1:30 PM: Canham, Charles¹, ¹ Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY, Great Mountain Forest revisited: Neighborhood dynamics of a northeastern forest.

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1:50 PM: Messier, Christian^*,1, Papaik, Michael¹, Fortin, Marie-Josée², Fall, Andrew³, Sturtevant, Brian⁴, Kneeshaw, Daniel¹, ¹ GREFi, Dép. Sciences Biologiques, Montréal, Québec, Canada² Dept. of Zoology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada³ Gowlland Technologies Ltd., Victoria, BC, Canada⁴ USFS North Central Research Station, Rhinelander, WI, USA, Modeling sustainable forest management at various scales.

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2:10 PM: Coates, K. David^*,1, ¹ British Columbia Forest Service, Smithers, BC, Canada, Use of spatially explicit models for forest management.

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2:30 PM: Scheller, Robert^*,1, Mladenoff, David¹, ¹ Dept. Forest Ecology & Management, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, Incorporating ecosystem processes into a spatially interactive disturbance and succession model: A case study of potential climate change effects across a forested landscape.

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2:50 PM: Dietze, Michael^*,1, Agarwal, Pankaj¹, Chakraborty, Sukhendu, Clark, James¹, Govindarajan, Sathish¹, McBride, Allen¹, Wolosin, Michael¹, ¹ Duke University, Durham, NC, Data assimilation, inference, and prediction in a hierarchical forest model.

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3:20 PM: Spies, Thomas^*,1, Johnson, Norman², Pabst, Robert², Bettinger, Pete³, Garman, Steven⁴, ¹ USDA Forest Service, PNW Research Station, Corvallis, OR² Oregon State University, College of Forestry, Corvallis, OR³ University of Georgia, Warnell School of Forest Resources, Athens, GA⁴ National Park Service, Canyonlands National Park, Moab, UT, Modeling regional implications of local forest management decisions.

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3:40 PM: Pacala, Stephen^*,1, Purves, Drew¹, Ogle, Kiona¹, Lichstein, Jeremy¹, Wirth, Christian¹, Chen, Anping¹, Shevliakova, Elena¹, Malyshev, Sergey¹, Strigul, Nikolay¹, ¹ Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, Towards a global individual-based model of forest dynamics.

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4:00 PM: Uriarte, Maria^{*,1, 2}, Canham, Charles², Thompson, Jill³, Zimmerman, Jess³, Brokaw, Nick³, ¹ Dept of Ecology, Evolution and Ennvironmental Biology, New York, NY² Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY³ Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Studies, Rio Piedras, Models as tools for understanding the effects of hurricanes on tropical forests.

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4:20 PM: Coomes, David ^{*,1, 2}, Allen, Robert², ¹ University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK² Landcare Research, Christchurch, New Zealand, The inclusion of scaling theory into models of population dynamics.

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