8:00 AM: Lin, Teng-Chiu ^*,1, Hamburg, Steven ², Wang, Lih-Jih³, King, Hen-Biau⁴, Hsia, Yue-Joe⁵, Lin, Kuo-Chuan⁴, ¹ National Changhua University of Education, Changhua, Taiwan² Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA³ National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan⁴ Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, Taipei, Taiwan⁵ National Donghwa University, Shou-Feng, Hualien, Taiwan, Impact of annual typhoon disturbance on forest dynamics on a subtropical.

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8:20 AM: SATO, Tamotsu¹, SAITO, Satoshi², KOMINAMI, Yohsuke³, NIIYAMA, Kaoru¹, TANOUCHI, Hiroyuki¹, NAGAMATSU, Dai⁴, ¹ Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, JAPAN² Kyushu Research Institute, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, JAPAN³ Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, Shizuoka, JAPAN⁴ Tottori University, Tottori, Tottori, JAPAN, Comparison of litterfall dynamics resulting from severe typhoon disturbances in lucidophyllous forests, southwestern Japan.

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8:40 AM: Vandermeer, John^*,1, ¹ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, Tropical cyclone disturbance and forest dynamics at multiple temporal scales: Results from long-term studies in the new and old worlds.

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9:00 AM: Schowalter, Timothy^*,1, Wu, Wen-Jer², Luh, Hang-Kwang³, Chao, Jung-Tai⁴, ¹ Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA² National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan³ Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA⁴ Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, Taipei, Taiwan, Forest canopy arthropod responses to cyclone disturbance in Taiwan and Puerto Rico.

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9:20 AM: LI, J.H.¹, SEILER, T.J ¹, POWELL, T.L. ¹, ANDERSON, H.P. ¹, HINKLE, C.R. ², DRAKE, B.G. ¹, ¹ Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD 21037, USA² Dynamac Corp., Kennedy Space Center, FL 32899, USA, Hurricane-caused defoliation and post-hurricane refoliation at elevated CO₂ in a scrub-oak ecosystem.

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9:50 AM: MacKenzie, Richard^*,1, Cormier, Nicole¹, Kauffman, J.¹, Ewel, Katherine¹, Demopoulos, Amanda², Iwomoto, Melissa³, ¹ Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry, Honolulu, HI, USA² Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, USA³ University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA, An ecological pulse to quantify the effects of Typhoon Sudal on coastal ecosystems of Yap, Federated States of Micronesia.

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10:10 AM: Powell, Thomas^*,1, Bracho, Rosvel², Hinkle, Charles³, Drake, Bert¹, ¹ Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD² National Research Council, Kennedy Space Center, FL³ Dynamac Corporation, Kennedy Space Center, FL, The impact of hurricanes Charley, Frances, and Jeanne on net ecosystem carbon exchange of a scrub oak ecosystem in central Florida.

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10:30 AM: Boose, Emery^*,1, ¹ Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA, Temporal patterns of hurricane disturbance at Harvard Forest and Luquillo LTER sites.

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10:50 AM: Brokaw, Nick ¹, ¹ University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA, Variable forest response to hurricanes.

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