8:00 AM

Styers, Diane*,1, Chappelka, Arthur1, 1 Auburn University, Auburn, AL, Urbanization effects on forest condition in the Georgia Piedmont.

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8:20 AM

Fei, Songlin*,1, Steiner, Kim2, 1 University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY2 The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, Irreversible red maple expansion?

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8:40 AM

Griggs, Jennifer 1, Webster, Christopher*,1, Jenkins, Michael2, Rock, Janet2, 1 Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI2 National Park Service, Gatlinburg, TN, Simplified floral diversity and the legacy of deer overabundance in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

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9:00 AM

Ristau, Todd*,1, 1 USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Warren, PA, Understory vegetation recovery from the seed bank following herbicide application in northern hardwood forests.

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9:20 AM

Horsley, Stephen*,1, Bailey, Scott2, Long, Robert, 1 USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station, Irvine, PA2 USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station, Campton, NH, Implications of thirty years of change in forest soils for sugar maple decline.

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9:40 AM

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9:50 AM

Spetich, Martin*,1, 1 USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Hot Springs, AR, Oak decline forest dynamics in an Arkansas oak-hickory forest.

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10:10 AM

Proença, Vânia*,1, Pereira, Henrique2, Vicente, Luís1, 1 Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal2 Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, Patterns of plant diversity in native and non native forests in the north of Portugal.

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10:30 AM

Will-Wolf, Susan*,1, Trest, Marie1, Reis, Anne1, 1 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA, Lichens, trees, and lichen tissue sulfur: interaction of land use and natural processes.

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10:50 AM

Rebbeck, Joanne *,1, Long, Robert1, Yaussy, Daniel1, 1 USDA Forest Service, Delaware, OH, Effects of two prescribed fires on sapling and seedling mortality in thinned and unthinned Ohio mixed oak forests over six years.

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