 143. Beggs, Liane^*,1, Puettmann, Klaus^*,1, ¹ Department of Forest Science, Corvallis, OR, U.S.A. Understory vegetation response to alternative thinning treatments in young Douglas-fir stands.

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Poster # 144. Alaback, Paul^*,1, Casey, Dee¹, ¹ University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States Effects of thinning on forest understory vegetation structure in southeast Alaska.

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Poster # 145. Bickford, Christopher ^*,1, Kolb, Thomas¹, Geils, Brian², ¹ Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ² USDA Forest Service, Flagstaff, AZ Effects of thinning on dwarf mistletoe shoot growth in ponderosa pine stands.

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Poster # 146. Nonaka, Etsuko¹, Spies, Thomas², Wimberly, Michael³, Ohmann, Janet², ¹ Department of Forest Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA² USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, OR, USA³ Warnell School of Forest Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA Histrorical range of variability in biomass dynamics and stand disturbance history: A simulation approach.

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Poster # 147. Thiffault, Evelyne^*,1, Munson, Alison¹, Bélanger, Nicolas ², Paré, David³, ¹ Université Laval, Ste-Foy, Québec, Canada² Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada³ Centre de foresterie des Laurentides, Québec, Québec, Canada Sustainability of forest site productivity: How do harvesting methods compare with natural disturbances?

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Poster # 148. Ahrens, Jean^*,1, Hall, Sharon ¹, Marchand, Peter², Johnson, Samuel³, ¹ The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO² Catamount Biological Field Station, Woodland Park, CO³ The Colorado Springs School, Colorado Springs, CO Checking the forest pulse 20 years after disturbance: Effects of forest thinning on community and ecosystem dynamics.

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Poster # 149. Stan, Amanda^*,1, DANIELS, L¹, ¹ University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Radial-growth release of gap-boundary trees in coastal old-growth forests, British Columbia, Canada.

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Poster # 150. Voelker, Steven ^*,1, Muzika, Rose-Marie¹, ¹ University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA Trade-offs associated with disturbance return interval and juvenile growth rates of red oaks.

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Poster # 151. Yorks, Thad^*,1, Adams, Kenneth², ¹ Division of Humanities, Natural Sciences, and Education, Cazenovia, NY² Plattsburgh State University, Plattsburgh, NY, 12901 Ice storm impact and management implications for jack pine and pitch pine stands in New York, USA.

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Poster # 152. Hibbs, David ^*,1, Shatford, Jeff¹, ¹ Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR Predicting input of riparian trees in western Oregon.

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Poster # 153. Tang, Xuli^*,1, Liu, Shuguang², Zhou, Guoyi¹, ¹ South China Botanical Garden, Guangzhou, China² EROS Data Center, Sioux Falls, SD, USA Characteristics of coarse woody debris in an old-growth forest, southern China.

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Poster # 154. Sugden-Newbery, Anna^*,1, Turner, Monica¹, ¹ University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI Forest community composition in riparian and upland sites in the Northern Highlands Lake District, Wisconsin, USA.

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Poster # 155. Runkle, James^*,1, ¹ Wright State U, Dayton, OH Snag dynamics in mesic old-growth eastern forests.

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Poster # 156. Chandy, Shibi^*,1, Gibson, David¹, Robertson, Philip¹, ¹ Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, USA Additive partitioning of diversity through spatial scales and short temporal span across the Shawnee National Forest, Illinois.

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Poster # 157. Riley, Tim¹, Antell, Karen¹, ¹ Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR, 97850 Tree distribution on the Rebarrow Research Forest, Blue Mountains, Oregon.

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Poster # 158. Wayman, Rebecca^*,1, North, Malcolm², ¹ University of California, Davis, CA² USFS PSW Sierra Nevada Research Center, Davis, CA Initial response of understory plants to burning and logging in a Sierra mixed conifer forest.

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Poster # 159. Pittman, Judd^*,1, Copenheaver, Carolyn¹, ¹ Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA The influence of historic logging activities in Giles County, Virginia.

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Poster # 160. Ostoja, Steven ^*,, Klinger, Robert , Variation in floristic composition and determinants of diversity between bishop pine forest stands on Santa Cruz Island, California.

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Poster # 161. Murray, K. Greg^*,1, Atwell, Jonathan¹, ¹ Hope College, Holland, MI, USA Nineteen years of gap dynamics in a Costa Rican cloud forest.

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Poster # 162. Lake, Jeffrey^*,1, Hubbell, Stephen¹, ¹ University of Georgia, Athens, GA Liana biomass and woody stem size structure in a tropical forest, Barro Colorado Island, Panama.

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Poster # 163. Jha, Shalene¹, Harcombe, Paul^*,1, Fulton, Mark², Elsik, I¹, ¹ Rice University, Houston, TX² Bemidji State University, Bemidji, MN Potential Causes of American Beech decline in Wier Woods, Texas.

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Poster # 164. McKinney, Shawn^*,1, Tomback, Diana², ¹ University of Montana, Missoula, MT² University of Colorado-Denver, Denver, CO Evaluating natural selection as a management strategy for restoring whitebark pine.

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Poster # 165. Littell, Jeremy^*,1, Peterson, David², ¹ University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA² USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, Seattle, WA, USA Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) growth response to climate variability along biophysical gradients.

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Poster # 166. Thomas, Dana¹, Stevens, M. Henry ^*,1, Keiffer, Carolyn¹, ¹ Miami University, Oxford, OH Morphological and physiological tradeoffs of American chestnut and other hardwoods in varying nutrient and light regimes.

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Poster # 167. Bluhm, Andrew^*,1, Hibbs, David¹, ¹ Department of Forest Science, Corvallis, OR, USA Testing assumptions about stand development: Effects of stand density and site quality.

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Poster # 168. Madson, Stephanie^*,1, Markewitz, Daniel¹, ¹ University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602 A new scorecard method for rapid assessment of sustainability of forest ecosystem function.

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Poster # 169. Lyon, Jonathan^*,1, Gross, Nicole^*,1, ¹ Merrimack College, North Andover, MA Patterns of woody plant diversity and plant-environmental relationships across three riparian corridors.

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Poster # 170. Kennedy, Rebecca^{*,1, 2, 3}, Olsen, Keith², Pabst, Robert ², Spies, Thomas^{1, 2}, ¹ USDA Forest Service, Corvallis, OR² Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR³ rebecca.kennedy@oregonstate.edu, Corvallis, OR Simulating dead wood dynamics over the next centuries in a landscape characterized by disturbance: The coastal province of Oregon, USA.

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Poster # 171. Hane, Elizabeth^*,1, ¹ Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY Multifactor effects on tree regeneration and herbaceous community dynamics in the northern hardwood forest.

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Poster # 172. Gilbert, John^*,1, Meldahl, Ralph¹, Kush, John¹, Boyer, William², ¹ Auburn University, Auburn University, Alabama, USA² USDA Forest Service, Auburn, Alabama, USA Effect of the environment on the growth of young longleaf pine.

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Poster # 173. Case, Michael^*,1, Peterson, David², ¹ University of Washington-Seattle, Seattle, WA² USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Seattle, WA Fine-scale variability in growth-climate relationships of Douglas-fir, North Cascade Range, Washington.

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Poster # 174. Fulton, Mark^*,1, Harcombe, Paul², ¹ Bemidji State University, Bemidji, Minnesota, USA² Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA Fine-scale predictability of forest community change: Varying the spatial and temporal windows.

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Poster # 175. D'Amato, Anthony^{*,1, 2}, Orwig, David², ¹ Department of Natural Resources Conservation, Amherst, MA, USA² Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA, USA Old-growth forest composition and structure in the Cold River Gorge, Massachusetts.

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Poster # 176. Barrett, Nels¹, Metzler, Kenneth², McVey, Shawn¹, ¹ USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service, Tolland, CT, USA² Geological and Natural History Survey of Connecticut, Hartford, CT, USA Ash-hickory woodland glades: An ecologically-distinctive vegetation type of northwestern Connecticut, USA.

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Poster # 177. Romero-Saltos, Hugo^*,1, Sternberg, Leonel¹, Moreira, Marcelo², Nepstad, Daniel³, ¹ University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, USA² Universidad de São Paulo (CENA), Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil³ The Woods Hole Research Center, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA Effect of rainfall exclusion on soil moisture movement and depth of water uptake by Amazonian trees.

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Poster # 178. Bigelow, Seth^*,1, North, Malcolm^{1, 2}, Horwath, William³, ¹ Sierra Nevada Research Center, Davis, CA, USA² Department of Environmental Horticulture, Davis, CA, USA³ Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, CA, USA Soil moisture affects conifer shade tolerance.

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Poster # 179. Devine, Warren^*,1, Harrington, Constance¹, ¹ USDA Forest Service PNW Research Station, Olympia, WA, USA Root system morphology of Oregon white oak (Quercus garryana Dougl. ex Hook.) in coarse-textured soils.

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Poster # 180. Yanai, Ruth^*,1, Park, Byung Bae¹, Hamburg, Steve², ¹ State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY, USA² Brown University, Providence, RI, USA Root distribution with depth in young and old northern hardwood stands measured using quantitative soil pits.

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Poster # 181. Woods, Kerry ¹, ¹ Natural Sciences, Bennington, VT, 05201 Rooting of prostrate stems: A life-history trait in suppressed Acer saccharum seedlings.

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Poster # 182. Will, Rodney^*,1, ¹ University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602 The effects of nutrient availability on the fascicle morphology of different aged loblolly pine stands.

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Poster # 183. Asshoff, Roman^*,1, Zotz, Gerhard¹, Körner, Christian¹, ¹ Universität Basel, Basel, Switzerland Phenology and growth of mature temperate forest trees at elevated CO₂.

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Poster # 184. Wang, Geoff ^*,1, Chhin, Sophan², Bauerle, William³, ¹ Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Clemson, SC, USA² Department of Renewable Resources, Edmonton, AB, Canada³ Department of Horticulture, Clemson, SC, USA The effect of natural atmospheric CO₂ fertilization suggested by open-grown white spruce in a dry environment.

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Poster # 186. Ring, Seth^*,1, ¹ Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR Arthropod diversity and functional group structure in rotting logs of Northwest old growth forest.

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Poster # 187. Crutcher, Candice^*,1, Wayson, Craig¹, ¹ Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Fine root dynamics in a mid-latitude deciduous forest.

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Poster # 188. beiler, kevin^*,1, gehring, catherine ¹, theimer, tad¹, ¹ Northern arizona university, flagstaff, arizona, usa Ectomycorrhizal fungal responses to restoration of a southwest ponderosa pine forest: Implications for tassel-eared squirrels.

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Poster # 189. Miadlikowska, Jolanta¹, Arnold, A. Elizabeth¹, Lutzoni, Francois¹, ¹ Department of Biology, Durham, North Carolina, USA Diversity of cryptic fungi inhabiting healthy lichen thalli in a temperate and tropical forest.

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Poster # 190. Arnold, A. Elizabeth¹, Sarvate, Snehal¹, Lutzoni, Francois¹, ¹ Department of Biology, Durham, North Carolina, USA Diversity and specificity of endophytic fungi associated with representatives of major plant lineages in a temperate forest.

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Poster # 191. Eells, Rebecca¹, Henk, Daniel¹, Arnold, A. Elizabeth¹, Lutzoni, Francois¹, Vilgalys, Rytas ¹, ¹ Department of Biology, Durham, North Carolina, USA Assessing diversity of foliar fungal endophytes in a mature loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) plantation.

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Poster # 192. Reynolds, Barbara¹, Hunter, Mark², ¹ University of North Carolina - Asheville, Asheville, NC² University of Georgia, Athens, GA Nitrogen and carbon inputs from canopy herbivores : Comparing outbreak and endemic levels of herbivory.

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Poster # 193. O'Connell, Kari^{*,1, 2}, Harmon, Mark ¹, Bruner, Howard ¹, Spycher, Gody¹, ¹ Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA² H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, Blue River, OR, USA Long-term aboveground carbon accumulation in Douglas-fir forests of the Pacific Northwest: A new approach.

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Poster # 194. Mullin, Brady^*,1, Tuininga, Amy¹, Dighton, John², Van Horn, Meghan¹, Huskins, Rebecca¹, Vargas, Alan¹, ¹ Fordham University, Armonk, NY² Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Ericaceous control of phosphorus availability following fire: interactions between ectomycorrhizal pitch pine (Pinus rigida) and ericoid mycorrhizal blueberry plants (Vaccinium angustifolium).

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Poster # 195. KNOWLES, REBECCA^*,1, PASTOR, JOHN², BIESBOER, DAVID¹, SNYDER, JOHN³, ¹ University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota² Natural Resources Research Institute, University of Minnesota-Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota³ Voyageurs National Park, National Park Service, International Falls, Minnesota Increased soil nitrogen associated with dinitrogen-fixing, terricolous lichens of the genus Peltigera in northern Minnesota.

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Poster # 196. KIM, DONG^*,1, PARK, IN², JIN, HYUN³, SON, YOWHAN⁴, YI, MYOUNG⁵, ¹ Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea² Sunchon National University, Sunchon, Korea³ Kyunghee University, Yongin, Korea⁴ Korea University, Seoul, Korea⁵ Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Korea Effects of site conditions on vegetation development of the oak stands in Korea.

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Poster # 197. KIM, R.H.^*,1, SON, Y.¹, Park, I.H.², YI, M.J.³, JIN, H.O.⁴, KIM, D.Y.⁵, ¹ Korea University, Seoul, Korea² Sunchon National University, Sunchon, Korea³ Kangwon National University, Chunchun, Korea⁴ Kyunghee University, Suwon, Korea⁵ Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea Biomass and nutrients distribution in a natural oak forest in southern Korea.

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Poster # 198. Kelsey, Rick^*,, Manter, Daniel, Swiss needle cast effects on Douglas-fir stem ethanol, oleoresin, and Douglas-fir beetle host selection.

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Poster # 199. Kageyama, Stacie^*,1, Posavatz, Nancy¹, Jones, Sarah¹, Waterstripe, Kirk¹, Bottomley, Peter¹, Cromack , Kermit¹, Myrold, David¹, ¹ Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon Changes in bacterial and fungal communities following reciprocal transplant in forest and meadow sites in the Oregon Cascades.

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Poster # 200. Hynes, Meagan^*,1, Zasoski, Robert ¹, Bledsoe, Caroline ¹, ¹ University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA Phosphorus and potassium leakage from mycorrhizal and uninoculated roots of Quercus douglasii.

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Poster # 201. SMITH, J¹, HEATH, L^*,1, WOODBURY, P¹, ¹ Northeastern Research Station, Durham, NH, USA Standard forest carbon stocks and stock change for forest types of the U.S.

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Poster # 202. Eaton, James^*,1, Lawrence, Deborah¹, ¹ University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA The effects of age, cultivation history, and precipitation on forest carbon budgets of the southern Yucatan.

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Poster # 203. DRONOVA, IRYNA^*,1, ELLSWORTH, DAVID¹, ¹ University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Variation in carbon storage among landscape ecosystems at the University of Michigan Biological Station.

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Poster # 204. Butcher, LaDean^{*,1, 2}, Middleton, Elizabeth^*,1, Entcheva-Campbell, Petya^{1, 3}, Corp, Lawrence^{*,1, 2}, McMurtrey, James², ¹ NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA² USDA Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, MD, USA³ University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, 21250 Effects of excess nitrogen on red maple, sweet gum and tulip poplar.

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Poster # 205. Borden, Kara¹, BassiriRad, Hormoz¹, ¹ University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL Differential effects of inorganic nitrogen forms on growth and biomass allocation responses of Acer saccharinum and Ulmus americanum seedlings to CO₂ enrichment.

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Poster # 206. Edmonds, Robert^*,1, McAfee, Stephanie¹, Mollett, Lauren¹, ¹ University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA Relationships between overstory litterfall and climate in an old-growth temperate rainforest, Olympic Peninsula, Washington.

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Poster # 207. Rivera-Monroy, Victor¹, Ewe, Sharon^*,2, Twilley, Robert¹, Coronado-Mollina, Carlos³, Castaneda, Edward ¹, Grahl, Timothy², ¹ University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA² Southeast Environmental Research Center, Miami, FL³ South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach, FL Leaf productivity in Florida coastal Everglades mangrove forests.

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Poster # 208. French, Jennifer^*,1, ¹ University Of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA Is western hemlock dwarf mistletoe a keystone resource for insects in Pacific Northwest old-growth forests?

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Poster # 209. Pecot, Stephen^*,1, Mitchell, Robert¹, Palik, Brian², ¹ Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center, Newton, GA, USA² USDA Forest Service, North Central Research Station, Grand Rapids, MN, USA Competitive response to overstory disturbance in a longleaf pine forest: Separating above- and belowground effects.

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Poster # 210. Halpern, Charles ^*,1, McKenzie, Donald², Evans, Shelley¹, Saracco, James³, Maguire, Douglas ⁴, Halaj, Juraj⁵, ¹ University of Washington, Seattle, WA² United States Forest Service, Seattle, WA³ The Institute for Bird Populations, Pt. Reyes Station, CA⁴ Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR⁵ Cascadien, Inc., Corvallis, OR Vegetation responses to varying levels and patterns of overstory retention: Early results of the DEMO experiment.

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Poster # 211. Fiala, Anne¹, Gray, Andrew², Garman, Steven³, ¹ The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA² USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, OR³ National Park Service, Moab, UT Patterns of canopy structural diversity in the managed forests of western Oregon.

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Poster # 212. Allen, Elizabeth^*,1, Nowak, Robert², ¹ University of Nevada-Reno, Reno, NV² University of Nevada-Reno, Reno, NV Effects of overstory density on seed banks in pinyon-juniper woodlands.

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Poster # 213. Schupp, Eugene^*,1, Gómez, José², Fuentes, Marcelino³, ¹ Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA² Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain³ Universidade da Coruña, La Coruña, Spain Spatial and microhabitat patterns of tree recruitment in three juniper woodlands in west-central Utah, USA.

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Poster # 216. Bonnet, Véronique¹, Schoettle, Anna¹, Joyce, Linda¹, ¹ Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fort Collins, CO Combined effects of competition and burn treatments on Pinus ponderosa germination and survival (Black Hills, South Dakota).

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Poster # 217. Ishihara, Masae^*,1, Kikuzawa, Kihachiro¹, ¹ Kyoto University, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan Shoot dynamics in masting species Betula grossa at shoot, branch and inidividual levels.

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Poster # 218. Ibáñez, Inés^*,1, Clark, James S. ¹, LaDeau, Shannon¹, ¹ Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA Regional and temporal variability on habitat suitability for seedling establishment.

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Poster # 219. Carper, Sarah^*,1, Tripler, Christopher^{1, 2}, Carreiro, Margaret¹, ¹ University of Louisville, Louisville, KY² IES, Millbrook, NY A comparison of sapling recruitment of eight major tree species between a rural and an urban forest stand in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Poster # 221. Collins, Rachel^*,1, Fetterolf, Julie¹, Redmore, Lauren¹, ¹ Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA White-tailed deer alter herbaceous plant communities through seed dispersal: The effects of deer density.

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Poster # 220. Anderson, M Rebecca^*,1, Anderson, Roger², Goad, Rachel³, ¹ banderso@ilstu.edu, Normal, IL² rcander@ilstu.edu, Normal, IL³ Illinois State University, Normal, IL Seed dispersal and seedling survival in a tropical rainforest emergent tree.

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Poster # 222. Anderson, Jill^*,, Microhabitat associations of neotropical floodplain forest tree seedlings.

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Poster # 223. Maerz, John^*,1, Brown, Carrie¹, Chapin, Carmen², Blossey, Bernd¹, ¹ Ecology and Management of Invasive Plants Program, Ithaca, NY, USA² National Parks Service, Ashalnd, WI, USA The secondary compounds of invasive plants are toxic to larval amphibians.

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