B21L
Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests: Current Progress and Future Promise in the Study of a Unique, Overlooked, and Major Biome I

Tuesday, 15 December 2015: 08:00-10:00
2010 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Jennifer S Powers, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Conveners:  David Medvigy, Princeton University, Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, Xue Feng, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States and Gerardo A Sanchez-Azofeifa, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Chairs:  David Medvigy, Princeton University, Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States and Xue Feng, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Jennifer S Powers, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, Minneapolis, MN, United States
08:00
B21L-01
Biodiversity and functional regeneration during secondary succession in a tropical dry forest: from microorganisms to mammals (Invited) (61525)
Mário Marcos do Espírito Santo1, Frederico S Neves2, Henrique M Valério1, Lemuel O Leite1, Luiz A Falcão2, Magno Borges1, Marina Beirão2, Ronaldo Reis Jr.1, Ricardo Berbara3, Yule R Nunes1, Alex Silva1, Luciana F Silva1, Paulo R Siqueira1 and Rede Mata Secas, (1)Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros, Departamento de Biologia Geral, Montes Claros, Brazil, (2)Universidade Federal de MInas Gerais, Biologia Geral, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, (3)Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Departamento de Solos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
08:12
B21L-02
Modeling forest disturbance and recovery in secondary subtropical dry forests of Puerto Rico (Invited) (63002)
Jennifer A. Holm, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Herman Henry Shugart Jr, University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States and Skip J. Van Bloem, Belle W. Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology and Forest Science, Georgetown, SC, United States
08:24
B21L-03
Emerging deforestation trends in tropical dry forests ecoregions of Mexico and Central America (Invited) (63050)
Carlos Alonso Portillo, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, United States
08:36
B21L-04
Catastrophic ecosystem shifts in dry tropical forest: evidence, mechanisms and implications for climate change (Invited) (63376)
Deborah Lawrence, University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States
08:48
B21L-05
Drought Stress Response of Dry Forest Trees of the Brazilian Caatinga (84439)
MArtin Worbes, University of Göttingen, Crop Sciences, Göttingen, Germany and Romulo Menezes, Universidadae de Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
09:00
B21L-06
Effects of Drought on Carbon Sequestration of Tropical Dry Forest (84103)
Saulo Castro-Contreras and Gerardo A Sanchez-Azofeifa, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
09:12
B21L-07
Reproductive Phenology of a Seasonally-Dry Dipterocarp Forest in Southern Thailand (84020)
Erin Kurten, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
09:24
B21L-08
Carbon, nitrogen cycling and land cover changes during regrowth in African dry tropical forests: integrating perspectives from field and satellite data across a chronosequence in the Miombo Woodlands of western Tanzania (69860)
Marc T Mayes1, Jerry M Melillo2, John F Mustard1, Christopher Neill3 and Gerson Nyadzi4, (1)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, (2)MBL, The Ecosystems Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)Marine Biological Laboratory, Ecosystems Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (4)Millennium Villages Project-Mbola, Tabora, Tanzania
09:36
B21L-09
Creation of Alternate Stable States in Tropical Dry Forests as a Consequence of Human Disturbance (86309)
Skip J. Van Bloem1, Stefanie L Whitmire1 and Jarrod Thaxton2, (1)Belle W. Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology and Forest Science, Georgetown, SC, United States, (2)University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Mayaguez, PR, United States
09:48
B21L-10
A Novel Tropical Dry Forests: A Response to Environmental Change. (79268)
Ariel E. Lugo, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, Rio Piedras, PR, United States and Sandra Molina, Pontificia Universidad Catolica Puerto Rico, Biology, Ponce, PR, United States
 
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