8:00 AM

Del Grosso, Stephen1, 2, Parton, William*,2, Stohlgren, Thomas2, 3, Zheng, Daolan4, Bachelet, Dominique5, Prince, Stephen6, Hibbard, Kathy7, Olson, Richard8, 1 USDA Agricultural Research Service, Fort Collins, CO2 Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO3 US Geological Survey, Fort Collins, CO4 University of Toledo, Toledo, OH5 Oregon State University, Olympia, WA6 University of Maryland, College Park, MD7 National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO8 Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, Abiotic controls on land cover type and net primary production.

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8:20 AM

Wyatt, Julie*,1, Silman, Miles1, 1 Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC, The legacy of logging on spatial and temporal patterns among herbaceous species within Southern Appalachian cove forests.

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8:40 AM

Dovciak, Martin*,1, Halpern, Charles1, 1 University of Washington, Seattle, Seattle, WA, Diversity versus population variability in forest herbs during 40 years of forest succession.

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9:00 AM

Stegen, James*,1, Swenson, Nathan1, Enquist, Brian1, 1 University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, Estimating above ground biomass in forests across the new world.

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9:20 AM

Rocchini, Duccio*,1, Bacaro, Giovanni1, Heinken, Thilo2, Diekmann, Martin3, Gégout, Jean-Claude4, Chiarucci, Alessandro1, 1 University of Siena, Siena, Italy2 University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany3 University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany4 Ecole Nationale du Génie Rural, des Eaux et des Forêts, Nancy, France, Species similarity decay in forest ecosystems of Europe: the role of regional heterogeneity and dispersal strategy.

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9:40 AM

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9:50 AM

Feeley, Kenneth*,1, Davies, Stuart1, Potts, Matthew2, Asheton, Peter1, Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh3, Kassim, Abdul Rahman4, Noor, Md. Nur Supardi4, Tan, Sylvester5, 1 Center for Tropical Forest Science, Cambridge, MA2 University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL3 Thai National Park Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department, Bangkok, Thailand4 Forest Research Institute of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia5 Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Succession, sampling biases, and biomass dynamics of old-growth tropical forests.

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10:10 AM

Gomez-Aparicio, Lorena*,1, Canham, Charles1, 1 Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY, USA, Neighborhood analyses of the impacts of invasive tree species on ecosystem processes.

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10:30 AM

Bohlman, Stephanie*,1, Purves, Drew1, Pacala, Steve1, 1 Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, Overstory crown characteristics and species composition affect subcanopy composition and function in a tropical forest.

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10:50 AM

Coe, Natalie*,1, Valliere, Justin 1, Sleith, Robin1, George, Adam 1, Adirisio, Adam1, 1 Green Mountain College, Poultney, VT, Resistance to Beech Bark Disease: nature and nurture in the New England forest.

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