1:30 PM: Yoshida, Takehito^*,1, ¹ Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Ecological stoichiometry and the shape of resource-based tradeoffs.

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1:50 PM: MacDonald, Douglas^*,1, Kiniry, Jim², Arnold, Jeff², Putz, Gordon³, Russell, Jonathan⁴, Prepas, Ellie¹, ¹ Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada² United States Department of Agriculture, Temple, Texas, USA³ University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada⁴ Millar Western Forest Products Ltd., Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Modifying and coupling a simple growth model (ALMANAC) with a watershed-scale model (SWAT) to evaluate harvest impacts on streamflow on the Boreal Plain.

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2:10 PM: Calogeropoulos, Catherine^{*,1, 2}, Greene, David^{*,1, 2}, Dayanandan, Selvadurai^{*,1, 2}, ¹ Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada² Groupe de Recherche en Ecologie Forestiere interuniversitaire, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, A test of the inverse modeling approach using molecular markers.

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2:30 PM: Prepas, Ellie^*,1, Smith, Daniel², Putz, Gordon³, Russell, Jonathan⁴, Burke, Janice¹, ¹ Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada² University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada³ University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada⁴ Millar Western Forest Products Ltd., Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Integration of hydrological modeling in small watersheds into industrial forest planning in Alberta: the Forest Watershed and Riparian Disturbance (FORWARD) project.

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2:50 PM: Venier, Lisa^*,1, Pearce, Jennie¹, Wintle, Brendan², Bekessey, Sarah³, ¹ Canadian Forest Service, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada² University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia³ RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Dynamic landscape metapopulation models for sustainable forest management.

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3:20 PM: Larocque, Guy¹, Archambault, Louis², Delisle, Claude², ¹ Natural Resources Canada, Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Canada² Natural Resources Canada, Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Canada, Use of historical data to validate the ZELIG model for balsam fir-red spruce-yellow birch and yellow birch-sugar maple-balsam fir mixedwood ecosystems in southern Quebec, Canada.

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3:40 PM: MacFarlane, David^*,1, Kobe, Richard^*,1, ¹ Department of Forestry, East Lansing, MI, USA, Modeling tree size effects on growth-resource relationships.

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4:00 PM: Kim, Hyun-Seok^*,1, Palmroth, Sari¹, Therezien, Mathieu¹, McCarthy, Heather¹, Parashkevov, Yavor¹, Oren, Ram¹, ¹ Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC, U.S.A, Light distribution in a mixed species canopy based on constant versus variable clumping factor and leaf angle distribution.

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4:20 PM: CASELLA, Eric^*,1, SINOQUET, Hervé², ¹ FOREST RESEARCH, The Research Agency of the Forestry Commission, Farnham, Surrey, United Kingdom² UMR 547 PIAF Tree Ecophysiology, INRA-Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France, Determinants of foliage clumping in two-year-old short rotation coppice poplar canopies: assessment from 3-D plant mock-ups.

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4:40 PM: Bunker, Daniel^*,1, Stark, Scott², Carson, Walter², ¹ Columbia University, New York, NY, USA² University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Competition for light between plant species with complex canopies: Using invasibility criteria to predict competitive outcomes.

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