8:00 AM: Lebrija-Trejos, Edwin^*,1, Bongers, Frans^*,1, Meave, Jorge^*,2, Pérez-García , Eduardo^*,2, ¹ Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands² Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, D.F., México, Successional change and recovery rates in a secondary tropical dry forest: Contrasts between dry and wet forests.

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8:20 AM: Schwartz, Miguel^*,1, Christensen, Norm¹, Peet, Robert², ¹ Duke University, Durham, NC² University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Herbaceous community change in pine-dominated stands of the Piedmont over a 23 year interval.

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8:40 AM: Franklin, Janet^*,1, ¹ San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA, Spatial pattern of early and late successional rain forest trees in Tonga, West Polynesia: Density dependence or dispersal limitations?

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9:00 AM: Aronson, Myla^*,1, Handel, Steven¹, ¹ Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, Past, present and future of a suburban old growth forest: Vegetation change and exotic species invasions over 50 years.

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9:50 AM: Knutson, Kevin^*,1, Pyke, David², ¹ Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA² U.S. Geological Survey, Corvallis, OR, USA, Analysis of ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) and western juniper (Juniperus occidentalis) growth patterns in central Oregon using tree-ring indices.

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10:10 AM: Kaye, Margot¹, ¹ The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, Synchronized aspen recruitment from Wyoming to Arizona coincides with large-scale shifts in Euro-American settlement and climate.

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10:30 AM: Price, Charles^*,1, Enquist, Brian¹, ¹ University of Arizona, Tucson, Az, Body size, geomorphology and zero-sum dynamics.

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10:50 AM: Peterson, Chris^*,1, Haines, Bruce¹, ¹ University of Georgia, Athens, GA, U.S.A., Woody colonists in Costa Rican premontane successional pastures are more common on microscale slopes than level ground.

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11:10 AM: McClearn, Deedra¹, Campos, Leonel¹, Clark, Deborah ², Clark, David², ¹ Organization for Tropical Studies, San Jose, Costa Rica² University of Missouri, St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, Dipteryx panamensis trees: Growth and fruit production in a lowland Costa Rican forest.

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