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Scientific ProgramMonday, June 24 – Thursday, June 27

WorkShoPS, BuSineSS meetingS & Plenary SeSSionSSaturday, June 22 – Friday, June 28

Scientific field triPS By the otS BiocurSoS ProgramThursday, June 20 – Sunday, June 30

The 50th Anniversary MeetingAssociAtion for tropicAl Biology And conservAtion (AtBc)

orgAnizAtion for tropicAl studies (ots)

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atBc•otS 2013 Program and organizing committees

introduction and Welcome (by the Program chairs)

about atBc and otS

Supporting academic institutions

general information

instructions for Presenters

floor Plans and maps

exhibits and displays

Schedule Overview

Plenaries, Special events and meetings

Scientific Program Schedule

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ATBC•OTS 2013 progrAM And orgAnizing coMMittee

KAORU KITAJIMA / Program Chair / University of Florida, USACARLOS GARCIA-ROBLEDO / Program Co-chair / Smithsonian Institution, USARAKAN (ZAK) ZAHAWI / Program Co-chair / Organization for Tropical Studies, Costa Rica

scientific progrAM coMMittee

Ellen Andresen / Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, MexicoGerardo Avalos / Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica; The School for Field Studies, USARobin Chazdon / University of Connecticut, USARoberto Cordero / Universidad NacionalRodolfo Dirzo / Stanford University, USAPierre-Michel Forget / Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, FranceJosé Manuel Fragoso / Stanford University, USACarol Horvitz / University of Miami, USAJorge Jiménez / MarViva, Costa RicaW. John Kress / Smithsonian Institution, USAErin Kuprewicz / Organization for Tropical Studies, Costa RicaSusan Laurance / James Cook University, AustraliaAdrián Pinto / University of Costa Rica, Costa RicaTom Ranker / University of Hawaii, USALuitgard Schwendenmann / Auckland University, New Zealand

orgAnizAtion coMMittee

Liana Babbar / Organization for Tropical Studies, Costa RicaRafael Celis / ProDesarrollo Internacional, Costa RicaJulie Denslow / Tulane University, USA; OTS 50th Anniversary ChairGerardo Jiménez Arce / University of Costa Rica, Costa RicaElizabeth Losos / Organization for Tropical Studies, USA; OTS President & CEOTueyni Mwampamba / Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, MéxicoPia Paaby / Organization for Tropical Studies, Costa RicaPia Parolin / University of Hamburg, GermanyMinor Porras / Organization for Tropical Studies, Costa RicaBraulio Vílchez / Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, Costa Rica

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officers And councilorsAssociAtion for tropicAl Biology

LÚCIA G. LOHMANN / President / University of São Paulo, BrazilRICHARD CORLETT / Past President / Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanic Garden, ChinaSUSAN LAURANCE / President Elect / James Cook University, AustraliaW. JOHN KRESS / Executive Director / Smithsonian Institution, USAELLEN ANDRESEN / Secretary / Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morelia, MéxicoKAORU KITAJIMA / Treasurer / University of Florida, USA

Biotropica EDitor Jaboury Ghazoul / ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Biotropica associatE EDitors Marielos Peña-Claros / Wageningen University, The Netherlands Emilio Bruna / University of Florida, USA

WEBsitE EDitor Pierre-Michel Forget / Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, France

councilors 2011-2012 – William A. Hoffmann / North Carolina State University, USA – Tuyeni Mwampamba / Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico – Claudia Romero / University of Florida, USA – María Uriarte / Columbia University, USA

2012-2014 – Simon Lewis / University of Leeds, UK – Vojtech Novotny / Institute of Entomology, Czech Republic – Marisol Toledo / Instituto Boliviano de Investigación Forestal, Bolivia – Peter Zuidema / Wageningen University, The Netherlands

2013-2015 – Christopher Baraloto / INRA, French Guiana – Karina Boege / Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México City, México – Sophie Calmé / Université de Sherbrooke, Canada – Stefan Schnitzer / University of Wisconsin, USA

AtBc conservAtion coMMittee

Jose Fragoso Carlos Roberto FonsecaAlan Andersen Toby GardnerRhett Butler Simon LewisNorbert Cordeiro Tuyeni Mwampamba Christopher Dick Pia Parolin

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Acknowledgements

Peer review of abstracts was conducted by members of the Scientific Program committee,

and by the following individuals: david B. clark, deborah a. clark, douglas futuyma,

carlos de la rosa, terry erwin, orou gaoue, Bette loiselle, helene muller-landau, and Pia Parolin.

We also acknowledge Patricia Sampaio, antonio crespo, gerardo celis, guiselle castro, illeana coto,

cathleen lemoine, helenia Salazar for their contributions to various aspects of meeting preparation,

as well as all student volunteers. Special thanks to gabriela hernandez who was responsible for

all meeting design needs, and to conference exchange for the development of a customized

online system for the preparation of the meeting program and registrations.

We appreciate the financial contributions from chris davidson, Sharon christoph and other

individual donors in support of student participation at atBc and our carbon-offset effort,

and lubee Bat conservancy for support of Bacardi award.

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atBc consErvation committEE activitiEs

CARBoN oFFSETS

Since 2007, ATBC annual meetings aim to offset the large amount of greenhouse gas emissions that are associat-ed with various aspects of these meetings, particularly international travels of delegates. Your contribution will support a regional carbon-offset project where the annual meeting takes place each year. Please make sugges-tions to the Conservation Committee about potential projects that aim to not only offset carbon, but also help biodiversity conservation, sustainable natural resource use, and the well-being of local people. The Conservation Committee will also appreciate comments for improving our efforts toward a “carbon-neutral meeting”. If you have not contributed to carbon offsets during your online registration, you can still make a cash contribution at the ATBC booth.

DECLARATioNS

Since 2007, the ATBC Conservation Committee has worked with local scientists to release a declaration at each annual meeting highlighting key conservation issues that are most relevant to the country and region where the meeting is taking place. Please join the open discussion on June 23 after the opening plenary to provide your input to the ATBC Conservation Committee and help promote awareness and support for local scientists.

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w elcome to ATBC•OTS-2013, a meeting to celebrate five decades of scientific research and educa-tion fostered by ATBC and OTS. We are grateful to Costa Rica and its academic institutions for their support from the founding of ATBC and OTS through today. The idea of a joint 50th anni-

versary celebration was hatched several years ago by W. John Kress (ATBC Executive Director, 1999-current) and Elizabeth Losos (OTS President and CEO and ATBC Secretary 2002-2009). The planning for the event was initiated by Julie Denslow (OTS 50th Anniversary Chair, and also ATBC Executive Director, 1989-1998) in late 2011. We acknowledge their exceptional contributions that have helped both organizations thrive as important players in tropical biology research, education and conservation. More importantly, we acknowledge the many scientists who founded the two organizations, and those who have kept them going. We are pleased that some of these long-timers are present at this meeting to share their perspectives. We have much to learn from them as we search for the future direction of tropical biology as a research discipline in the coming 50 years.

The beauty and complexity of biologically diverse tropical nature continues to motivate many of us to work in the tropics just as it did 50 years ago. Yet nature’s gifts to the tropics, including its biodiversity, extraordinary evolutionary legacy, and unparalleled environmental services, are threatened more than ever by human activ-ities in this globally interconnected world. What can we do better, or differently, to conserve what we love as tropical biologists? How should we share our scientific understanding to inform the society at large? In what area should we focus more of our efforts? Perhaps, the general public has finally come to appreciate the value of tropical nature more than ever. If so, how can scientists contribute to the formulation of wise policies that balance nature conservation with the demands for food, water and energy from the 7.1 billion people that now reside on this planet? We are at a pivotal moment as atmospheric CO2 concentration skyrockets beyond the un-precedented benchmark of 400 ppm, and tropical forests and coral reefs are plunged into rapid climate changes that present so many unknowns. How can advances in basic and applied scientific research in the tropics, along with new technological discoveries, help humanity navigate through this uncertain time and leave these evolu-tionary and ecological treasures for the next generation? How can we bridge natural sciences, social sciences, economic theories and pedagogical innovations to develop effective intervention strategies for the conservation of biodiversity in the tropics? There is likely not one right answer that can address what the world confronts today; instead, we should embrace the diversity of views and opinions that are put forth, as much as we cherish the biological diversity around us.

We welcome all tropical biologists and conservation scientists that have gathered at this special meeting to share their scientific findings, communicate with each other, and contribute to the synthesis of perspectives. We hope that you will all enjoy every minute of this meeting that is packed with scientific sessions and special events and we would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has worked with us to make this meeting possible, especially those who have served in the scientific and organization committees.

Kaoru Kitajima, Ph.D.Program chair

Carlos García-Robledo, Ph.D.Program co-chair

Rakan (Zak) Zahawi, Ph.D.Program co-chair

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ASSOCIATION FOR TROPICAL BIOLOGY AND CONSERVATION(ATBC)

ATBC was founded as the Association for Tropical Biology (ATB) on July 6, 1962 to promote research and to foster the exchange of ideas among biologists working in tropical environments. After official incorporation as a non-profit organization in 1963, ATB started regular publications and academic symposia to build global networks of tropical biologists and conservationists. Since 1969, ATB has published BIOTROPICA, a high-impact journal of global readership which features peer-reviewed articles and reviews on ecology and evolution of biological and functional diversity in tropical environments, as well as issues critical for conservation of tropical biodiversity. This reflects the work of our membership: a network of scientists with a strong desire to balance conservation of biological diversity with human welfare in the tropics.

From the Executive Director, W. John Kress and the President, Lúcia G. Lohmann Fifty years ago a group of several dozen dedicated tropical researchers came together to form the first professional society dedicated to understanding tropical biodiversity and ecosystems. Today this small number has grown to thousands. As a participant in this fifty-year anniversary meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, you are contributing to one of the most im-portant and largest international gatherings of professional researchers dedicated to furthering our appreciation and knowledge about the tropics. We welcome you to Costa Rica, where many of us received our earliest experiences and training in the field in tropical biology. This meeting promises to be a milestone for both ATBC and OTS in our work to promote research, education, and commu-nication in tropical biology and conservation. We hope that you will take this opportunity to help us further these goals.

introduction

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ORGANIZATION FOR TROPICAL STUDIES (OTS)

OTS was built by a strong foundation of people – researchers, students, conservationists and natural history enthusiasts sharing an intense desire to understand, study, and protect the natural world in the tropics. Over the past 50 years, OTS has trained generations of students through its field courses, at both the graduate and under-graduate levels. It also has helped natural resource managers become better park managers, public policy-makers understand the conservation issues in the tropics, and community leaders address local environmental prob-lems. Today, OTS continues to develop its legacy not only in Costa Rica, but also in other tropical regions as far-reaching as Kruger National Park, South Africa.

From the President and CEO, Dr. Elizabeth Losos and OTS 50th Anniversary Chair, Julie Denslow

On behalf of the Organization for Tropical Studies and our 50+ member institutions, we are delighted to welcome you to a very special joint meeting with the ATBC celebrating our 50th birthday. OTS has grown out of the shared belief between US and Costa Rican universities, research institutes, and museums in the critical importance of understanding how tropical ecosystems work, how trop-ical organisms have evolved, and how they interact with one another. Our founders recognized that central to developing this understanding is the encouragement, education, and support of graduate and undergraduate students. Our courses have not only trained thousands of students, they have be-come models for field-based learning around the world. Our three field stations in Costa Rica foster ground breaking, high-tech research as well as natural history questions from faculty and students alike. They also have contributed to the growth of Costa Rica’s leadership in conservation, ecotourism, and research. When OTS was founded in 1963, a paucity of understanding of tropical environments and the species found there dominated scientific discourse. Today the tropics are central to our understanding of global change, evolution, and the spread of infectious diseases. This week you will hear the latest breaking results of tropical research from around the world. We are delighted that you are bringing your own ideas to this dialog and happy to welcome you to an exciting week. We hope you take advantage of the opportunities scheduled ahead to reflect on where we have been and to talk with some of the folks who have brought us this far.

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universidAd de costA ricA (ucr) http://www.ucr.ac.cr

Since its establishment in 1940, UCR has promoted academic freedom and the search for truth in many disci-plines. The School of Biology (Escuela de Biología), located within the main campus of UCR in San Pedro was established in 1957, and its herbarium, library, field stations, and Lankester Botanical Garden have supported the research needs of many tropical biologists. The members of UCR-Biology have made strong contributions to tropical biology and education, fostering international collaborative research and education activities, and also provided critical support to the ATBC•OTS-2013 meeting.

universidAd nAcionAl de costA ricA (unA) http://www.una.ac.cr

Established in 1973 with a main campus located in Heredia, UNA is a public higher education institution that offers training in various fields of the humanities and sciences, with a special emphasis on promotion of sustain-able development. Many UNA faculty and students in the tracks of Tropical and Marine Biology, Environmental Science, Forestry, and Wildlife Conservation are engaged in a variety of research topics in tropical biology. UNA supports several educational training workshops offered in conjunction with the ATBC•OTS-2013 meeting.

el tecnologico de costA ricA (tec) http://www.tec.ac.cr Created in 1971 as the second public university in Costa Rica, TEC specializes in training of professionals in science and technological fields that contributes to integral and sustainable development. The scientific and technological excellence of the TEC is known nationally and internationally. The School of Forestry Engineering makes strong contributions to sustainable natural resources management. Members of the TEC, including many student volunteers, have contributed significantly to the ATBC•OTS-2013 meeting.

university of floridA (uf) http://www.ufl.edu Since UF opened its doors to students in 1906 in Gainesville, Florida, USA, students and faculty of UF have been actively engaged in education and research in a variety of research fields in the tropics, including biology, agri-culture, forestry, ecology and sustainable development. UF is one of the seven founding members of OTS. The Tropical Conservation and Development Program (TCD) housed in the Center for Latin American Studies, par-ticipated by faculty and students from multiple units within the University, offers an internationally well-known graduate certificate program.

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REGISTRATION The registration fee for each registrant covers: – Attendance to all scientific sessions – Events that do not require pre-registrations and additional fees – Opening reception – Coffee-break refreshments and lunch for four days – Banquet and 50th Anniversary Jubilee Party, on June 27

On-line pre-registration for the entire meeting is required for all presenters in scientific sessions. Workshop attendance is restricted to registrants, and may require additional fees. Guests to registered participants may not attend any scientific oral or poster presentations, but they may sign up for field trips and attend banquet with additional fees.

on-site registrAtion

On-site registration will open at noon on June 23, and will be available from 8 am to 5 pm between June 24 and 26. Registrants who completed registration in advance can pick up their program; name badge; lunch, recep-tion, and final banquet tickets; and a meeting bag at the on-site registration table. Badges will be checked daily at the entrance to the conference center at all scientific sessions. So, please do not leave your badge at the hotel!

Those who have not signed up in advance may register at the following rates, provided space is available. ATBC will not refund any cancellations after May 31.

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OPENING RECEPTION, LUNCH, AND BANQUET You will need tickets for these events that will be provided to you at the registration desk. Reception and banquet tickets provide you with one complementary drink. Additional drinks will be available for purchase at both events. Lunch will be served buffet style in multiple rooms and areas designated within the Herradura Hotel complex adjacent to the Conference Center. Please study the diagram on PAGE 18 and follow staff indications to find less crowded lunch areas. Vegetarian options will be available at all lunch areas.

COFFEE BREAKS AND CASH BARS Refreshments will be provided during morning and afternoon coffee breaks (10:00-10:20 am and 3:50-4:10 pm) in the North and South Lobby. All participants with valid name badges are welcome. Cash bars will offer drinks for purchase during the poster sessions in the South Lobby (5:40-7:40 pm, June 24-26).

CHILD CARE Group care for half- or full-day will be available for children 6 months - 6 years old at a licensed bilingual Creative Kids Montessori School in the neighborhood. A Kids’ Art Camp will be offered to 5-12 year old children in the Hibiscus room within the Herradura Hotel’s main building from 7:45 am to 12:45 pm on June 24, 25, and 26. For guests staying at Wyndham Herradura Hotel, an hourly in-room baby-sitter may be arranged. All these services require reservation (and prepayments if applicable) in advance.

FIRST AID First aid providers will be on duty at the Conference Center. Please contact anyone wearing a “Conference Staff” t-shirt if you need assistance.

LUGGAGE STORAGE AND LOST-AND-FOUNDA specific location will be announced on site.

FIELD TRIP DESKSThe field-trip coordinators will provide information on the official scientific field trips organized by OTS Bio-Cursos. Privately arranged field trip options offered by TOPS (Tour Operators Promoting Sustainability) will be available in the South Lobby from the afternoon of June 23 through the morning of June 27.

TRAVEL FROM/TO THE AIRPORT AND DOWNTOWNMany of the designated hotels offer free airport transport. A taxi from the airport to the Herradura will cost about $15 or 8000 colones. Daily bus transport will be available from the UCR campus in San Pedro (12 noon on June 23, 6:45 am on June 24-27), to the Herradura Conference Center, returning at the end of the day (8 pm on June 23-26, 11 pm on June 27). Cost is $2 per person (or 1200 colones) per day, and advance reservation is required.

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SHOPPING AND EATING PLACES NEAR THE HERRADURA HOTEL AND CONVENTION CENTEROn the other side of Highway 1, across the pedestrian bridge from the front of the hotel, is the Plaza Real Cariari shopping mall with stores and a food court. Maps for restaurants within walking distance will be available at the Registration Desk.

CLINICS, PHARMACY AND COPY CENTER

puBlic HospitAls

Hospital San Rafael de Alajuela Telephone: 2436-1001, 2436-1002, 2436-1003 http://www.hospitalsanrafael.sa.cr/

Hospital de Heredia San Vicente de Paul Telephone: 2261-0091

Hospital México Telephone: 2242-6700

Hospital Nacional de Niños Telephone: 2523-3600 http://www.hnn.sa.cr/Paginas/Default.aspx

Hospital San Juan de Dios Telephone: 2257-6282

privAte clinics

Hospital CIMA San José Telephone: 2208-1000 http://www.hospitalcima.com/ Clínica Bíblica Telephone: 2522-1000 http://www.clinicabiblica.com/esp/index.php Hospital La Católica http://www.hospitallacatolica.com/esp/

pHArMAcies

Plaza Real Cariari shopping mall

Farmacia Real Cariari Telephone: 2293-3805

Farmacia Sucre Telephone: 2293-0642, 2293-0655

Shopping center in front of DoubleTree Cariari Hotel

Farmacia de Ciudad Cariari Telephone 2293-7070

copy centers

Herradura Hotel has a small business center with a multipurpose printer for very few copies.

For larger volumes, these are some options:

Librería Cocorí in front of DoubleTree Cariari Hotel Telephone: 2293-4235

Papel Arte in Plaza Real Cariari shopping mall Telephone: 2293-2951

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MAKING PHONE CALLSParticipants staying at Wyndham Herradura can make free calls to certain destinations and prepaid calls elsewhere. Please check with the hotel reception for additional information. For other participants, there are two public telephones in the Wyndham Herradura reception area and one in the Tropicala Restaurant. They are operated with cards, which can be purchased at the Café Britt Shop, located in the same reception area.

Costa Rica’s country code is (506). Costa Rica does not have Area Codes; thus for making calls within the country you just dial the telephone number you are calling to. To make international calls from Costa Rica you must dial 00+ DESTINATION COUNTRY CODE+DESTINATION AREA CODE+DESTINATION TELEPHONE NUMBER. These instructions are the same either from a fixed telephone line or a cellular phone. If you are calling from outside Costa Rica, in addition to the international access numbers given by the respective telephone operator, you just need to dial (506)+phone number in Costa Rica.

HOTELS NEAR MEETING VENUEWyndham San José Herradura Puerta del Sol Telephone: 506-2209-9800 Telephone: 506-2293-8109

City Express San José Aeropuerto Adventure Inn Telephone: 0800-052-9222 Telephone: 506-2239-2633

Double Tree Cariari Costa Rica Marriott Telephone: 506-2239-0022 Telephone: 506-2298-07821

Country Inn & Suites Hampton Inn and Suite Telephone: 506-2239-2272 Telephone: 506-2436-0000 Terrazas de Golf Boutique Hotel Telephone: 506-2239-4339

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instructions for presenters

FOR ORAL PRESENTATIONS Please place your electronic presentation file onto the laptop computer designated to your presentation room at least two breaks (coffee and lunch breaks) prior to your presentation (in other words, at least 4 hours in advance and during a session break). We strongly encourage you to copy your presentation onto the laptop the day be-fore you present. There will be one or two designated audiovisual technicians who can assist you in each session room from 7:30 am through 6 pm.

For those scheduled to present on June 24, there will be designated computers for depositing files in the slide preview room (Americas A) between 7 am and 5 pm on June 23. The slide preview room will also be available throughout the day from the afternoon of June 23 till 5:40 pm on June 26. All presenters assigned to a session on June 27 must submit their files before 4:10 pm the day before.

Name your file in the following format, with elements connected by + sign: Last_name+session_number+date.extention (e.g., garcia+o15+June25.pdf, Smith+S13+June26.pptx).

We will accept visual material in these formats only: – PDF (preferred and safest) – Microsoft PowerPoint (file must be compatible with Office 97/2000/XP binary version, .ppt; or .pptx version compatible to Office 2010 version for Windows). Format the slide sizes for “On-screen show (4:3)” in landscape. – Apple’s Keynote is not being supported, and you will not be able to use your own laptop.

Anyone who plans to include video clips as part of their presentation must notify the co-Chair, Dr. Carlos Garcia ([email protected]) as to the type of video format at least 1 week in advance. Windows Media Video (WMV) or QuickTime (MOV) are likely to be accepted, with resolution of 1365 x 800 pixels. We will not be responsible for any technical issues experienced by presenters who do not follow these guidelines, and reserve the right to refuse submission of a file.

Contributed oral talks will be 15 minutes total. Please aim to complete your talk in 12 minutes, allowing for 3 minutes of questions and presenter changeover. A time-keeper will indicate how many minutes you have remaining (5, 3, 1 and 0 minutes to finish the presentation). Some symposium talks may have longer durations, so please check the program or ask your symposium organizer.

FOR POSTER PRESENTATIONS Posters should be in the portrait orientation (tall, rather than wide). The maximum poster size is 90 cm wide and 120 cm tall (36 inches wide, 48 inches tall). This size corresponds to a standard paper size of A0 (841 mm x 1189 mm).

The size of each poster board is 100 cm wide and 250 cm tall. The board has a smooth white surface, and all posters will have to be attached using a double-sided tape that we will provide free of charge. No pins and thumb tacks will be allowed. Multiple panels will be placed in a zigzag fashion with a 130 degree angle in-between.

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All posters should be posted up in the Poster Exhibition Area by 10 am on the day of your presentation (June 24, 25 or 26). They will be displayed from the morning coffee break through the end of the official poster session (7:40 pm). Posters must be removed at the end of each official poster session time. Any poster remaining at 7:30 am the next morning will be removed by conference staff. We will not assume any liability for lost or damaged posters.

The poster session room (South Hall) will be open as early as 7:30 am. There will be designated volunteer staff that will help you find the location of your board and provide supplies. You may post your poster only in the designated location.

ONLINE SCHEDULERS, ABSTRACTS AND PRESENTATION FILESAbstracts will be published in electronic format only, and can be accessed from the online scheduler. Authors who wish to exhibit the PDF version of their presentation online may do so by uploading it to the designated site. The presentation files will be linked to the online scheduler.

inStructionS for PreSenterS

ATBC GOES TO AUSTRALIA! MARK YOUR CALENDARS AND JOIN US

AT ATBC 2014, CAIRNS, AUSTRALIA

host: James Cook University

Among the world’s leading institutions focusing on the tropics, Australia’s James Cook University (JCU) is surrounded by ancient

rainforests, savannas and the iconic Great Barrier Reef. JCU is renowned for its expertise in teaching and research in science, and is ranked among

global research leaders in the vital research areas of environment and ecology. Our unique location enables students from around the world to study in a ‘living laboratory’ unparalleled by any university in the world.

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1. Tropical Science Center2. �e School for Field Studies3. �e Field Museum of Chicago4. Encyclopedia of Life5. �e Union of Concerned Scientists6. Universidad Estatal Amazonica7. Tirimbina Biological Reserve8. Organization for Tropical Studies9. University of Chicago Press

10. Tropical Conservation and Development Program, University of Florida11. Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation12. Wiley13. Reserva Ecológica Bijagual14. Monteverde Conservation League15. Center for International Forestry Research

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IMPORTANT LOCATIONS NEAR HOTEL


SAN ANTONIODE BELEN

BARREALDE HEREDIA

LA VALENCIA

LA URUCA

ROHRMOSER

ESCAZUSANTA ANA

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UNA

SAN JOSE

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SYMBOLOGY

some hotels close toconference venue

amusement park

Interamerican highway(General Cañas)

Other district andcounty streets

hospitals

shopping mall

Juan SantamariaInternational Airport

Wyndham Herradura Hotel (conference venue)

DISTANCES

– From Juan Santamaria International Airport to Wyndham Herradura Hotel: 6 kms

– From Juan Santamaria International Airport to San Jose-Downtown: 17.5 kms

– From Wyndham Herradura Hotel to San Jose Downtown: 12 kms

– From Wyndham Herradura Hotel to San Pedro and UCR: 14.5 kms

– From Wyndham Herradura Hotel to UNA (Heredia): 10 kms

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eXHiBits And displAys

BOOTHS IN NORTH HALL

BOOTH 1

tropical sciEncE cEntEr apdo. 8-3870-1000 San José, costa rica 10102t:506.2253.3267 | f: 506.2253.4963e: [email protected], [email protected]

The Tropical Science Center has 50 years of experience in the field of natural resources management. Consulting and research interests have focused on tropical ecology, watershed planning and management, land use classifica-tion and planning, natural resource policy, environmental economics, environmental impact evaluation, planning and management of protected areas, environmental auditing, and integrated participatory rural development. One of the main contributions of the TSC in the field of Tropical Ecology is the World Life Zone System of Ecological Classification created by Dr. Leslie R. Holdridge, one of the Center’s founding members. This system has received international recognition and is widely used. Since 1972, the TSC has owned and managed the Monteverde Cloud Forest Biological Preserve, one of the first private biological reserves in Latin America. The Preserve contains over 4,000 hectares of mid-elevation forest in the Tilarán Mountain Range, and is considered a model for protected area management at the global level. The Preserve’s main priorities are conservation, research, environmental education, and ecotourism.

BOOTH 2

tHE scHool For FiElD stuDiEs 100 cummings center, Suite 534g, Beverly, ma 01915 uSa t: 978.741.3567 | f:978.922.3835e: [email protected] www.fieldstudies.org

The School for Field Studies (SFS) is a premiere environmental study abroad program for undergraduates operating programs in seven countries. Our students examine environmental issues, gaining a conceptual and practical foundation in conservation and development through coursework and field research. We serve local stakeholders through cooperation and research.

BOOTH 3

tHE FiElD musEum oF cHicaGo Science and education, 1400 S. lake Shore drive, chicago, il 60605 uSat: 312-665-7430, 7446, 7448, or 7427e: [email protected]://fieldmuseum.org/idtools/http://fieldmuseum.org/explore/department/ecco/inventories

One of the world’s largest natural history museums, Field Museum has a new division: Conservation, Culture, and Action Center. This center applies the science and collections of the museum directly to conservation action, especially with Rapid Biological and Cultural Inventories of tropical landscapes and development of Rapid Identi-fication Tools.

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BOOTH 4

EncYclopEDia oF liFE Smithsonian institution national museum of natural history, P.o. Box 37012, mrc 106, Washington, dc 20013-7012, uSat: 1-202-633-8730 | f: 1-202-633-8742e: [email protected]

The Encyclopedia of Life gathers, generates, and shares knowledge about biodiversity in an open, freely acces-sible and trusted digital resource. Over 250 natural history museums, research consortia, NGO’s, and citizen science initiatives disseminate their content through the EOL portal. All materials are available for reuse and redistribution. Visit our booth to learn more about the project and find out how you can participate.

BOOTH 5

tHE union oF concErnED sciEntists two Brattle Sq, cambridge, ma 02138-3780t: 1-617-547-5552 | f: 1-617-864-9405http://www.ucsusa.org

The Union of Concerned Scientists puts rigorous, independent science to work to solve our planet’s most press-ing problems. Joining with citizens across the country, we combine technical analysis and effective advocacy to create innovative, practical solutions for a healthy, safe, and sustainable future.

BOOTH 6

tHE univErsiDaD Estatal amaZonica Paso lateral, km 2 ½ via a napo, Puyo, Pastaza, ecuadort: (+593) 3-2889-118 | f: (+593) 3-2888-118e: [email protected] www.uea.edu.ec

The Universidad Estatal Amazónica (Amazon State University) is a public university, founded in 2002, with un-dergraduate programs in environmental engineering, tourism, agronomy and agroindustrial engineering. Besides the main campus in Puyo, the capital of Pastaza province, the UEA owns and administers a research center, 44 km north of Puyo, comprising 2800 hectares including 2000 hectares of primary forest at 550-1100 m elevation, in a region of exceptionally high biodiversity at the interface between the Amazon basin and the Eastern Cordillera of the Andes. The research center provides lodging and meals for student groups of up to 20 people for field courses at the site. We invite tropical biologists in all disciplines, as well as researchers in agroforestry, agronomy and oth-er applied sciences, to visit us in Amazonian Ecuador and collaborate with us to conduct research and education at the research center, known by its Spanish acronym CIPCA.

eXhiBitS and diSPlayS

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BOOTH 7

tirimBina BioloGical rEsErvE 1 kilometer north of Banco nacional de costa rica, la Virgen, Sarapiquí, Puerto Viejo Sarapiqui, 74-3069, costa ricat: 506-2761-0055e: [email protected] www.tirimbina.org

We are an educational, scientific and ecotourism destination, situated between the forests and rivers of the northern region of Costa Rica. Tirimbina offers education programs for primary schools, high schools and university students, as well as facilities for study groups, volunteers and researchers, highlighting the biodiver-sity and conservation of the rainforest. Tirimbina’s abundant forest also provides great ecotourism activities. Our goal is to protect an exceptional resource of biodiversity through environmental education and scientific research promoting conservation. It’s a place where education, research and beauty combine to offer an unfor-gettable experience with nature.

BOOTH 8

orGaniZation For tropical stuDiEs 410 Swift avenue, Box 90630, durham, nc 27708 uSat: 1-919-684-5774 | f: 1-919-684-5661e: [email protected] Celebrating 50 years of research and education in the tropics! Today with 50+ member institutions, the Orga-nization for Tropical Studies operates three research stations in Costa Rica and counts more than 10,000 U.S., Latin America, and South African alumni from our graduate, undergraduate, and professional courses. Visit our booth, celebrate our accomplishments, and be a part of our new station-greening initiative.

BOOTH 9

univErsitY oF cHicaGo prEss 1427 e. 60th Street, chicago, il 60637 uSat: 1-800-621-2736 | f: 1-773-702-9756e: [email protected] www.press.uchicago.edu

Established in 1891, the University of Chicago Press is the largest American university press. The Press publishes approximately 250 books a year and has published over 11,000 books since its founding. The Press also publishes leading journals and annuals in fields including the humanities and physical, life, and medical sciences.


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BOOTH 10

tropical consErvation anD DEvElopmEnt proGram, univErsitY oF FloriDa 343 grinter hall, gainesville, fl 32653 uSat:1-352-273-4734e: [email protected] www.tcd.ufl.edu

The Tropical Conservation and Development (TCD) Program is located in the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida. TCD’s mission is to promote bridging of theory and practice to advance biodiversity conservation, sustainable resource use, and human well-being in the tropics. TCD offers an interdisciplinary graduate certificate and concentration to students enrolled in Master’s or Ph.D. programs in over 25 departments. It pro-vides inter-disciplinary coursework, field experiences and practical skills for students through crossing disciplines, linking academics to practitioners, and working in partnership with a wide range of stakeholders.

BOOTH 11

tHE association For tropical BioloGY anD consErvation 2815 nW 38th dr., gainesville, fl 32605, uSat: 1-352-246-2886 | f:1-352-392-3704e: [email protected]://www.tropicalbio.org Founded in 1963, ‘The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation’ is the world’s largest scientific orga-nization devoted to promote research, education, and conservation of tropical ecosystems worldwide. We invite you to join us in our tasks; visit the ATBC booth to become a member today! You can also become a member by visiting Wiley’s booth. As a member you will not only receive our official journal Biotropica and be entitled to member benefits, most importantly, you will greatly assist ATBC in reaching its goals!

BOOTH 12

WilEY 350 main Street, malden, ma 02148 uSaP: 1-781-388-8200e: [email protected] www.wiley.com

Wiley is the leading society publisher and the proud publisher of ATBC’s journal, Biotropica. We publish on behalf of more societies and membership associations than anybody else, and offer libraries and individuals 1,250 online journals, thousands of books and e-books, reviews, reference works, databases, and more. For more information, visit www.wiley.com, or our online resource: onlinelibrary.wiley.com. Stop by our booth to learn about what’s new at Wiley, receive 20% off your order, and request free digital journal samples.


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BOOTH 13

rEsErva EcoloGica BiJaGual apdo. 35-3069 Puerto Viejo de Sarapiquí, 41001 costa ricat: 506-8330-8472e: [email protected]

Dedicated to conservation, education and research, the Reserva Ecológica Bijagual offers an accessible field station to hold classes and conduct research on tropical rain forest ecology. Habitats include managed and old-growth forest, reforestation, regenerating pastures, streams and rivers. The reserve is located on the Caribbean slope of Costa Rica, a three-hour drive north of San José.

BOOTH 14montEvErDE consErvation lEaGuE anD cHilDrEn’s EtErnal rainForEst rEsErvEP.o. Box 124-5655, monteverde, Puntarenas, costa ricat: 506-2645-5851, 506-2645-5200e: [email protected]

Monteverde Conservation League (MCL) is a non-profit organization whose mission is “to conserve, preserve, and rehabilitate tropical ecosystems and their biodiversity”. The main project of MCL, the Children’s Eternal Rainforest (CER), is the largest private reserve in Costa Rica with an Area of 22,600 hectares or 55,000 acres, straddling the continental divide from about 600 m in elevation on the Caribbean slope, crossing the highest peaks at elevation of nearly 1,800 m, and down to about 900 m on the Pacific slope. Six of Costa Rica’s twelve life zones occur within CER, and visitors can enjoy a wide variety of nature-based activities. The field stations and the visitor Center have served local and international researchers, students, volunteers and tourists during the 27 years of existence of CER.

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cEntEr For intErnational ForEstrY rEsEarcH (ciFor)Situgede, Sindang Barang, Bogor Barat 16115, West Java, indonesiat: +62-251-8622622 | f: +62-251-8622100e: [email protected] www.cifor.org The Center for International Forestry Research is a nonprofit, global facility dedicated to advancing human wellbeing, environmental conservation and equity. We conduct research that enables more informed and equita-ble decision making about the use and management of forests in less-developed countries. CIFOR is located in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia.


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TABLES IN SOUTH HALL

THE ATBC STUDENT AND EARLY CAREER SCIENTIST CHAPTER(ATBC-SECSCI)

This chapter was recently formed to provide early career scientists with resources and guidance that will help them continue and excel in the field of tropical biology. The goals of this chapter are to: (1) encourage the involvement of student and early career scientists in ATBC and increase their participation at annual meetings; (2) organize and promote activities that meet the interests/needs of early career scientists working in the fields of tropical biology and conservation; and (3) encourage and facilitate participation, support, communication, and interaction within the student/early career group and between this group and all members of ATBC.

TOUR OPERATORS PROMOTING SUSTAINABILITY (TOPS)

Here, you can ask questions or sign up for customized field trips with tour agencies who are members of TOPS, who promote sustainable tourism with the Rainforest Alliance. The participating TOPS agencies have agreed to donate 5% of their profit to the meeting.

OTS BIOCURSOS

These official programs are organized by OTS BioCursos, which operates field trips to promote familiarity and understanding of tropical biodiversity and natural ecosystems to the general public in Costa Rica.

Please come by for last minute booking for the official field trips, questions about the trips you have signed up, or information on OTS BioCurso program.


trip coDE trip titlE DatE options

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ft3

ft4

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la Selva Biological Station (one day)

costa rica Paradise of Volcanoes and Waterfalls (one day)

Wild Pacific and guacalillo’s mangroves (one day)

caribbean turtles, Pacuare Biological reserve (two days)

coffee and Quetzals Path (two days)

Bird territory, Palo Verde Biological Station (two days)

craft route and toro amarillo Waterfall (one day)

rafting adventure (two days)

las cruces Biological Station (three days)

osa Peninsula, record in global Biodiversity, campanario Biological reserve and San Pedrillo /corcovado (three days)

June 21, 22, 23, 25, 28, 29 or 30

June 20, 21, 25 or 28

June 20, 23 or 26

June 21-22 or 28-29

June 21-22 or 29-30

June 21-22 or 22-23

June 21, 26 or 30

June 22-23 or 28-29

June 21-23 only

June 28-30 only

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scHedule overvieW

monday, june 24, 2013

HoUR RooM ACTiViTY

8am–9:50am

10:20am–12:20pm

1:50pm–3:50pm

4:10pm–5:40pm

5:40pm–7:40pm

7pm–9pm

3:50pm–4:10pm

12:20pm–1:50pm

10am–10:20am

La Paz - Main

La Paz ALa Paz B (East)La Paz B (West)La Paz C (East)La Paz C (West)

Américas BC


Américas BC


Américas BC

South Lobby

Orquídeas Hall

Designated lunch areas inside Hotel

Girasol Hall

North/South Lobby

North/South Lobby

a4–Scientific Plenary Lectures

s1–Plant-Animal Interactionso1–Sociological Ecosystemso2–Bird Behavior & Ecologyo3–Biodiversity Inventoriess2–Functional Ecology under Changeso4–Ecosystem Carbon & Nutrient Cycles

s3–Tropi-Dry: Secondary Dry Forests in Americaso5–Agroforestrys4–Reproductive Biology of Enterolobium cyclocarpums5–Nutrient Cycless6–Long-term Ecological Researchs7–DNA Barcode Application

s8–Critical Synthesiso6–Vine Ecologyo7–Bat Ecologyo8–Amphibians & Reptileso9–Plant Functional Ecologys9–Agroecological Landscape

p1–Poster Session, Day 1

OTS Alumni Mixer

Lunch

l1–Publishing in Biotrópica

Break

Break

SeSSion codeS

p: Poster Sessionss: Symposia l: Lunch Time Seminars

a: Plenary Sessions for All Delegateso: Oral Sessions

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tuesday, june 25, 2013

HoUR RooM ACTiViTY

8am–10am

10:20am–12:20pm

1:50pm–3:50pm

4:10pm–5:40pm

5:40pm–7:40pm


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Américas BC


Américas BC


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s10–Geogenomics of Neotropical Biodiversityo10–Tropical sylvicultureo11–Arthropod Ecology & Behavioro12–Conservation Biology: Human Impacts on Animalss11–Monteverde Ecology and Conservations12–Secondary Succession Pathways

s13–Evolution & Genetics of Tropical Treeso13–Ecological Restoration & Monitoringo14–Plant-Animal Interactionso15–Ecosystem Nutrient Cycless14–Field-based Learningo16–Secondary Succession

s15–Modeling Human-Natural Systemso17–Mammals & Bird Conservationo18–Species Turnover & Beta Diversityo19–Mangrove Ecology & Conservations16–Rainforest Canopy Ecosystem Cycless17–Oligotrophic Ecosystems (Part 1)

s18–Agroecological Landscapeso20–Theoretical Ecologyo21–Animal Behavior & Ecologyo22–Plant-Animal Interactions & Seed Dispersals19–Bats and Hummingbirds as Pollinatorss17–Oligotrophic Ecosystems (Part 2)

p2–Poster Session, Day 2

Schedule oVerVieW

3:50pm–4:10pm

12:20pm–1:50pm

10am–10:20am


Girasol Hall

North/South Lobby

North/South Lobby

Lunch

l2–High Impact Publication

Break

Break

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wednesday, june 26, 2013

HoUR RooM ACTiViTY

8am–10am

10:20am–12:20pm

1:50pm–3:50pm

4:10pm–5:40pm

5:40pm–7:40pm

7:30pm–8:30pm


Américas BC


Américas BC


Américas BC


Américas BC

South Lobby

La Paz A

s20–Vertebrate Seed Dispersals21–Freshwater Wetlands22–Pollinator-Tree Interactionso23–Plant Functional Traitso24–Conservation Ecology: Corridors & Invasivess23a–Ecology & Evolution of Tropical Insects

s24–Trophic Downgradingo25–Fungi & Microbess25–Mistletoe Ecology & Evolutiono26–Population Ecologys26–Forest People and Market Integrations23b–Ecology & Evolution of Butterflies

s27–Climate Changes: Models & Forest Datas28–Tropical Fungi as a Research Frontiero27–Conservation Strategies (Part 1)s29–Animal Movements and Telemetryo28–Speciation Mechanismso29–Spatial Ecology of Troical Forests (Part 1)

o30–Biogeography & Paleobiologys30–Neotropical Arachnidso31–Conservation Strategies (Part 2)o32–History & Educationo33–Community-based Conservationo34–Spatial Ecology of Tropical Forests (Part 2)

p3–Poster Session, Day 3 (final)

Tropical Biodiversity Slideshow

Schedule oVerVieW

12:20pm–1:50pm

10am–10:20am


Girasol HallHeliconias Hall

North/South Lobby

Lunch

l3–Higher Education Panel Discussionl4–The ATBC Student and Early CareerScientist Chapter

Break

3:50pm–4:10pm North/South Lobby Break

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thursday, june 27, 2013

HoUR RooM ACTiViTY

8am–10am

10:20am–12:20pm

1:50pm–3:50pm

4:10pm–5:30pm

7:30pm-9pm

9pm-Midnight


Américas BC


Américas BC

La Paz Main

La Paz Main

La Paz Main

La Paz Main

s31–Climate Warming & Tropical Forestso35–Habitat Fragmentationo36–Natural History & Ecologyo37–Animal Community Ecology and Evolutions32–Anthropogenic Landscapeso38–Mountains & Elevational Gradients

s33–Biological Corridorso39–Forest Structure and Dynamicso40–Seedling Ecologyo41–Ant Ecologys34–Stream Ecologys35–Montane Cloud Forests

a5–Historical Reflections and Path Forward

a6–Closing Plenary, ATBC Presidential Talk and Award Recognition

a7–Annual ATBC Banquet

a8–50th Anniversary Jubilee Party

Schedule oVerVieW

12:20pm–1:50pm Designated lunch areas inside Hotel Lunch

10am–10:20am

3:50pm–4:10pm

North/South Lobby

North/South Lobby

Break

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These events are open to all registrants and do not require a specific reservation.

WelcoMe MiXer

Please join us for our welcome reception and a complementary drink for every registered partici-pant, before heading to the opening ceremony and plenary.

opening plenAry session

Please join us for the official opening of the meeting and the plenary lecture.

6:00 pm – Welcome and greeting / LÚCIA G. LOHMANN / ATBC PRESiDENT

6:05 pm – Welcome and greeting / ELIZABETH LOSOS / oTS PRESiDENT & CEo

6:10 pm – greeting / A COSTA RICAN OFFICIAL REPRESENTATIVE

6:15 pm – official opening and introduction of the opening Plenary lecturer / W. JOHN KRESS / ATBC ExECUTiVE DiRECToR

6:25 pm – opening Plenary lecture / RODRIGO GáMEZ / PRESiDENT, NATioNAL BioDiVERSiTY iNSTiTUTE, CoSTA RiCA The future of Costa Rica’s biodiversity: Knowledge, education and ethics

DR. RODRIGO GáMEZ joined the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Costa Rica (UCR) in 1954, where he pioneered the field of plant virology in Costa Rica. He earned his M. S. from the University of Florida, and received a Ph.D. in virology from the University of Illinois in 1967, after which he continued his active academic career at UCR. In 1985, he was named presiden-tial adviser for natural resources and biodiversity. This has led to the founding of the National Biodiversity Institute (INBio, http://www.inbio.ac.cr), a private non-profit association, where Dr. Gámez has served in the capacity of Director General and President for over 20 years. The tire-less efforts of Dr. Gámez in the protection of biodiversity and natural resource conservation in Costa Rica, as well as his academic achievements in the field of plant virology, have led to numer-ous international awards in recognition of his achievements, including the Dr. Bernard Houssay Inter-American Science Prize (1983), Banesto Recognition of Honor (1992), Green Globe Award (1997), Award for International Cooperation from the US Forest Service (2011), Magón National Culture Award (2012), Pax Natura Award (2012), and Midori Award (2012). He is a Professor Emeritus at UCR since 2010.

For the opening plenary lecture, Dr. Gámez will share his views on the future of biodiversity of Costa Rica based on the experience he has gained since his early years at the UCR (70-80´s) during which he was associated with OTS, and later with the National Parks Foundation and the Ministry of the Environment (1980-90´s), and INBio (1990´s-present).

AtBc conservAtion coMMittee open foruM Please join us for the open forum of ATBC Conservation Committee in order to identify key conser-vation issues that are relevant in Costa Rica and Central America, as well as tropical biomes at large.

a1Sun. June 23

5-6 pmH-Orquídeas Hall

a2Sun. June 23

6-7 pmC-La Paz-Main

LoCATioN CoDES

speciAl events And Meetings

a3Sun. June 23

7-8 pmC-La Paz-Main

DR. RoDRiGo GÁMEZ

SESSioN CoDES

l: Lunch time Seminarsa: Plenary Sessions for All Delegates H: Rooms and Halls at the Herradura HotelW: Workshops

c: Rooms and Lobbies at the Conference Center

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scientific plenAry session

8 am – Welcome and Brief introduction / KAORU KITAJIMA / PRoGRAM CHAiR

8:05 am – DEBORAH A. CLARK / UNiVERSiTY oF MiSSoURi, ST. LoUiS Paradigms Lost, v. 2.0: Tropical forest ecology 16 years later 9:05 am – DANIEL H. JANZEN & WINNIE HALLWACHS / UNiVERSiTY oF PENNSYLVANiA Tropical biodiversity conservation through biodiversity development: Costa Rica’s ACG, a real world example

DR. DEBORAH A. CLARK received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1978. She was the co-Director of the OTS La Selva Biological Station from 1980 to 1994, during which La Selva went through a series of major renovations and supported new cutting edge research project, also catering to an increasing number and variety of OTS courses. Dr. Clark’s own research addresses population ecology, life history diversity and ecophysiology of tropical rain forest canopy trees, as well as carbon and nutrient cycling. She continues to actively publish the results of her long-term research from Costa Rica in the global context. Dr. Clark was the ATBC President in 1997. She is currently a research associate professor at the University of Missouri, St. Louis.

PARADiGMS LoST, V. 2.0: TRoPiCAL FoREST ECoLoGY 16 YEARS LATER

Our understanding of ecological processes in the tropics is still nascent and evolving. In 1997, during the first joint ATBC/OTS meeting in San José, my banquet talk focused on how new field data had overturned concepts that had been accepted wisdom for tropical researchers only a de-cade earlier. I reflected then on how these conceptual frame shifts were making my own area of re-search, tropical forest ecology, progressively more interesting. Now, with 16 more years of findings from field research, I explore the new shifts that have occurred in our understanding of how tropi-cal forests work. Lack of replication remains a fundamental constraint. With such data limitations, one pathbreaking study can show X, the next Y. Such lessons underline the need for caution when generalizing across the biome. We now know much more about geographic variation in biodiver-sity, but new species continue to turn up in even the best-studied field sites, and many sites remain unexplored. The internet is now bringing the “world brain” to bear on this fundamental challenge for understanding tropical biodiversity. A pervasive assumption in earlier tropical field studies was that all years are the same in this “equable-climate” biome; this notion has been turned on its head. We can now see that interannual climatic variation, extreme events, and directional climatic change affect both current-time and future ecosystem processes for all tropical forests. The “my forest is more virgin than yours” competition of the early years of tropical forest ecology has gone away; we now know it is fundamental to ask how past and current disturbances may be impacting forest processes at all study sites. The tacit assumption “seen one part of the forest, seen it all” has given way to a growing understanding of how the within-landscape mosaicism of tropical forests shapes forest ecology. That tropical forests are “only skin deep” is another long-held misconcep-tion; those few researchers who have studied tropical soils to depth have shown us that a large part of the action in tropical-forest carbon may be going on in the deep soil layers. Finally, an early tacit assumption that old-growth tropical forests are in carbon equilibrium has been confronted by a series of new hypotheses, but the ideas have outstripped the data in this key area of tropical-forest ecology. The continuing evolution of all these areas is exciting and will no doubt be promoted by findings presented at this meeting.

a4Mon. June 24

8-10amH-La Paz Main

DR. DEBoRAH CLARK

SPecial eVentS and meetingS

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DR. DANIEL H. JANZEN received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1965. As a co-instructor of the 1965 Fundamentals of Ecology course, Dr. Janzen developped the inquiry-based teaching method that has been been adopted by subsequent OTS field courses ever since. Dr. Janzen’s research addresses the ecology and biodiversity of ecosystems in the tropics, in particular, evolutionary and ecological interactions between herbivorous insects and plants. Dr. Janzen’s research continues to redefine the frontier of tropical biology. Dr. Janzen also actively contributes to biodiversity conservation through protection and land acquisition programs that he developed in the Area de Conservación Guanacaste in Costa Rica. He is currently the Thomas G. and Louise E. DeMaura Term Chair and Professor of Biology in the Department of Biology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is rarely seen because “My research is done where the organisms are, i.e., Costa Rica.”

TRoPiCAL BioDiVERSiTY CoNSERVATioN THRoUGH BioDiVERSiTY DEVELoPMENT: CoSTA RiCA’S ACG, A REAL WoRLD ExAMPLE

(5 minutes max reminiscing) The only significant arrays of wild tropical terrestrial biodiversity that will survive this century are those that are geographically big and diverse, endowed, and integrated with their neighboring, national and international societies. The Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG) in northwestern Costa Rica began as the 22,000 ha Parque Nacional Santa Rosa in 1971 (terrestrial and marine). Today it is 168,000 ha of continuous wildland restoration and conservation from 6 km out in the Pacific, through coastal dry forest, up over 1400-2000 m cloud forest, and down to 100 m Atlantic rain forest, the only such transect conserved in the New World. ACG contains 2.6% of the world’s biodiversity (60% of Costa Rica’s, which in turn is 4% of the world, about equal to that of the continental US and Canada together). It is managed as a semi-decentralized national park, intended to be highly friendly to non-damaging users – as part of its biodiversity development – and is a synergism between the Costa Rican government (http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr) and an NGO (Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund, http://www.gdfcf.org). This has cost about $87 million, and the intellectual and physical labor of more than 500 employees and volunteers in the last 42 years. Almost all of them are Costa Rican and of minimal formal education, but have great ability to learn on the job, and some highly perceptive senior Costa Rican decision-makers. ACG is specialized national real estate development.

This opens the door to many topics. Owing to our inclinations and backgrounds, I will drill into “know thy park”. This is the one piece of a national park structure that is generally missing in conservation administration, and done largely, if at all, by the academic community, mostly as tourist biologists. Its development by the park itself is crucial to permanent conservation through biodiversity development. My particular scientific insanity is that I want to inventory all the caterpillars in ACG before I die. Inventory means know who they are (by morphology and DNA barcodes), where they are, what they eat, who parasitizes them, and get that all onto the web/pub-lic domain. This inventory is conducted by 39 full-time career Costa Rican parataxonomists and biodiversity curators (http://janzen.bio.upenn.edu). Winnie and I, and the taxasphere, are coaches, cheerleaders and clearing house. The global taxasphere and the public are our collaborators. At present, the inventory database has information on about 6,500 species of caterpillars and 9,500 species of Lepidoptera out of an estimated 15,000, plus at least 2,500 species of parasitoids out of a huge number.


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luncH tiMe seMinAr: puBlisHing in BiotropicA

Learn tips for successfully publishing in ATBC’s society journal, Biotropica. This is your chance to meet and ask questions to the editors, including Jaboury Ghazoul, Editor in Chief, as well as Associate Editors, Emilio Bruna and Marielos Peña-Claros. Admission: limited to the first 50 attendees. Door closes at 12:50 pm.

ots AluMni MiXer

This mixer is a reunion of sorts, bringing together OTS alumni and station researchers. RSVP to Arianne Leslie ([email protected]) required.

luncH tiMe seMinAr: HigH iMpAct puBlicAtion

Please join Sacha Vignieri, Associate Editor of Science magazine, for an informational session and discussion titled “Opening the Black Box: an editor’s perspective on high-impact journal publishing”. From the outside, publication in high-impact journals can seem like a mysterious process. A general understanding of the practices at Science can help unravel this mystery and contribute to an under-standing of what makes a great paper a high-impact-journal paper. Admission: limited to the first 50 attendees. Door closes at 12:50 pm.

luncH tiMe seMinAr: HigHer educAtion pAnel discussion Globalization, the Environment, and the Role of Institutions of Higher Learning

Please join the round-table discussion among administrative leaders from several key OTS member institutions. Admission: limited to the first 50 attendees. Door closes at 12:50 pm.

ELIZABETH LOSOS / oTS PRESiDENT / Moderator While increasing globalization has resulted in economic growth and development across the globe, it has also strained the earth’s resources. Widespread global trade has resulted in reduced genet-ic diversity in agriculture (loss of crop varieties and livestock breeds), spread of exotic species, pollution of air, water and soil, and accelerated climatic change. The market cannot be relied on to control the environmental costs of globalization. This panel will address what role institutions of higher learning have to play in devising strategies to address such issues. Specifically they will discuss how universities can collaborate across borders to effect change, providing examples of academic leadership and international collaboration that can serve as models.

PANELiSTS PETER LANGE / ProVoSt / duke uniVerSity

As a professor, Dr. Lange focuses on the topics of comparative politics and political econ-omy. His early work focused on Italian politics and the Italian Communist Party. He subsequently studied European trade union movements. In more recent years his re-search focus has turned to the economic performance of the advanced industrial democ-racies and the effects of globalization on these relationships. More recently he has turned his attention to the dynamics of higher education in the United States and globally.

l1Mon. June 2412:20-1:50pmH-Girasol Hall

l2Tue. June 25

12:20-1:50pmH-Girasol Hall

l3Wed. June 2612:20-1:30pmH-Girasol Hall

Mon. June 247-9pm

H-Orquídeas Hall


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MICHAEL BERNSTEIN / ProVoSt / tulane uniVerSity

Dr. Bernstein’s research and teaching interests focus on the economic and political history of the United States, macroeconomic theory, industrial organization economics, and the history of economic theory. His publications explore the connections between politi-cal and economic processes in modern industrial societies, as well as the interaction of economic knowledge and professional expertise with those processes as a whole. His teaching interests include: Economic History (United States and Western Europe); 19th and 20th Century United States History; Macroeconomic Theory; History of Economic Thought; Industrial Organization Economics and Public Policy.

JULIO CALVO / rector / el tecnológico de coSta rica

Dr. Calvo is an internationally respected forest engineer who specializes in forest hy-drology, forestry, natural resources, forest ecology and remote sensing applications. He has published numerous articles in international journals. He received his doctoral degree from North Carolina State University in natural resources and earth science. He has received in excess of $3 million dollars in grant funding from such organizations as: USA-AID, McDonald’s Corporation International, FONAFIFO of Costa Rica, Canadian for Foun-dation Innovation, Tinker, OET/CR-USA-CR, the USA National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI).

SANDRA HARDING / Vice chancellor and PreSident / JameS cook uniVerSity

Educated at the Australian National University, The University of Queensland, and North Carolina State University, Dr. Harding is an economic sociologist with a keen scholarly interest in markets and how they work, and organization survey methodology. She also has a professional interest in education policy and management. She has authored and co-authored a wide range of publications, conference papers and press articles in her ar-eas of interest. Currently, Dr. Harding is spearheading a multi-institutional, international initiative to produce “The State of the Tropics Report.”

luncH-tiMe open foruM: tHe AtBc student And eArly cAreer scientist cHApter (AtBc-secsci)

Please come join the inaugural meeting of ATBC-SECSCI. Eat lunch with other young scientists and learn more about this new and exciting addition to ATBC. Meet with each other, and share ideas.

tropicAl Biodiversity slide sHoW

Christian Ziegler, a free-lance photographer featured in National Geographic, and coauthor of “A Magic Web: the Tropical Forest of Barro Colorado Island” will share some of his amazing photos that capture beautiful moments of the tropical natural history in action.

Wed. June 267:30-8:30pm

C-La Paz A

l4Wed. June 2612:20-1:50pm

H-Heliconia Hall


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HistoricAl reflections And pAtH forWArd in tropicAl Biology And conservAtion: A roundtABle discussion

JULIE DENSLOW / TULANE UNiVERSiTY / Moderator

A half century ago, the biology of tropical species was a largely unexplored scientific frontier. The extraordinary diversity of tropical ecosystems and the daunting logistical challenges influenced where research was undertaken, what questions were asked, and how the field developed. During this special roundtable discussion, six pioneers in the fields of diversity and behavior will share their insights (and perhaps a few anecdotes) on the challenges and influences of that time, how the field has evolved, and how their past experiences shed light on current challenges for tropical biology and conservation. Gordon Orians, Peter Raven, José Sarukhán, Jay Savage, John Terborgh and Mary JaneWest-Ebrhard will participate in a free-flowing roundtable discussion. Also featured will be a video message from E. O. Wilson.

GORDON ORIANS received his Ph.D. in 1954 from the University of California Berkeley, and is currently Professor Emeritus of Biology at the University of Washington, where he served as the Director of the UW’s Institute for Environmental Studies from 1976 to 1986. His research has focused on behavioral ecology of birds relevant for habitat selection, mate selection and mating systems. Dr. Orians is a member of both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he is actively engaged in the science-policy interface, serving on a variety of advisory boards for the U. S. Environ-mental Protection Agency, the National Research Council, the World Wildlife Fund-US and The Nature Conservancy.

PETER H. RAVEN headed the Missouri Botanical Garden for four decades, an institution he nurtured into a world-class center for botanical research and education, and horti-cultural display until his retirement as president in 2010 and as president emeritus and consultant through 2014. As one of the world’s leading botanists and advocate of nature conservation, Dr. Raven authored many books and received numerous prizes and awards, including the prestigious International Prize for Biology from the government of Japan and the U.S. National Medal of Science, the country’s highest award for scientific accom-plishment. Dr. Raven is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

JOSé SARUKHáN received a Ph.D. in Ecology from University of Wales, and serves as the National Coordinator for Mexico’s National Commission for Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO). Dr. Sarukhán has published more than 110 research papers in tropical ecology, plant population ecology, systems ecology of both temperate and trop-ical ecosystems, and authored several books. As a long-time faculty member of the Uni-versidad National Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Dr. Sarukhan served as the director of multiple units and centers, as well as a Vice Chancellor for Science and Rector. Since 2006, he continues to be active as Professor Emeritus. Dr. Sarukhán has served as presi-dent of the Botanical Society of Mexico, the Mexican Academy of Sciences, and president of the Association for Tropical Biology. He has received many awards, and is a member of U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Royal Society, and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

a5Thu. June 271:50-3:50pm

C-La Paz Main

DR. PETER H. RAVEN

DR. GoRDoN oRiANS


DR. JoSE SARUKHAN

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JAY SAVAGE is Professor Emeritus of Biology at the University of Miami in Coral Gables and currently Adjunct Research Professor at the Department of Biology in San Diego State University. His research focused on the evolutionary and historic determinants of the systematics and distribution of amphibians and reptiles, which culminated in his recent publication, The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica: a Herpetofauna Between Two Continents, Between Two Seas (University of Chicago Press). Jay was instrumental in founding the Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS), serving as OTS president from 1974-1980. In 1998 Dr. Savage was inducted as an honorary member, into the Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Costa Rica. He has received innumerous awards, including the Henry S. Fitch Award for Excellence in Herpetology and the Outstanding Service Award of the American Institute of Biological Sciences.

JOHN TERBORGH is Research Professor in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences in Duke University and the Director of the Duke University Center for Tropical Conservation. His specialty is tropical ecology with an emphasis on plant-an-imal interactions and trophic cascades. He has conducted research in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Madagascar and New Guinea, but his main focus has been the Peruvian Amazon. From 1973 to 2011 he operated a research station in the Manu National Park, Perú. In 1999 he founded ParksWatch, an organization dedicated to monitoring and publicizing the status of parks in developing countries. Dr. Terborgh has published more than 200 research papers, 8 books and numerous popular articles. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of both the Ameri-can Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.

MARY JANE WEST-EBERHARD is a staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and a faculty member of the Universidad de Costa Rica. Dr. West-Eberhard’s research on phenotypic and developmental plasticity has made major contributions to theories of animal evolution and speciation. Dr. West-Eberhard is a member of both the United States National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sci-ences, and also a foreign member of the Italian Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. She has been a past president of the Society for the Study of Evolution and has received numerous awards, including R.R. Hawkins Award for the Outstanding Professional and the Sewall Wright Award. She has been selected as one of the 21 “Leaders in Animal Behavior.”

EDWARD O. WILSON is University Research Professor Emeritus and Honorary Curator in Entomology at Harvard University. The main research interests of Dr. Wilson are biogeography and ecology of organisms, especially ants. In collaboration with the late Dr. Robert H. MacArthur, Dr. Wilson pioneered the theory of island biogeography which continues to provide the foundation to many studies in consevation biology. As author of numerous scholarly publication and popular books, Dr. Wilson has promoted the impor-tance of conserving biodiversity, a term that he coined with his 1988 book “BioDiversity”, which has entered the popular lexicon. Dr. Wilson is a Fellow of the American Associa-tion for the Advancement of Science, and a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, and is the recipient of numer-ous awards including two Pulitzer Prizes and the National Medal of Science.

DR. EDWARD o. WiLSoN


DR. JoHN TERBoRGH

DR. MARY JANE WEST-EBERHARD

DR. JAY SAVAGE

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closing plenAry And AWArd recognition

ATBC President, Lúcia Lohmann, will deliver a plenary lecture titled “Mapping the past and future of tropical biology: ATBC as a catalyst for innovation” as the annual presidential talk. This will be followed by presentation of the Alwyn H. Gentry Best Student Paper and Poster Awards and the Luis F. Bacardi Advances in Tropical Conservation Award; recognition of all meeting committee members, staff, and volunteers; and the official closing of scientific sessions.

4:10 pm – introduction / RICHARD CORLETT, ATBC PAST PRESiDENT

4:20 pm – annual atBc Presidential lecture / LÚCIA LOHMANN / ATBC PRESiDENT Mapping the past and future of tropical biology: ATB C as a catalyst for innovation 5 pm – Best Presentation awards / SUSAN LAURANCE / ATBC AWARD CHAiR AND PRESiDENT ELECT

ALWYN GENTRY AWARD FoR BEST STUDENT PRESENTATioNS

Alwyn Gentry’s legacy to tropical biology was not limited to the phenomenal contributions he made to the study of diversity and conservation of tropical plants. He was a caring and supportive mentor to students from all over the Americas. In remembrance and recognition of the contributions of a singular scientist, colleague, mentor, and friend, the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation presents the Alwyn Gentry Awards for the Best Student Oral and Best Student Poster Presentations each year at its Annual Meeting.

LUiS F. BACARDi ADVANCES iN TRoPiCAL CoNSERVATioN AWARDEach year the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation recognizes out-standing research in tropical conservation through its Luis F. Bacardi Advances in Tropical Conservation Award. The award is given for the most outstanding oral presentation at the ATBC annual meeting focusing on tropical conservation, by a young scientist who is an ATBC member and who has completed his/her PhD no more than five years before the date of the presentation. This award is made possible with generous support from the Lubee Bat Conservancy.

5:15 pm – acknowledgements of meeting Staff / KAORU KITAJIMA / ATBC 2013 PRoGRAM CHAiR

5:20 pm – declarations / W. JOHN KRESS / ATBC ExECUTiVE DiRECToR

AnnuAl AtBc BAnQuet

All registrants and their pre-registered guests are welcome to return to the La Paz Main room for the annual ATBC banquet for food and merriment with your friends. There will also be a ceremony to hand over the duties from this year’s program chairs to the chairs of next year’s ATBC meeting in Cairns, Australia.

AtBc•OTS 50th AnniversAry JuBilee pArty

Time to relax, dance and say “see you next time” to all your friends and colleagues. Live music, a cash bar and refreshments will keep you going late into the night!

a7Thu. June 27

7:30-9 pmC-La Paz-Main

a8Thu. June 27

9 pm-MidnightC-La Paz Main


DR. SUSAN LAURANCE

a6Thu. June 274:10-5:30 pm

C-La Paz Main

DR. LUCiA G. LoHMANN

DR. RiCHARD CoRLETT

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BUSINESS MEETINGS AND SPECIAL GROUP MEETINGSBy invitation only.

AtBc council Meeting

Details sent to the ATBC officers, councilors and additional invited participants.

ots delegAtes Meeting

Details sent to invited delegates.

AtBc conservAtion coMMittee Meeting

Details sent to the ATBC officers, councilors and additional invited participants.

BiotropicA editors Meeting

Invitation to this dinner and discussion event will be sent to all relevant editors of Biotropica.

youMAngres WorKsHop discussion

All who signed up in advance to the Workshop 6, YOUMANGRES, are invited to join this over-the-lunch discussion.

SKILLS AND CONCEPTS WORKSHOPSThese workshops are organized and taught by instructors who have donated their time and effort.

Some workshops will take place on the Universidad Nacional campus in Heredia (UNA). ATBC warmly acknowledges their contributions. All workshops require pre-registration.

r for proto-ninJAs

C. E. TiMoTHY PAiNE, iRENE MENDoZA / Organizers

MAXent HABitAt Modeling

NADiNE TRAHAN / Organizer

BAt Acoustics And cApture MetHod

KEViNA VULiNEC, JoSEPH SZEWCZAK, PRiSCiLLA ALPíZAR / OrganizerField work into midnight on June 22.

scientific illustrAtion

CAMiLA PiZANo / Organizer

Mon. June 2412:20-1:50 pm

H-Anturios Hall

Mon. June 247-9 pm

H-Girasol Hall

Tue. June 2512:20-1:50 pm

H-Anturios Hall

W2Sun. June 23

9 am-4 pmH-Fucsia Hall

W3Sat. June 22

(Tirimbina Station)& Sun. June 23

W1Sun. June 23

9 am-4:30 pmH-Azaleas Hall

W4Sun. June 2310 am-3 pm

UNA


Sun. June 239 am-4:50 pmH-Azalea Hall

Sun. June 239 am-4:40 pm

San Pedro Office

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youMAngres–young MAngrove reseArcHers

ULRiCH SAiNT-PAUL, GUSTAVo CASTELLANoS / OrganizersMultiple short meetings (lunch time meeting on June 25, Anturio Hall), a poster session (June 25), and an optional field trip (June 23).

integrAting cutting-edge tecHnologies in ecologicAl reseArcH

PAULo C. oLiVAS / Organizer

stAtisticAl estiMAtion of species ricHness And Biotic siMilArity using estiMAtes

RoB CoLWELL, SUSAN LETCHER / Organizers

softWAre deMo: using lifemapper Web services and Quantumgis for species distribution and Biodiversity Modeling

JiM BEACH / Organizer

Monitoring Biodiversity in A cHAnging World: estimating occupancy dynamics in diverse ecosystems through single and Multi-species Models

ViViAN RUiZ-GUTiERREZ / Organizer

functionAl diversity: theory, Analyses and interpretation

CHRiSToPHER BARALoTo, CLAiRE FoRTUNEL and RoBERTo S. CoRDERo / Organizers

W7Sun. June 23

1-4 pmC-Américas BC

W7bSun. June 23

4-5 pmC-Américas BC

W9Fri. June 28

9 am-1 pmUNA

W8Sat. June 22 &

Sun. June 239 am-4 pm

UNA


W5Sun. June 23 to

Thu. June 27

W6Sun. June 23

9 am-NoonC-Américas BC

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scientific progrAM scHedule

ABOUT THE SESSIONS CODING

All scientific sessions are listed by day, and grouped by the session type in the order of contributed sessions, as follows:

Oral sessions (O) Symposium sessions (S) Poster sessions (P)

Each presentation is identified by the combination of session type, session number and the order within each session. For example, o5-6 is the sixth presentation in oral session 5.

All posters will be displayed in the South Lobby from 10:20 am till 7:40 pm on the day of the session.

Poster board assignments follow the order in which they appear in the program: For example, p1a-1, p1a-2, ...... p1h-5, for Day 1.

The names of all the presenting authors appear in bold.

LoCATioN CoDE

c: Rooms and Lobbies at the Conference Center

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MONDAYJUNE 24, 2013

o110:20am

C-La Paz B (East)

o210:20am

C-La Paz B (West)

ORAL SESSIONS

Sociological Systems10:20am: O1-1 The Ramsar Convention, Costa Rica’s Palo Verde National Park and the wise use of working wetlands tHomas t. anKErsEn, University of Florida10:35am: O1-2 The terrestrial component of the OSA-golfito initiative (INOGO): An integrative cross-disciplinary effort for sustainability eBen n. BroAdBent1, rodolfo dirzo1, lucia moralEs BarquEro2 and AngelicA M. AlMeydA zAMBrAno1

(1) Stanford University, (2) Universität Göttingen, Germany10:50am: O1-3 Urban migration drives resource extraction from an Amazon reserve: Incorporating the diversity of small-holder livelihood strategies into tropical conservation frameworks Gillian GrEGorY, Geography, McGill University, Canada11:05am: O1-4 Bird and flora diversity in urban parks of central San José, Costa Rica carolina cErDas-FErnánDEZ, lilliAnA piedrA-cAstro, oscAr rAMírez-Alán and tAniA BerMúdez-roJAs, Escuela Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, Costa Rica11:20am: O1-5 Optimization of hydropower performance while reducing environmental impacts lEonarDo saEnZ, Moore Center, Conservation International11:35am: O1-6 Social-economic drivers of yard sustainable practices in a tropical city Elvia mElénDEZ-acKErman1, rAúl sAntiAgo2, cristinA p. vilA3,luis sAntiAgo2, diAnA gArciA-Montiel4, Julio verdeJo2, eduArdo HernAndez-cAlo5 and HArold MAnriQue HernAndez4

(1) University of Puerto Rico, (2) Graduate School of Planning, University of Puerto Rico, (3) Environmental Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, (4) Environ- mental Sciences, University of Puerto Rico-Rio, (5) Biology, University of Puerto Rico-Cayey11:50am: O1-7 Cultural diversity for ecologists: Why are there so many languages in the tropics and what can we do to conserve them? voJtEcH novotnY1, pAvel drozd2, MArtin AdAMec3, pHilip sHeArMAn4, nigel BAro5, (1) Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic, (2) Biology, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, (3) Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, (4) Remote Sensing Centre, University of Papua New Guinea, Papua New Guinea, (5) Biology, University of Papua New Guinea, Papua New Guinea12:05pm: O1-8 Climate change driven shifts in the extent and location of areas suitable for export banana production Brian macHovina1,2, KennetH J. feeley2

(1) Biological Sciences, Florida International Univeristy, (2) Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden

Bird Population Biology and Behavioral Ecology

10:20am: O2-1 Ecological and anatomical conservatism in the evolution of learned contact calls in neotropical parrots marcElo araYa-salas1, AngelA MedinA gArcíA2

(1) Biology, NMSU, Costa Rica, (2) Biology, NMSU, Venezuela

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10:35am: O2-2 Spatial and temporal turnover dynamics of male territories on leks BEttE loisEllE1,2, JoHn g. BlAKe2

(1) Center for Latin American Studies, (2) Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida10:50am: O2-3 Implications of home range overlap for the flocking propensity of the wedge-billed woodcreeper (Aves: Passeriformes: Glyphorynchus spirurus) in Amazonian Ecuador aBiGail DarraH and KiMBerly sMitH, Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas11:05am: O2-4 Population densities of curassows, guans and chachalacas (Aves: Cracidae): Effects of body size, habitat, season and hunting Gustavo H. Kattan, Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Universidad Javeriana Cali, Colombia11:20am: O2-5 Intratropical migration of a North American breeding songbird: Catharus fuscescens cHristopHEr m. HEcKscHEr, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Delaware State University11:35am: O2-6 Overwintering dynamics of neotropical migratory songbirds viviana ruiZ-GutiErrEZ1,2, JAMes f. sArAcco3, WilliAM l. KendAll2 (1) Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, (2) Colorado Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit, (3) The Institute for Bird Populations11:50am: O2-7 Habitat selection at fine spatial scales: how consistent is microclimate between the breeding and wintering grounds of neotropical migrant passerines? micHaEl pattEn1, BrendA d. sMitH pAtten2, (1) University of Oklahoma, (2) Oklahoma Biological Survey, University of Oklahoma12:05pm: O2-8 Larvae-eating by hyacinth macaws (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus) in the Brazilian Pantanal: When seed-eating rewards more than expected iara roBErta aZEvEDo-niEro and Wesley silvA, Departamento de Biologia Animal, Universidade Estadual de Campinas - UNICAMP, Brazil

Biodiversity Inventory

10:20am: O3-1 Orchid conservation in Xishuangbanna, China: Species diversity, assessing endangerment status and conservation prospects JianGYun Gao, Jin cHen, QiAng liu, dong li yu, XiAo HuA Jin, Hong pei yAng, JiAn Wu li, yun Hong tAng and ricHArd corlett, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China10:35am: O3-2 A cool study about the hyperspectral reflectance of ‘leaf mimics’ J. paBlo arroYo1, MArgAret KAlAcsKA1, ronAld vArgAs2, cArlos l. de lA rosA2, george leBlAnc3

(1) Geography, McGill University, Canada, (2) La Selva Biological Station, Organization for Tropical Studies, Costa Rica, (3) Flight Research Laboratory, National Research Council Canada, Canada10:50am: O3-3 How useful are statistical analyses that control for imperfect detection intropical conservation science? cristina BanKs-lEitE1, renAtA pArdini2, tHoMAs pÜttKer3, dAnilo Boscolo4, cAMilA r. cAssAno5, cAMilA s. BArros3, Jos BArloW6 (1) Imperial College London, England, (2) Zoology, University of São Paulo, Brazil, (3) Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil, (4) Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo,

o310:20am

C-La Paz C (East)

ORAL SESSIONS

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MONDAYJUNE 24, 2013

Brazil, (5) Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Brazil, (6) Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Brazil11:05am: O3-4 Species richness and endemism of cave vertebrate fauna on siargao island, Philippines olGa nunEZa, MSU Iligan Institute of Technology, Philippines11:20am: O3-5 Phytosociological study of the tropical dry deciduous forest in northeast Brazil george A.l. cABrAl1, everArdo v.s.B. sAMpAio2, JarcilEnE s. almEiDa-cortEZ3

(1) PPGBV, UFPE, Brazil, (2) Energia Nuclear, UFPE, Brazil, (3) Botany, UFPE, Brazil11:35am: O3-6 Using species as reference points for environmental licensing of hydroelectric dams in the Brazilian Amazon lorEna riBEiro DE almEiDa carnEiro, WilliAM ernest MAgnusson, AlBertinA piMentel liMA, pedro ivo siMoes, igor luis KAefer, rAfAel de frAgA and rodrigo vAsconcelos KoBlitz, Coordenação de Pesquisas em Ecologia, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Brazil11:50am: O3-7 Rapid inventories in Loreto, Peru: Museum science underpins creation of 11 new conservation areas in the Amazon basin and Andean foothills corinE vriEsEnDorp1, diAnA AlvirA1, AlvAro del cAMpo1, roBin foster1, JonAtHAn MArKel1, deBrA MosKovits1, MArio pArionA1, nigel pitMAn2, ernesto ruelAs inzunzA1, douglAs stotz1, tyAnA WAcHter1, AlAKA WAli1 (1) The Field Museum, (2) Duke University12:05pm: O3-8 The encyclopedia of life: A vision for a gobal collaborative initiative KatJa s. scHulZ, Jennifer A. HAMMocK, cyntHiA s. pArr and ericK MAttA, Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Ecosystem Ecology: Carbon & Biomass Dynamics

10:20am: O4-1 Lianas reduce carbon sequestration and storage in a tropical forest stEFan a. scHnitZEr1, geertJe vAn der HeiJden2, WAlter p. cArson2, JosepH MAscAro3

(1) Biology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, (2) Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, (3) Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science10:35am: O4-2 Tropical forest degradation and carbon stocks: Insights from a large scale field assessment EriKa BErEnGuEr1, Jos BArloW1,2, Joice ferreirA3, toBy AlAn gArdner2,4, luiz ArAgão5, plinio B. cAMArgo6, cArlos eduArdo cerri7, MAriAnA durigAn7, rAiMundo c. oliveirA3, iMA celiA g. vieirA2

(1) Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, United Kingdom, (2) Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Brazil, (3) Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, Brazil, (4)Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, (5) College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, United Kingdom, (6) CENA, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, (7) Departamento de Ciência do Solo, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil10:50am: O4-3 Standing biomass in relation to altitude and disturbance at Mt. Kilimanjaro anDrEas Ensslin1, geMMA rutten1, AndreAs HeMp2, MArKus fiscHer1, (1) Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Switzerland, (2) Plant Systematics, Bayreuth University, Germany11:05am: O4-4 Controls on aboveground net primary production of tropical rainforests Florian HoFHansl and WolfgAng WAneK, Terrestrial Ecosystem Research, University of Vienna, Austria

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11:20am: O4-5 Consequences of climate change in neotropical streams: Differential effects of CO2 on pH declines in well-buffered vs. poorly-buffered streams carissa n. GanonG1, gAston e. sMAll2, JoHn H. duff3, cAtHerine M. pringle1, (1) Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, (2) University of St Thomas, (3) U S Geological Survey11:35am: O4-6 Variation in soil organic carbon abundance and isotopic composition mediated by landslide activity in the Sierra de Las Minas, Guatemala carla rEstrEpo1, edWin cAstellAnos2, gABrielA AlfAro2, cArlos estuArdo cifuentes3, gioMArA lA QuAy1

(1) Biology, University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras, (2) Centro de Estudios Ambientales y Diversidad, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala, (3) Recursos Naturales, Universidad San Carlos de Guatemala, Guatemala11:50am: O4-7 Controls on aboveground biomass in the central Amazon forest Juliana scHiEtti1, WilliAM ernest MAgnusson1, scott c. stArK2, tHAise eMilio1, flAviA r.c. costA3, Kelly sArMento3, deMetrius lirA MArtins1, José luis purri veigA pinto4, AngelicA c.g. nunes3, JocHen scHöngArt5, JAvier toMAsellA6, scott r. sAlesKA7

(1) Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Brazil, (2) Forestry, Michigan State University, (3) National Institute for Amazonian Research - INPA, Brazil, (4) GEOMA Network, Brazil, (5) Biogeochemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Brazil, (6) National Center for Natural Disaster Monitoring and Alert - CEMADEN, Brazil, (7) EEB, University of Arizona12:05am: O4-8 The montane cloud forest at the central region of Veracruz, México victor l. BarraDas, Alfredo gonzAlez and MonicA BAllinAs, Ecología Funcional, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México

Agroforestry

1:50pm: O5-1 New technologies to old problems: Online role playing games and policy making in the coffee agroforestry systems of the western Ghats (India) maEllE DElaY1,2, Anne drAy1, pAtricK o. WAeBer1, cHeryl d. nAtH3, nAnAyA M. KonerirA1,3, cHepudirA g. KusHAlAppA4, yenugulA rAgHurAMulu5, pHilippe vAAst6,7, cHristopHe le pAge8, terry sunderlAnd9, clAude A. gArciA1,10,11

(1) ForDev, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, (2) ENV Programme, CIFOR, Switzerland, (3) Ecology Department, French Institute of Pondicherry, India, (4) College of Forestry, Ponampet, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India, (5) Central Coffee Board, India, (6) ICRAF, Kenya, (7) UMR Eco&Sols, CIRAD, France, (8 )UPR GREEN, CIRAD, France, (9) Forests and Livelihoods, CIFOR, Indonesia, (10) ENV Programme, CIFOR, Indonesia, (11) UR BSEF, CIRAD, France2:05pm: O5-2 The potential to manage coffee farms for belowground benefits: Effects of organic and conventional management on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in two regions of Costa Rica elizA d.l. HArtMAnn, reBeccA J. AsHeiM, peter g. JoHnson, riley d. Mcglynn, logAn c. scHMAltz, sydney J. redMond and laura alDricH- WolFE, Biology, Concordia College

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2:20pm: O5-3 Our landscape, my trees: Landscape trends and biodiversity dynamics of coffee agroforestry systems in the western Ghats (India) clauDE a. Garcia1,2,3, cHeryl d. nAtH4, nAnAyA M. KonerirA2,4, yenugulA rAgHurAMulu5, cHepudirA g. KusHAlAppA6, pHilippe vAAst7,8 (1) UR BSEF, CIRAD, France, (2) ForDev, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, (3) ENV Programme, CIFOR, Indonesia, (4) Ecology Department, French Institute of Pondicherry, India, (5) Central Coffee Board, India, (6) College of Forestry, Ponampet, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India, (7) UMR Eco&Sols, CIRAD, France, (8) ICRAF, Kenya2:35pm: O5-4 Nutrient availability and microbial dynamics in the rhizosphere of coffee: Shade tree and fertilization effects JaKE W. munroE1, gABrielA soto2, eliAs de Melo virginio filHo3, MArney isAAc1

(1) University of Toronto, Canada, (2) University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica, (3) CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica2:50pm: O5-5 Birds and bats increase crop yield in tropical agroforestry landscapes BEa maas1, yAnn clougH2, teJA tscHArntKe2 (1) Agroecology, Goettingen University, Germany, (2) Agroecology, Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany3:05pm: O5-6 Behavioral ecology and seed dispersal by howler monkeys (Alouatta pigra) in shaded cocoa plantations DiEGo a. ZáratE and ellen Andresen, Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosiste- mas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México3:20pm: O5-7 Dung beetle communities and their ecological functions in agroecosystems carolina santos-HErEDia and ellen Andresen, Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México3:35pm: O5-8 Is agroforestry a lose-lose strategy? Biodiversity and soil degradation in a shifting cultivation system of the peruvian Amazon sYlvia l.r. WooD, Geography, McGill University, Canada

Ecology of Vines and Lianas

4:10pm: O6-1 Lianas shape the ecology of tropical canopy ants stEvE YanoviaK, Biology, University of Louisville4:25pm: O6-2 To be a tree or liana: The influence of seasonal precipitation on the distribution of Machaerium species roBYn J. BurnHam1, MárciA cléiA vilelA dos sAntos2

(1) Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan (2) Ecologia e Conservação da Biodiversidade, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Brazil4:40pm: O6-3 Vine assemblages in tropical post-agricultural landscapes vary along complex environmental gradients Diana l DElGaDo and cArlA restrepo, Biology, University of Puerto Rico- Rio Piedras4:55pm: O6-4 Comparing the functional traits of lianas and trees in a lowland tropical forest: Getting to the “root” of the issue courtnEY GracE collins and ninA WurzBurger, Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia5:10pm: O6-5 Growth and physiological response of tropical lianas and trees to elevated CO2 and soil nutrient availability

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DaviD c marvin1,2, elise Morrison2,3, AndreW QueBBeMAn2, Ben l. turner2, KlAus Winter2

(1) Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, (2) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, (3) Department of Soil and Water Science, University of Florida5:25pm: O6-6 Sap flow rates of trees and lianas and their responses to multiple environmental variables in an Asian tropical forest ZE-Xin Fan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, China

Bat Ecology and Conservation

4:10pm: O7-1 Bat evolutionary diversity in biodiversity hotspots FranciElE parrEira pEiXoto, Ecologia e Evolução, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil / dAniel Brito, Programa de Pós-graduação em Ecologia e Evolução, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil4:25pm: O7-2 Potential impacts of climate change on distributions of nectar and fruit-feeding bats on a forested altitudinal gradient of Costa Rica José luis EcHEvErría1, BernAl rodríguez2, BryAn finegAn3, sergio José vilcHez4 (1) Production and Conservation in Forests Programme, Tropical Agricultural Centre for Research and Higher Education (CATIE), Costa Rica, (2) Biology, UCR, Costa Rica, (3) Producción y Conservación en Bosques, Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza, Costa Rica, (4) Biostatistics Unit, CATIE, Costa Rica4:40pm: O7-3 Acoustic analyses of bat activity in fragmented central Amazonian forest KEvina vulinEc1,2, pAulo estefAno BoBroWiec3,4, Adrià lópez- BAucells2,5,6, ileAnA gArciA MAyes1, dAvid JoHn MelloW1

(1) Agriculture and Natural Resources, Delaware State University, (2) Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia - INPA, Brazil, (3) Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia - INPA, Brazil, (4) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Brazil, (5) Centro de Biologia Ambiental - Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, (6) Àrea d’Investi- gació en Quiròpters, Museu de Ciències Naturals de Granollers, Spain4:55pm: O7-4 Bats without bad teeth – low percentage of dental caries in a neotropical frugivorous bat stEFan BränDEl, Institute of Experimental Ecology, University Ulm, Germany5:10pm: O7-5 Bat flies (Diptera: Streblidae) on neotropical cave-dwelling bats tHomas HillEr1, MArco tscHApKA1,2, (1) Institute of Experimental Ecology, University of Ulm, Germany, (2) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama

Ecology and Behavior: Amphibians and Reptiles

4:10pm: O8-1 Environmental refuge from disease-driven amphibian extinctions roBErt puscHEnDorF1, conrAd J. HosKin2, ross A. Alford2

(1) School of Biomedical & Biological Sciences, Plymouth University, United Kingdom, (2) School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Australia

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4:25pm: O8-2 Amphibian pathogens in Southeast Asian frog trade DaviD BicKForD1, MArtin gilBert2, leAnne clArK2, Arlyne JoHnson2, priscillA H. Joyner3, lucy ogg KeAts2, Kongsy KHAMMAvong2, long nguyen vAn4, AlisA neWton2, tiffAny pei WAn seoW5, scott roBerton2, souBAnH silitHAMMAvong2, sinpAKHone singHAlAtH6, AngelA yAng2, trAcie A. seiMon2

(1) National University of Singapore, Singapore, (2) Wildlife Conservation Society, (3) Wildlife Conservation Society, Afghanistan, (4) Wildlife Conservation Society, Vietnam, (5) National University of Singapore, Singapore, (6) Wildlife Conservation Society, Laos4:40pm: O8-3 How to hedge your bets? Cognitive abilities and tadpole performance in the reproductive strategy of Epipedobates boulengeri (Anura: Dendrobatidae) sanDra marcEla cElY santos1,2, Adolfo AMézQuitA1 (1) Biological Sciences, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia, (2) Environmental Studies Department, University of California-Santa Cruz4:55pm: O8-4 The effects of Oophaga pumilio tadpoles on bromeliad mosquito and protozoa communities virGinia r. noBlE1, Jennifer l. stynosKi2, corA l. sKAien1, diAne s. srivAstAvA3

(1) Zoology, University of British Columbia, Canada, (2) Education, Organization for Tropical Studies, Costa Rica, (3) Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Canada5:10pm: O8-5 Behavioral flexibility and problem-solving in Anolis lizards manuEl lEal and BriAn J. poWell, Biology, Duke University5:25pm: O8-6 Intraspecific trait variation, aggressive behavior, and interspecific interactions among leaf-litter frogs sanDra p. GalEano and Kyle e. HArMs, Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University

Functional Ecology of Forest Plants

4:10pm: O9-1 Temperature regulates photoblastic seed germination in four Ficus (Moraceae) tree species from contrasting habitats in a seasonal tropical rain forest min cao1, Hui cHen1,2, Jerry M. BAsKin3, cArol c. BAsKin3,4, (1) Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, China, (2) University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, (3) Department of Biology, University of Kentucky, (4) Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Kentucky4:25pm: O9-2 Integral projection models for 18 species of tropical trees at los tuxtlas, México sEBastian palmas sr.1, Wendell cropper1, sAlvAdor A. gezAn1, MArtin ricKer2, KAren KAiner1,3

(1) School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, (2) Botá- nica–Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, (3) Tropical Conservation and Development Program, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida4:40pm: O9-3 Ontogenetic and successional variation in leaf functional traits of tropical wet forest trees FranK G. cErvo1, vAnessA BouKili2, roBin l. cHAzdon2, (1) University of Connecticut, (2) Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut

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4:55pm: O9-4 The effects of drought and shade on the performance, allocation and morphology of 24 Ghanaian tree species lucY amissaH1,2, godefridus M.J. MoHren1, BoAteng KyereH3, lourens poorter1

(1) Forest Ecology and Management Group, Wageningen University, Netherlands, (2) Biodiversity and Land Use, CSIR-Forestry Research Institute of Ghana, Ghana, (3) College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana5:10pm: O9-5 Physiological tradeoffs in carbon assimilation, growth and drought tolerance among 20 tropical shade-tolerant plant species GErman varGas1,2, tAniA Brenes ArguedAs2

(1) Laboratorio de Ecología Vegetal Funcional, Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, (2) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panamá5:25pm: O9-6 Niche differentiation of tree seedlings in tropical wet forest FaitH inman-naraHari1, reBeccA ostertAg2, gregory p. Asner3, susAn cordell4, stepHen p. HuBBell5, lAWren sAcK1

(1) Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, (2) Department of Biology, University Hawaii at Hilo, (3) Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, (4) USDA Forest Service, (5) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama

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Global Change, Species Extinctions and the Coextinction of Plant-Animal Interactions

moderator: W. JoHn KrEss, Smithsonian InstitutionorganizerS: carlos Garcia-roBlEDo and W. JoHn KrEss, Smithsonian Institution 10:20am: S1-01 Amphibian declines and global change stEvEn WHitFiElD, University of South Dakota10:35am: S1-02 Global change and the evolution of plant-herbivore interactions DouGlas J. FutuYma, Ecology & Evolution, Stony Brook University10:50am: S1-03 Host plant extinctions and insect herbivore co-extinctions in a tropical elevational gradient: Diet and thermal specialization of insect herbivores at high elevations increase co-extinction rates carlos Garcia-roBlEDo1,2, W. JoHn Kress1, cHArles l. stAines2, terry l. erWin2, erin K. KupreWicz1,3

(1) Botany, Smithsonian Institution, (2) Entomology, Smithsonian Institution, (3) Organization for Tropical Studies11:05am: S1-04 Stochastic models of species extinctions and coextinctions in a changing climate roBErt K. colWEll, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut; Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado11:20am: S1-05 The evolution and dissolution of vertebrate-plant mutualisms tHEoDorE FlEminG, Biology, University of Miami11:35am: S1-06 Can plant and animal movements keep up with climate change? ricHarD corlEtt1, dAvid A. Westcott2 (1) Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, (2) Ecosystem Sciences, CSIRO, Australia11:50am: S1-07 Defaunation, alteration of trophic cascades and extinction of ecological processes: Consequences for ecosystems and humans roDolFo DirZo1, HillAry s. young2, douglAs J. MccAuley3, (1) Biology, Stanford University, (2) Center for the Environment, Harvard University, (3) Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley

Endure Or Perish! Functional Ecology In Changing Tropical Landscapes

moderator: JuliEta BEnitEZ malviDo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoorganizerS: JuliEta BEnitEZ malviDo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México / irEri suaZo-ortuño, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo

10:20am: introductory remarks 10:35am: S2-1 Plant-microbe symbioses: The partnership for day-by-day survival in a dry forest ecosystem maYra E. Gavito1, ilyAs siddiQue2, pAtriciA BAlvAnerA1, frAncisco MorA-ArdilA3, silviA MArgAritA cArrillo-sAucedo3, clAudiA gonzAlez-delgAdo1,3 (1) Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, (2) Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil, (3) Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México

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10:50am: S2-2 Functional response of trees to tropical dry forest disturbance in anthropogenic landscapes nAtAliA cintli vAldespino vázQuez1, mariana Y álvarEZ-añorvE2, MAuricio QuesAdA1, luis d. AvilA-cABAdillA3 (1) Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, (2) Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, (3) Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores, Unidad Morelia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México11:05am: S2-3 Seed dispersal syndromes of liana communities in tropical secondary forest susan G. lEtcHEr, Environmental Studies, Purchase College / roBin l. cHAzdon, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut11:20am: S2-4 Nutritional plasticity in Lepidopteran larvae along secondary succession in a tropical dry forest in Jalisco, México eK del vAl1, Karina BoEGE 2

(1) Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, (2) Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México11:35am: S2-5 The role of phenotypic plasticity in human-altered landscapes: The case of amphibians irEri suaZo-ortuño, JAvier AlvArAdo-díAz and Jorge dAvid rAngel- orozco, Instituto de Investigaciones sobre los Recursos Naturales, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, México11:50am: S2-6 Primate-plant networks in fragmented tropical forests: The case of howler monkeys ana p. martínEZ-Falcón, Centro Iberoamericano de la Biodiversidad, Universidad de Alicante, Spain12:05pm: S2-7 Birds in human altered landscapes: Integrating physiology and ecology to model the future JorGE E. scHonDuBE, Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México

Tropical Secondary Dry Forests of the Americas: Tropi-Dry 10-Years of Collaborative Research

moderator: FrEDErico nEvEs, Universidad Federal de Minas Geraisorganizer: arturo sancHEZ-aZoFEiFa, University of Alberta

1:50pm: S3-1 Niche processes drive community assembly along tropical dry forest succession mariana Y. alvarEZ-añorvE1, luis d. AvilA-cABAdillA2, MAuricio QuesAdA3, JeAnnine cAvender-BAres1, Arturo sAncHez-AzofeifA4 (1) Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, (2) Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores, Unidad Morelia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, México, (3) Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, (4) Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department, University of Alberta, Canada2:05pm: S3-2 Factors determining vertebrate responses in tropical dry forest along secondary succession: The case of bats luis D. avila-caBaDilla1, KAtHryn stoner2, JAfet M. nAssAr3, MArio M. do espirito sAnto4, MAriAnA y. AlvArez-Añorve5, cArlA i. ArAn guren3, MicKAel Henry6, José A. gonzález-cArcAcíA3, luiz A. dolA BelA fAlcAo4, gerArdo Arturo sAncHez-AzofeifA7

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(1) Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores, Unidad Morelia, Universidad Nacional Auóonoma de México, México, (2) Department of Biological and Health Sciences, Texas A & M University, (3) Centro de Ecología, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Venezuela, (4) Departamento de Biologia Geral, Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros, Brazil, (5) Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, (6) Abeilles & Environnement, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, France, (7) Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Canada2:20pm: S3-3 Spatiotemporal dynamics of dry forest degradation at local scales: Modeling what-if scenarios aDrian GHilarDi1,2, JeAn-frAnçois MAs1, roB BAilis2

(1) Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, México, (2) School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University2:35pm: S3-4 Growth rates, structural chances and floristic composition as function of successional stage across tropical dry forests in the Americas Julio c. calvo-alvaraDo1, doriAn cArvAJAl-vAnegAs1, sofíA cAlvo- rodríguez1, MArio MArcos do espirito sAnto2

(1) Forest Engineering, Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, Costa Rica, (2) Departamento de Biologia Geral, Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros, Brazil2:50pm: S3-5 Intra and interannual variations in herbivory and plant defenses in tropical dry forests along a sucessional gradient across the Americas mario marcos Do Espirito santo1, HerBert souzA e. silvA1, JHonAtHAn de oliveirA silvA2, g. Wilson fernAndes3, lArissA fernAndes MAcHAdo1

(1) Departamento de Biologia Geral, Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros, Brazil, (2) Universidade de Brasília, Brazil, (3) Departamento de Biologia Geral, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil3:05pm: S3-6 Linking species richness, functional diversity and carbon storage in secondary tropical dry forests sanDra m. Duran1, g. Arturo sAncHez-AzofeifA1, yule roBertA ferreirA nunes2, MAriA dAs dores MAgAlHães veloso2, MArio MArcos espírito- sAnto2, Julio c. cAlvo-AlvArAdo3, ricArdo l.l. BerBArA4

(1) Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Canada, (2) Departamento de Biologia Geral, Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros, Brazil, (3) Forest Engineering, Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, Costa Rica, (4) Soil Department, Universidade Federal Rural of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil3:20pm: S3-7 The future of monitoring tropical secondary dry forests using ad-hoc wireless sensor networks: Hypertemporal characterization of micro-meteorological and biophysical processes cassiDY ranKinE1, Arturo sAncHez-AzofeifA1, MArio MArcos do espirito sAnto2

(1) Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Canada, (2) Departamento de Biologia Geral, Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros, Brazil3:35pm: S3-8 Highlights on the ecology of Brazilian limestone dry forests: Structure, composition, phenology, herbivory, and human use G. Wilson FErnanDEs1, MArcel s. coelHo1, g. Arturo sAncHez-AzofeifA2

(1) Departamento de Biologia Geral, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil, (2) Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department, University of Alberta, Canada

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The Reproductive Biology of a Neotropical Tree, Enterolobium cyclocarpum; The National Tree of Costa Rica moderator: Eric FucHs, Universidad de Costa Ricaorganizer: JamEs l. HamricK, University of Georgia

1:50pm: introductory remarks 1:56pm: S4-1 Variation in flowering phenology within populations of Enterolobium cyclocarpum: Impact on reproductive success oscar rocHa, Department of Biological Sciences, Kent State University2:14pm: S4-2 Comparative analyses of the pollen donor pool of Enterolobium cyclocarpum among years and landscapes pEtEr E. smousE1, evA B. gonzAles2, JuAn J. roBledo-Arnuncio3

(1) Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, Rutgers University, (2) Department of Biology, Saint Louis University, (3) Ecología y Genética Forestal, CIFOR-INIA, Spain2:32pm: S4-3 Pollen movement within populations of Enterolobium cyclocarpum experiencing different levels of disturbance JamEs l. HamricK, University of Georgia2:50pm: S4-4 Long-term patterns of fruit production of Enterolobium cyclocarpum among years and landscapes DorsEt W. trapnEll, Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia3:08pm: S4-5 Insights into seed dispersal and seedling recruitment of Enterolobium cyclocarpum in disturbed landscapes Eva B. GonZalEs1, JAMes l. HAMricK2, peter e. sMouse3 (1) Department of Biology, St Louis University, (2) University of Georgia, (3) Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, Rutgers University3:26pm: S4-6 Genetic connectivity among populations of Enterolobium cyclocarpum in Guanacaste, Costa Rica cristina Garcia, Centro de Investigacao em Biodiversidad e Recursos Geneticos, Universidade do Porto, Portugal3:44pm: discussion

Linking Nutrient and Carbon Cycles in Tropical Forests

moderator: silvia alvarEZ-clarE, University of MontanaorganizerS: silvia alvarEZ-clarE and BEnJamin W. sullivan, University of Montana / maria G. GEi, University of Minnesota

1:50pm: S5-1 The effects of leaf litter manipulation on seedling growth and soil organic phosphorus dynamics in a lowland forest anDrEa G. vincEnt1,2, Ben l. turner2, ed tAnner1

(1) Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, (2) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama2:05pm: S5-2 Tropical tree growth is associated with multiple soil nutrients ricHarD K. KoBE, ellen K. Holste and tHoMAs W. BAriBAult, Department of Forestry, Michigan State University2:20pm: S5-3 Fine root dynamics in relation to nutrient availability in regenerating tropical dry forests

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JEnniFEr s. poWErs, Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota2:35pm: S5-4 Does tree species identity affect soil organic carbon chemistry and soil bacterial community structure? luitGarD scHWEnDEnmann1, gAvin leAr2, KAryne rogers3, troy BAisden3

(1) School of Environment, The University of Auckland, New Zealand, (2) School of Biological Sciences, The University of Auckland, New Zealand, (3) National Isotope Centre, GNS Science, New Zealand2:50pm: S5-5 Linking tropical forest carbon and phosphorus cycles under a changing climate regime tana E. WooD, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, USDA Forest Service3:05pm: S5-6 A functional trait approach to nutrient cycling and restoration rEBEcca ostErtaG1, lAurA WArMAn2, susAn cordell2, Jodie r. scHulten1, nicole M. diMAnno1

(1) Department of Biology, University of Hawaii at Hilo, (2) Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry, USDA Forest Service3:20pm: S5-7 Rates and patterns of biological nitrogen fixation during secondary succession in a lowland tropical rain forest BEnJamin W. sullivan1, MegAn K nAsto1, sAsHA reed2, edgAr ortiz3, BrAulio vilcHez3, roBin l. cHAzdon4, cory c. clevelAnd1

(1) Department of Ecosystem & Conservation Sciences, University of Montana, (2) US Geological Survey, (3) Escuela de Ingeniería Forestal, Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, Costa Rica, (4) Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut3:35pm: S5-8 What controls biological nitrogen fixation in the dry forests of Costa Rica? maria G. GEi and Jennifer s. poWers, Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota

Long-Term Ecological Research in the Tropics: Contributions From US-Based Institutions

moderator: susan corDEll, USDA Forest ServiceorganizerS: susan corDEll, cHristian p. GiarDina and ariEl luGo, USDA Forest Service

1:50pm: introductory remarks 1:55pm: S6-1 The future role of Forest Service research and development in the tropics: Necessary elements for a blueprint Dr. Jim rEavEs, Research & Development, USDAFS2:15pm: S6-2 Novelty of socioecological systems in a tropical city tiscHa a. muñoZ-EricKson, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, USDAFS2:30pm: S6-3 The future role of experimental forest and ranges in conservation and global change biology susan corDEll1, peter A. stine2, Ariel lugo3 (1) Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry, USDA Forest Service, (2) Experimental Forests and Ranges, USDA Forest Service, (3) International Institute of Tropical Forestry, USDA Forest Service2:45pm: S6-4 Project ALAS (Arthropods of La Selva): A case history in the role of OTS and NSF in supporting long-term research in the tropics

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JoHn lonGino1, roBert K. colWell2 (1) Biology, The University of Utah, (2) Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut3pm: S6-5 New changes in the avifauna of La Selva Biological Station: Insights based on twenty- three years of christmas bird counts W. alicE BoYlE, Division of Biology, Kansas State University / BryAn J. sigel, Biology, Nevada State College3:15pm: S6-6 Understanding climate change impacts on forests and watersheds cHristian p. GiarDina, Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry, USDA Forest Service3:30pm: S6-7 CTFS plots and the dynamics of neutral and non-neutral forests ricHArd condit and stuart DaviEs, Center for Tropical Forest Science, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama3:45pm: discussion

Exploring Applications of DNA Barcode Data in Conservation and Ecological Research

moderator: W. JoHn KrEss, Smithsonian Institutionorganizer: DaviD EricKson, Smithsonian Institution

1:50pm: S7-1 DNA barcoding as a tool in amphibian biodiversity assessment along a future road in southern Gabon JEssica l. DEicHmann1, elie toBi1, dAniel g. MulcAHy2, Addison Wynn3, roy McdiArMid3,4, HAdrien vAntHoMMe1

(1) Center for Conservation Education and Sustainability, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, (2) Laboratories of Analytical Biology, Smithsonian Institution, (3) National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, (4) USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center2:05pm: S7-2 Exploring the phylogenetic distribution of tree functional diversity: A comparative study of temperate and tropical forest plots enabled by a DNA barcode mega-phylogeny natHan G. sWEnson1, dAvid ericKson2, W. JoHn Kress2

(1) Michigan State University, (2) Botany, Smithsonian Institution2:20pm: S7-3 Heterospecifics matter: Density dependent survival of seedlings in a tropical moist forest EDWin lEBriJa-trEJos1,2, s. JosepH WrigHt2, Andres HernAndez2, peter B. reicH1,3

(1) Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, (2) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, (3) Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, University of Western Sydney, Australia2:35pm: S7-4 Phylogenomics of a tropical tree family and insights into environmental metagenomics JérômE cHavE1, léA BArdon1, pierre tABerlet2, eric coissAc2, pierre-JeAn MAlé3

(1) EDB, UMR 5174, CNRS/UPS, Toulouse, France, (2) LECA, UMR CNRS/UJF 5553, Grenoble, France, (3) EDB, UMR 5174 CNRS/UPS 31062 Toulouse, France2:50pm: S7-5 Mapping biodiversity and setting conservation priorities for SE Queenslands rainforests using DNA barcoding alison sHapcott1, pAul i. forster2, gordon guyMer2, Bill McdonAld2, dAvid ericKson3, W. JoHn Kress3

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(1) Genecology Research Center, University of Sunshine Coast, Australia, (2) Department of Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts (DSITIA), Queensland Herbarium, Australia, (3) Botany, Smithsonian Institution3:05pm: S7-6 Mapping biodiversity in a tropical forest using a DNA metabarcoding approach piErrE taBErlEt1, eric coissAc1, Aurélie Bonin1, ludovic gielly1, lucie zinger1,2, AMAyA iriBAr2, MAXiMe réJou-MécHAin2, Heidy scHiMAnn3, JérôMe cHAve2

(1) LECA, UMR CNRS/UJF 5553, Grenoble, France, (2) EDB, UMR CNRS/UPS 5174, Toulouse, France, (3) INRA UMR EcoFoG, Kourou, French Guiana3:20pm: S7-7 Meta-barcode analysis of tri-trophic interactions among plant-herbivore-parasitoid complex in Papua New Guinea DaviD EricKson1, scott Miller2, JAn HrceK3, voJtecH novotny4, W. JoHn Kress1

(1) Botany, Smithsonian Institution, (2) Entomology, Smithsonian Institution, (3) Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic, (4) Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic3:35pm: S7-8 Below ground community assembly in a tropical forest revealed through DNA metabarcoding anDY JonEs1,2, stepHen p HuBBell2,3, BrAnt fAirclotH3, Jeff Wolf3

(1) Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, (2) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, (3) Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA

Critical Synthesis From Monitoring Tropical Forest Ecosystems

moderator and organizer: Kaoru KitaJima, University of Florida

4:10pm: S8-1 Tropi-dry: Remote sensing and sensor network for tropical dry forest ecosystems arturo sancHEZ-aZoFEiFa, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department, University of Alberta, Canada4:40pm: S8-2 Accomplishments, failures and challenges in tropical forest ecology: A personal perspective on 40 years’ research DaviD B. clarK, Biology, University of Missouri - St Louis5:10pm: S8-3 New insights into the carbon cycle and metabolism of tropical forests as determined from monitoring networks YaDvinDEr malHi, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Heterogeneity in Tropical Agroecological Landscapes and Its Influence of Ecosystem Services

moderator: KristoFFEr HYlanDEr, Stockholm UniversityorganizerS: KristoFFEr HYlanDEr, JörGEn ruDolpHi, pEtEr a. HamBäcK, Stockholm University

4:10pm: introductory remarks4:15pm: S9-1 Biodiversity and community assembly of arboreal ants in a changing agricultural landscape

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stacY m. pHilpott1, Jörgen rudolpHi2, gABriel H. doMinguez MArtinez3 (1) Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, (2) Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, Sweden, (3) Finca Irlanda Research Station, México4:30pm: S9-2 Direct and indirect effects of ants on epiphytes in coffee agroecosystems in México and Ethiopia JörGEn ruDolpHi1,2, Kristoffer HylAnder1, stAcy M. pHilpott3 (1) Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, Sweden, (2) Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden, (3) Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz4:45pm: S9-3 Bird predation and herbivore damage in homegardens differing in structural complexity in southwestern Ethiopia DEBissa lEmEssa, peter A. HAMBäcK and Kristoffer HylAnder, Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, Sweden5pm: S9-4 Finding the next patch in a cement matrix: habitat for natural enemies of pests in urban agriculture HElDa moralEs, Bruce g. ferguson, BernArdo doMinguez, cristinA peñAlozA and JuAn cArlos vAzQuez, Agricultura, Sociedad y Ambiente, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, México5:15pm: S9-5 Wild mammal crop pests: Management and implications of ecosystem disservices and its effect on livelihoods in southwest Ethiopia tola GEmEcHu anGo, Stockholm University, Sweden5:30pm: concluding remarks

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Community Ecology 1

5:40pm: P1a-1 Spatial distribution of forest tree species in tropical dry forest areas at the Magdalena river (Colombia-South America) omar mElo sr.1, nAtHAly rodríguez1, fernAndo fernández2

(1) University of Tolima, Colombia, (2) Universidad de Tolima, Colombia P1a-2 Characterization of trophic structure and determination of riparian vegetation importance for fish’s diet from coastal streams of Atlantic forest cristina GoncalvEs, frAncisco M.s. BrAgA and liliAn cAsAtti, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil P1a-3 The effect of lianas on tree seedling survival and growth rates in a seasonal forest in Panama laura martínEZ iZquiErDo1, MAríA Muriel gArcíA1, Jennifer s. poWers2, stefAn scHnitzer1,3, (1) University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, (2) Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, (3) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama P1a-4 Contribution of lianas to LAI and canopy structure in a seasonal forest in Panamá maria EliZaBEtH roDriGuEZ-ronDEros1, stefAn A. scHnitzer1,2, Jennifer s. poWers3, gil BoHrer4

(1) Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, (2) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, (3) Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, (4) Department of Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering, The Ohio State University P1a-5 Distribution of freestanding and climbing liana seedlings across a tropical rainfall gradient in central Panama Eric J. manZanE and stefAn A. scHnitzer, Biology, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee P1a-6 Effects of soil type and light availability on seedling growth and biomass partitioning of 22 tree species from a tropical dry forest cHristina mariE smitH1, ellie BergstroM2, Kristen BecKlund2, Justin M. BecKnell2, MAriA g. gei2, Jennifer s. poWers2

(1) Lankester Botanical Garden, University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica, (2) University of Minnesota P1a-7 The importance of biotic factors for palm distribution across an altitudinal gradient in Atlantic forest rita DE cassia quitEtE portEla1, eduArdo Arcoverde de MAttos1, MAriA isABel guedes BrAz1, AleXAndrA pires fernAndez2, luizA HelenA cosMe1, veronicA MArQues1

(1) Ecologia, UFRJ, Brazil, (2) Ciências Ambientais, UFRRJ, Brazil P1a-8 Diversity of ferns and lycophytes along altitudinal gradients in the Atlantic rain forest of southeastern Brazil matEus paciEncia1, pAulo lABiAK2, ronAldo frAncini-filHo3, Jefferson prAdo4 (1) UNIP Herbarium, Universidade Paulista - UNIP, Brazil, (2) Department of Botany, Universidade Federal do Paraná - UFPR, Brazil, (3) Engineering and Environment, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil, (4) Phytotaxonomy, Instituto de Botânica de São Paulo, Brazil

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P1a-9 Dispersal and diversity of Xylaria endophytes in the cloud forest of Ecuador roo vanDEGriFt, dAniAl tHoMAs, AsHley ludden, george c. cArroll and Bitty A. roy, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon P1a-10 How does geomorphological heterogeneity affect structure and β-diversity of the tropical montane oak forests of the El Tepozteco National Park (Morelos state), México? sEBastián BlocK and Jorge A. MeAve, Facultad de Ciencias, Departamento de Ecología y Recursos Naturales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México P1a-11 Vegetative and reproductive phenology in three stages of secondary Tropical dry Forest in Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica ana JuliEta calvo-oBanDo1, Julio c. cAlvo-AlvArAdo1, XiniA MArín- gAitAn1, cesAr JiMénez-rodriguez1, Arturo sAncHez-AzofeifA2

(1) Forest Engineering, Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, Costa Rica, (2) Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department, University of Alberta, Canada P1a-12 Trophic structure of arboreal ants in Cerrado savanna using isotopic analyses: Consequences for multitrophic interactions sEBastian FElipE sEnDoYa1, rAfAel silvA oliveirA2, André v.l. freitAs1, pAulo sergio oliveirA1

(1) Biologia Animal, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil, (2) Biologia Vegetal, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil P1a-13 Allochthonous aquatic prey subsidy terrestrial predators in a tropical riparian rainforest Fátima carolina rEcalDE1, tHAís postAli2, gustAvo Quevedo roMero3 (1) Pós-graduação em Biologia Animal, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil, (2) Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil, (3) Departamento de Biologia Animal, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil P1a-14 Long-term patterns of aquatic macroinvertebrate assemblages in lowland neotropical streams paBlo E. GutiErrEZ-FonsEca1, Alonso rAMírez2 (1) Biology, University of Puerto Rico, (2) Environmental Sciences, University of Puerto Rico P1a-15 Trophic ecology of the sea anemone Anthopleura nigrescens (Cnidaria: Actiniaria) anDrés J. quEsaDa1, fABián H. AcuñA2, Jorge cortés1,3

(1) Escuela de Biología, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica, (2) Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina, (3) Centro de Investigación en Ciencias del Mar y Limnología (CIMAR), Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica

Organismal Biology-Vertebrates

5:40pm: P1b-1 Impact of landscape structure on the foraging behavior of the king vulture mariE-EvE anDrE and sopHie cAlMe, Universite De Sherbrooke, Canada P1b-2 Factors influencing longitudinal patterns of stream fishes in a coastal semi-arid landscape (Caribbean dry forest, Colombia) camilo EscoBar siErra and JuAn felipe BlAnco liBreros, Biology, Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia P1b-3 Oviposition sites choice of Agalychins callidryas: Physical and biological factors influencing reproductive success in La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica EricK BallEstEro1, priscillA oBAndo2, MAHMood sAsA3 (1) Biología, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica, (2) Biología, Universidad

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Nacional, Costa Rica, (3) Instituto Clodomiro Picado, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica P1b-4 Nest predation patterns suggest that it is a key mechanism explaining an understory insectivore’s demographic responses to forest fragmentation DEBoraH m. visco, Tulane University P1b-5 Influence of aerodynamic traits on the dominance hierarchy of a hummingbird assemblage in Costa Rica GErarDo avalos1, ginA lee2, AleJAndrA soto3

(1) Biology, University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica, (2) Biology, Boston University, (3) Ecology and Environmental Science, Elon University

Plant Ecophysiology

5:40pm: P1c-1 Do seedling nutrient responses determine tropical tree distribution patterns across nutrient gradients? DElicia pino1, Ben l. turner2, ricHArd condit3, BettinA engelBrecHt1

(1) Plant Ecology, University of Bayreuth, Germany, (2) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, (3) CTFS, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama P1c-2 Response of tropical tree and mycorrhizal respiration to a warming climate catHErinE FaHEY and KAoru KitAJiMA, Biology, University of Florida P1c-3 How is seed nitrogen concentration correlated with other functional traits in Inga and non-Inga species from two neotropical forests? DaniEllE paloW and KAoru KitAJiMA, Biology, University of Florida P1c-4 Variation in growth and gas exchange among endangered tree species roBErto a. corDEro s.1, J. Antonio guzMán Q.2, gerMAn vArgAs1, JAiro HidAlgo-MorA1, eugenio coreA3

(1) Laboratorio de Ecología Vegetal Funcional, Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, (2) Programa Regional de Posgrado en Biología, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica, (3) Instituto de Investigación y Servicios Forestales, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, Costa Rica P1c-5 Linking forest light availability to morphological and physiological adaptations in two understory herbs anDrEa c. WEstErBanD, Department of Biology, University of Miami P1c-6 Transpiration rates and responses in a tropical pre-montane forest GrEtcHEn millEr1, georgiAnne Moore2, grAcielA orozco3, AndreA duMont1

(1) Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, (2) Ecosystem Science & Management, Texas A&M University, (3) Department of Biological Systems Engineering, Kansas State University P1c-7 Looking for “paradoxical” species: An unusual and optimal tree development strategy in Bagassa guianensis combining high growth rate and high wood quality Julie Bossu1, JAcQues BeAucHene2, eric André nicolini3, Bruno clAir1, FaBiEn WaGnEr4

(1) UMR Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane (EcoFoG), CNRS, France, (2) UMR Ecofog, CIRAD, France, (3) UMR Botanique et Bioinformatique de l’Architecture des Plantes, CIRAD, France, (4) CIRAD, UMR SELMET & EcoFoG, French Guiana

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P1c-8 Water budget of a tropical montane forest, with insights from stable isotope analysis anDrEa Dumont1, gretcHen Miller1, AntHony cAHill1, Kelly BruMBeloW1, georgiAnne Moore2, BrendAn roArK3, estHer BucKWAlter4

(1) Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, (2) Ecosystem Science & Management, Texas A&M University, (3) Department of Geography, Texas A&M University, (4) Environmental Engineering, University at Buffalo

Ecosystem and Landscape Ecology 1

5:40pm: P1d-1 Detailed maps of tropical forests are within reach: Forest tree communities for Trinidad and Tobago mapped with multiseason Landsat and Google Earth EilEEn H. HElmEr, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, USDA Forest Service P1d-2 Land changes between 2001 and 2012 due to gold mining expansion in Latin America nora l. alvarEZ-BErríos, t. MitcHell Aide and cArlos J. corrAdA-BrAvo, University of Puerto Rico P1d-3 Do litterfall manipulation and fertilization alter soil carbon cycling in different pools for a tropical forest? saraH m. HaltErman1, dAnielA cusAcK1, Ben l. turner2, s. JosepH WrigHt2

(1) Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, (2) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama P1d-4 Phenol content reduces leaf decomposition rates in a mountain cloud forest ranDall a. montoYa-solano, gerMAn vArgAs, JAiro HidAlgo and roBerto A. cordero s., Laboratorio de Ecología Vegetal Funcional, Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica P1d-5 Maintenance of mutualistic plant-soil symbiont interactions by means of differential carbon allocation nataliE cHristian and JiM Bever, Biology, Indiana University P1d-6 Changes in phosphorus flux and pools in a Bornean mixed dipterocarp forest in relation to a mast fruiting event rYota aoYaGi and KAneHiro KitAyAMA, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Japan P1d-7 Estimation of soil carbon pool of lowland dipterocarp forest in the Central Kalimantan, Indonesia masaHiro umEDa and MAMoru KAnzAKi, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Japan P1d-8 High soils carbon stock of cattle pasture derived from the amazonian deforestation clémEnt staHl1, lise poncHAnt1, cAMille dézecAcHe1, fABien WAgner1, vincent freycon2, cAtHerine picon-cocHArd3, séBAstien fontAine3, vincent BlAnfort1

(1) CIRAD, UMR SELMET & EcoFoG, French Guiana, (2) CIRAD, UMR SELMET & EcoFoG, France, (3) Inra, UREP, France P1d-9 Development of biomass equations for small woody plants colonizing landslides in the Sierra De Las Minas of Guatemala carlos EstuarDo ciFuEntEs1, dAvid eliAs MendietA1, Jorge vArgAs2, cesAr gArciA1, cArlA restrepo3

(1) Recursos Naturales, Universidad San Carlos de Guatemala, Guatemala,

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(2) Biologia, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, Guatemala, (3) Biology, University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras P1d-10 Climate, soil and spatial factors controlling forest characteristics over a 2500 m elevational gradient in Costa Rica Darío alFrEDo vEintimilla1, BryAn finegAn1, diego delgAdo1, sergio vilcHez2, nelson zAMorA3

(1) Producción y Conservación en Bosques, Centro Agronómico Tropical de Inves- tigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), Costa Rica, (2) Bioestadística, CATIE, Costa Rica, (3) Herbario, Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad de Costa Rica, INBio, Costa Rica

Restoration of Tropical Forests

5:40pm: P1e-1 Do native grasses impair tropical forest restoration like invasives do? ricarDo GomEs césar1, ricArdo Augusto gorne viAni2, pedro HenriQue sAntin BrAncAlion1, MilenA cAndido silvA3 (1) Forest Sciences University of São Paulo, Brazil, (2) Biotecnology and Animal and Plant Production, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil, (3) Replantar Cooperative, Brazil P1e-2 Regeneration of the cloud forest landscape in Veracruz, México: The potential role of seed banks guAdAlupe WilliAMs linerA1, martHa Bonilla-moHEno2, fABiolA lópez-BArrerA1 (1) Functional Ecology, Instituto de Ecologia, AC, México, (2) Environment and Sustaintability, Instituto de Ecología, AC, México P1e-3 Foraging ecology of a granivory ant in an experimental restoration setting in a Mexi- can dry tropical forest JaimE HErnánDEZ-FlorEs1, MArcelA osorio-BeristAin2, cristinA MArtinez-gArzA2

(1) Biología Integrativa de la Biodiversidad y la Conservación, México, (2) Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Conservación, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, México P1e-4 The study of altered environments as a strategy base for biodiversity conservation and restoration in the Mexican tropics Juan carlos lopEZ acosta, MAríA cristinA MAc sWiney gonzález, noé velAzQuez, tHorsten KröMer, soniA sAncHez lópez and ernesto rodriguez-lunA, Centro de Investigaciones Tropicales, Universidad Veracru- zana, México P1e-5 Evaluation of forest conservation interventions; the case of forest management certification clauDia romEro1, frAncis e. putz1,2, erin o. sills1,3, MAnuel r. guAriguAtA1, pAolo cerutti1, guillAuMe lescuyer4

(1) CIFOR, Indonesia, (2) Biology, University of Florida, (3) Forestry & Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, (4) CIFOR, Cameroon P1e-6 The recovery of ecosystem functioning during tropical forest succession maDElon loHBEcK1, Miguel MArtinez-rAMos2, lourens poorter1,3, frAns Bongers1

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(1) Forest Ecology and Forest Management group, Wageningen University, Netherlands, (2) Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, (3) Instituto Boliviano de Investigación Forestal (IBIF), Bolivia P1e-7 Tropical forest restoration: A case study in the Selva Lacandona, México rocio aGuilar FErnanDEZ1,2, JuliA cArABiAs lillo1

(1) Natura y Ecosistemas Mexicanos, AC, México, (2) Instituto de Ecología, UNAM, México P1e-8 Direct seeding native trees as a restoration strategy for rural Andean landscapes: Empirical data from south Ecuador antonio m. crEspo1, cArrie A. reinHArdt2, MAyrA JiMenez3 (1) Tropical Conservation and Development, University of Florida, (2) Environmental Horticulture, University of Florida, (3) Escuela de Biología, Universidad del Azuay, Ecuador P1e-9 Plant functional types of native tree species for ecological resoration in tropical Andean forests in Colombia natHalY roDríGuEZ1, oMAr Melo sr1, fernAndo fernández2

(1) University of Tolima, Colombia, (2) Universidad de Tolima, Colombia P1e-10 Restoring extremely degraded pasture for ecological and economic benefits F. lYnn carpEntEr, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine P1e-11 Direct seeding of pioneers and non-pioneer trees in a tropical deciduous forest under different restoration treatments lEsliE alBa and cristinA MArtinez-gArzA, Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Conservación, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos,

Conservation Biology 1

5:40pm: P1f-1 Restoration and reforestation to create biological corridors in the humid neotropics: Case study from La Gamba, Costa Rica Anton WeissenHofer1, DaniEl JEnKinG2, ricHArd HAstiK3, Werner HuBer4 (1) Department of Tropical Ecology, Universität Wien, Austria, (2) Estacion Tropical La Gamba, Costa Rica, (3) University of Innsbruck, Austria, (4) Tropical Ecology, Universität Wien, Austria P1f-2 Integral projection population dynamic model of an invasive tree in a Pacific island rain forest: Strawberry guava in Hawaii carol HorvitZ1, Julie densloW2, orou gAoue3, AMAndA uoWolo2 (1) Biology, University of Miami, (2) Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry, USDA Forest Service, (3) National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) P1f-3 Camera-trapping wild carnivores in central Amazonia: implications for conservation and management in sustainable-use reserves clarissa s. pimEnta1, fernAndA A. Meirelles1, eduArdo M. von MuHlen2, eduArdo M. venticinQue3

(1) Graduate Program in Ecology, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Brazil, (2) Instituto Piagaçu, Brazil, (3) Departamento de Botânica, Ecologia e Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

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P1f-4 Subsidies for the public use plan of the Sumaúma State Park, Brazil vEra lúcia Falcão DE olivEira1, virgilio MAurício viAnA2, rogério fonsecA3

(1) INPA, Brazil, (2) FAS, Brazil, (3) UFAM, Brazil P1f-5 Cultivating critical thinking skills among conservation biology students martHa J. Groom, University of Washington P1f-6 Phenology and management of seed stands in community conservation areas of the tropical dry forest of Michoacán, Mexico aDriana n. luna1, guillerMo M. iBArrA2, AnA t. Burgos3 (1) Biogeografía y Conservación, Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, (2) Centro de investigaciones en Ecosistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, (3) Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México P1f-7 Unknown tradeoffs: Payments for water and pollination services in the Nicoya peninsula, Costa Rica sara m. GalBraitH1,2, oscAr J. ABelleirA MArtínez2,3, nilsA A. BosQue pérez1, AleX K. freMier3, sven gÜnter2, Jenny ordoñez2,4

(1) Plant, Soil, and Entomological Sciences, University of Idaho, (2) Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), Costa Rica, (3) Fish and Wildlife Resources, University of Idaho, (4) International Center for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF), Costa Rica P1f-8 Three decades of biological work on Guana Island, British Virgin Islands: An overview GaD pErrY1, JAMes lAzell2, liAnnA JArecKi3 (1) Natural Resource Management, Texas Tech University, (2) The Conservation Agency (3) Guana Science, British Virgin Islands P1f-9 Home range and habitat use of ringtail in a peri-urban area DanEllY solalinDE-varGas1, dAvid vAlenzuelA-gAlván2, MArcelA osorio-BeristAin2, ruriK list3

(1) Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos (UAEM), México, (2) Ecología Evolutiva, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos (UAEM), México, (3) Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Lerma, México P1f-10 Towards understanding and managing spatial dynamics of tropical bracken (Pteridium spec.) in the Sierra del Lacandón National Park in Guatemala Kristina osEn1, Birgit ziegenHAgen1, lAurA geiger2

(1) Conservation Biology Group, Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany, (2) Centre for Econics and Ecosystem Management, Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, Germany P1f-11 The effects of different habitat disturbances on phenological patterns of the seasonally dry tropical forest tree Enterolobium contortisiliquum (Fabaceae) patrícia DE aBrEu morEira1, tHAyAnA BArBosA prAtes2, fláviA cordeiro nAsciMento2, g. Wilson fernAndes3, Jorge Arturo loBo4

(1) Departamento de Biologia Celular e Genética, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, (2) Departamento de Biologia Geral, Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros, Brazil, (3) Departamento de Biologia Geral, Uni- versidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil, (4) Escuela de Biología, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica

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P1f-12 Management of Astrocaryum chambira (Arecaceae) for handicraft production in the Colombian Amazon néstor García1, gloriA gAleAno2

(1) Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia, (2) Grupo de Investigación en Palmas Silvestres Neotropicales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia P1f-13 Genetic and ecological consequences of forest fragmentation for the palm Oenocarpus bataua luKE BroWnE1, KyM otteWell2, JordAn KAruBiAn3 (1) Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University, (2) Department of Environment and Conservation, Australia, (3) Tulane University P1f-14 Factors affecting coastal erosion in the southern Caribbean, Costa Rica lilliana maria piEDra1, luis MAnuel sierrA1, AidA cAridAd Hernández2, MAiKol cAstillo sr1, MArco Antonio rAMírez1

(1) Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, (2) Departamento de Bentos, Instituto de Oceanología, Cuba P1f-15 Impacts on valuable wetlands by the ship industry GaBY H. HoBart, MSc Geography, Red Frog Tour SA, Costa Rica P1f-16 Field station: Tropenstation La Gamba in Costa Rica WErnEr HuBEr, Tropical Ecology, Universität Wien, Austria

Socioecological Systems

5:40pm: P1g-1 Projecting the future of REDD+ landscapes with agent-based modeling clAudiA roMero1, MicHAel l. BAuMAn2, seBAstiAn pAlMAs sr3, sAMi WAlid rifAi3, AnAnd roopsind1, ruslAndi ruslAndi4, tHAles West1, sArAH grAves1, indAH Bong1, gerMAin MAvAH1, siMone AtHAyde1, stepHAnie BoHlMAn3, Wendell cropper3, Francis E. putZ4

(1) Tropical Conservation and Development, University of Florida, (2) School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Florida, (3) School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, (4) Biology, University of Florida P1g-2 Influence of soil and topography on growth performance and biomass accumulation of afforested pastures in southeast Brazil dietMAr sAttler1, lArA t. MurrAy2, Andre KircHner3, anDrE linDnEr4 (1) Landscape Ecology, Universität Leipzig, Germany, (2) US Forest Service, (3) Geography, Universität Leipzig, Germany, (4) Tropical Forestry, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany P1g-3 Biocultural interactions: The role of Ficus in the Betsileo agrarian lands and Ranomafana-Andringitra corridor for biodiversity conservation and landscape development vEroHanitra raFiDison Jr1, BAKoliMAlAlA rAKoutH1, yildiz AuMMeeruddy-tHoMAs sr2

(1) Plant Biology and Ecology, University of Madagascar, Madagascar, (2) Centre Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Equipe Interactions Bioculturelles, France P1g-4 Plant use by local community-based artisans within the Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve, Veracruz, México rosAMond coAtes1, armanDo aGuirrE-JaimEs2, AlvAro cAMpos1 (1) Estación de Biología Tropical Los Tuxtlas, Instituto de Biología-UNAM, México, (2) Interacciones Multitróficas, Instituto de Ecología AC, México

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P1g-5 Smallholder farmer natural resource management within the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor of Panama KatHErinE DEnnis, Recreation, Park & Tourism Sciences, Texas A&M University P1g-6 Floristic composition and richness of the urban domestic gardens of the Pirro River Watershed, Heredia roXana maría GonZálEZ-Ball1, tAniA BerMúdez-roJAs1, MArilyn roMero2, lilliAnA piedrA-cAstro1

(1) Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, (2) Escuela de Ciencias Geográficas, Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica P1g-8 Application of Costa Rican conservation and sustainable agriculture models on United States agriculture and ecosystems saraH l. mEiss and cArol Bocetti, Biological and Environmental Sciences, California University of Pennsylvania

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Tropical Silviculture and the Ecology of Working Forests8am: O10-1 Not all forests are created equal: Tree species composition in primary, unplanted secondary, and communally restored cloud forests in northwest Andean Ecuador saraH JanE Wilson and oliver t cooMes, Geography, McGill University, Canada8:15am: O10-2 Forest disturbance reduces stem CO2 efflux from trees in the central Amazon norBErt KunErt1,2, liliAne M. teiXeirA2, Jeffrey Q. cHAMBers3, niro HigucHi2, JoAQuiM dos sAntos2, susAn truMBore1, dAniel MAgnABosco MArrA4

(1) Biogeochemical Processes, Max Planck for Biogeochemistry, Germany, (2) Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Brazil, (3) Climate Sciences Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 8:30am: O10-3 Assessing logging impacts on fruit and nut production in the brazil nut tree (Bertholletia excelsa): Implications for multiple-use forest management in western Amazonia cara a. rocKWEll1, MAnuel r. guAriguAtA2, MAry Menton3, eriKs Arroyo Quispe4, eleAnor WArren-tHoMAs1, JuliA QuAedvlieg5

(1) CIFOR, Peru, (2) CIFOR, Indonesia, (3) Global Canopy Programme, United Kingdom, (4) Universidad Nacional Amazonica de Madre de Dios, Peru, (5) Initiative for Conservation in the Andean Amazon, Peru8:45am: O10-4 Tropical deforestation: 50 years ago, today and 50 years in the future DouGlas BoucHEr, pipA eliAs, lAel goodMAn, cAlen MAy-toBin and sArAH roQueMore, Union of Concerned Scientists9:00am: O10-5 How tropical forests can survive the 21st century GarY HartsHorn, World Forestry Center9:15am: O10-6 Effects of land-use intensification on plant functional properties, and ecosystem processes in lowland Bolivia GEovana carrEño-rocaBaDo1,2, lourens poorter1,2, MArielos peñA-clAros1,2, frAns Bongers2

(1) Instituto Boliviano de Investigación Forestal (IBIF), Bolivia, (2) Forest Ecology and Forest Management group, Wageningen University, Netherlands, 9:30am: O10-7 The tropical production forest observatory sentinel landscape: The effect of logging on timber volume and carbon storage plinio sist1, mariElos pEña-claros2

(1) CIRAD, France, (2) Forest Ecology and Forest Management group, Wageningen University, Netherlands

Ecology and Behavior–Arthropods

8am: O11-1 Climate, host plant, and selection for a key morphological trait in the symbiotic plant-ant, Azteca pittieri EliZaBEtH G. prinGlE, University of Michigan8:15am: O11-2 The impact of seasonality on the physiology and distribution of tropical and temperate beetles KimBErlY s. sHElDon1, JosHuA J. teWKsBury2 (1) Biology, University of Utah, (2) Luc Hoffmann Institute - WWF, Switzerland8:30am: O11-3 Top-down effects of an odonate dominate population, community and ecosystem processes in bromeliads

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DianE s. srivastava, Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Canada8:45am: O11-4 Arthropod community response to supplemental floral resources in coffee agroforestry systems valEriE pEtErs, Department of Zoology, Miami University9:00am: O11-5 Particular behavioral adjustments of Ptilosphen viriolatus (Diptera; Micropezidae) allow increased intake of sugars over competitors FErnanDo G. solEY, Escuela de Biología, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica9:15am: O11-6 Specificity of the fungi used in carton runway galleries in the (ant - plant) Azteca brevis - Tetrathylacium macrophyllum association maXimilian nEpEl1, veroniKA e. MAyer1, HerMAnn voglMAyr2, JÜrg scHönenBerger1

(1) Structural and Functional Botany, University of Vienna, Austria, (2) Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Vienna, Austria9:30am: O11-7 Big rewards for plants that host small timid ants: Ocotea and Myrmelachista KElliE m. KuHn, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut9:45am: O11-8 Copulatory behavior in a haplogine spider: Males use differential genitalic movements for sperm removal and copulatory courtship lucíA cAlBAcHo-rosA1, ivette gAliciA-MendozA2, MAríA sofíA dutto3, AleJAndro córdoBA-AguilAr4, alFrEDo v. pErEtti1

(1) Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal, CONICET - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, (2) Grupo de Ecología Evolutiva e da Conservación, Universidade de Vigo, Spain, (3) CONICET, Argentina, (4)Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México

Conservation Biology; Human Impacts on Animal Communities

8am: O12-1 Importance of secondary forests and riparian zones for amphibian assemblages in human modified landscapes omar HErnanDEZ-orDóñEZ1, MArtín cervAntes-lópez1, Bráulio A. sAntos2, Miguel MArtinez-rAMos1, AleXAnder pyro3

(1) Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, (2) Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, Universidade Federal da Paraiba, Brazil, (3) Systematics and Evolution in the Department of Biological Sciences, The George Washington University8:15am: O12-2 Baseline levels of total mercury in three feeding guilds of neotropical bats (Chiroptera) prior to the onset of heavy mercury use in river gold mining anJail Kumar, Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology8:30am: O12-3 High thermal tolerance acts as a preadaptation to deforestation in amphibians luKE o. FrisHKoFF1, gretcHen c. dAily2, elizABetH HAdly1

(1) Biology, Stanford University, (2) Center for Conservation Biology, Stanford University8:45am: O12-4 Crisis in the canopy: Oil road effects on an Amazonian high canopy anuran community sHaWn F. mccracKEn and MicHAel r.J. forstner, Biology, Texas State University-San Marcos9am: O12-5 Interacting effects of land use and climate on ant communities in submontane ecosystems of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

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marcEll K. pEtErs, AntoniA MAyr and ingolf steffAn-deWenter, Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, University of Wuerzburg, Germany9:15am: O12-6 Towards detection and monitoring of range shifts due to climate change: Current analogues of future climate show the likely response of sensitive montane tropical birds to a warming world alEXanDEr siBtHorpE anDErson, Centre for Tropical Biodiversity and Climate Change, James Cook University, Australia9:30am: O12-7 Brave new world of drone technology for biodiversity research and conservation lian pin KoH1,2, serge WicH3

(1) Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, (2) Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, (3) Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom9:45am: O12-8 The richness and abundance of birds in bofedales of the central Andes of Peru: Are these affected by linear disturbances? GracE p. sErvat1, renzo p. Alcocer2, MAgAly l. olArte2, Melvi lArico2

(1) Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, (2) Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional de San Agustin, Arequipa, Peru

Ecosystem Monitoring and Restoration

10:20am: O13-1 Integrating satellite and field measurement data to improve the understanding of carbon uptake by tree growth in French Guiana FaBiEn WaGnEr1, vivien rossi1, cléMent stAHl1, dAMien BonAl2, Bruno HerAult1

(1) CIRAD, UMR Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane, French Guiana, (2) Inra, UMR INRA-UHP Ecologie et Ecophysiologie Forestière, France10:35am: O13-2 Patterns of fire and biodiversity in Australian tropical savanna: A critical analysis of the relationships between satellite derived fire histories and terrestrial fauna Justin JamEs pErrY, eric vAnderduys, genevieve perKins and Anders ziMny, Ecosystems Sciences, CSIRO, Australia10:50am: O13-3 Monitoring tropical dry forest by identification of plant species in the long-wave infrared emissivity spectra Dominica ElainE Harrison and Arturo sAncHez, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Canada11:05am: O13-4 Using NIR to distinguish tree species from different geographic regions in the Amazon basin Flavia macHaDo DurGantE1, AlBerto vicentini2, pAul vA fine3, Jeffrey Q. cHAMBers4, gABriel dAMAsco3

(1) Forest Management Lab, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Brazil, (2) Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Brazil, (3) Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, (4) Climate Sciences Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory11:20am: O13-5 Effects of manipulated succession in the seed rain and the frugivores community in a Mexican secondary dry tropical forest cristina martinEZ-GarZa1, MArcelA osorio-BeristAin1, lidiA gAMBoA- villA1, AlondrA nicolAs2, leslie AlBA1

(1) Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, México, (2) Escuela de Biología, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, México

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11:35am: O13-6 Tropical forest restoration: Trajectories of early species growth and natural recruitment across a gradient of planted species diversity alEX c. Gilman1, MAliA fincHer2, susAn g letcHer3, tArA MAssAd4, Jose dAniel zAMorA MeJíAs5

(1) OTS, Costa Rica, (2) Samford University, (3) Purchase College, (4) University of Chicago, (5) University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica11:50am: O13-7 Extensive and intensive ecosystem restoration monitoring across complex central Andean landscapes rEYnalDo linarEs-palomino1, Alfonso Alonso1, frAncisco dAllMeier1, JessicA l. deicHMAnn1, ericA dHoloo2, roBert lAngstrotH3, godofredo MAMAni4, AlinA pAce1, verónicA sáenz2, cAtHerine sAHley1 (1) Center for Conservation Education and Sustainability, Smithsonian Conserva- tion Biology Institute, Peru, (2) PeruLNG, Peru, (3) Environ International (4) Grandes Montañas y Consultores SAC, Peru12:05pm: O13-8 The importance of climber synusia on ecological restoration processes using brushwood transposition vEriDiana DE lara WEisEr, osMAr cAvAssAn and isABelA BerAldo de souzA, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, São Paulo State University, Brazil

Plant-Animal Interactions: Dispersers and Pollinators

10:20am: O14-1 Differential contribution of bird and bats to forest succession in a tropical pasture under restoration treatments marinés DE la pEña-DomEnE1, AlondrA nicolás-MedinA2, editH rivAs-Alonso3, Henry f. HoWe1, cristinA MArtinez-gArzA3

(1) University of Illinois at Chicago, (2) Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, México, (3) Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Conservación, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, México10:35am: O14-2 The role of dispersal and passed interactions on the spatial and genetic structure of sympatric wild nutmeg tree species mauricio FErnánDEZ otárola1,2, MArlies sAziMA3

(1) Escuela de Biología, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica, (2) Ecologia, UNICAMP, Brazil, (3) Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil10:50am: O14-3 Ant-repelling pollinators: Unique pollination strategy of the ant-plant macaranga (Euphorbiaceae) Eri YamasaKi, Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University, Japan11:05am: O14-4 Beta diversity of plant-pollinator interactions: Relating turnover in species and inter actions across space DaniEl W. carstEnsEn1, MAlenA sABAtino2, pAtriciA c. MorellAto1 (1) Botany, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil, (2) Laboratoria Ecotono, Argentina11:20am: O14-5 Gene flow across a fragmented landscape in the hummingbird pollinated timber species Symphonia globulifera (Clusiaceae) WEnDY solís and eric fucHs, Escuela de Biología, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica11:35pm: O14-6 Pollination service from fragmented forest at different elevation gradient : A case study of Sikkim mandarin orange

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urBasHi praDHan and dr. souBAdrA devy M., Academy for Conservation Science and Sustainability Studies, Ashoka Trust For Research in Ecology and the Environment, India11:50am: O14-7 The effects of bat pollinator movement on genetic structure and diversity of the tree Crescentia alata pamEla G. tHompson1, victoriA l. sorK1, peter e. sMouse2

(1) Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, (2) Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, Rutgers University12:05pm: O14-8 The relative contribution of pollen and seed dispersal to gene movement and genetic structure in the neotropical palm tree Oenocarpus bataua JorDan KaruBian1, KyM otteWell2, victoriA l. sorK3 (1) Tulane University, (2) Department of Environment and Conservation, Australia, (3) Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles

Ecosystem Ecology: Nutrient Cycles

10:20am: O15-1 Maintenance of soil fertility: Plant longevity trumps biodiversity JoHn J. EWEl1, MAríA JuliA MAzzArino2, setH W. BigeloW1, gerArdo celis3

(1) Biology, University of Florida, (2) Soil Science, CRUB-CONICET, Argentina, (3) School of Natural Resources & Environment, University of Florida10:35am: O15-2 Nutrient resorption is associated with high leaf vein density and drives growth performance of dipterocarp tree species Jiao-lin ZHanG1, sHi-BAo zHAng2, yA-Jun cHen1, yi-ping zHAng1, lourens poorter3

(1) Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, (2) Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, (3) Forest Ecology and Management Chair Group, Wageningen University, Netherlands10:50am: O15-3 Urine increases woody decomposition in an inland, but not coastal, tropical forest despite depressing the detrital communities of both nataliE a. claY1, dAvid donoso2, MicHAel KAspAri1,3 (1) Zoology, University of Oklahoma, (2) Departamento de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Ecuador, (3) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama11:05am: O15-4 Biomass gains but biodiversity loss: Contrasting responses to changes in hydrological conditions in Amazonian forests Flavia r.c. costa1, JuliAnA scHietti2, tHAise eMilio1, gABriel MAssAine MoulAtlet1, cArlos AlBerto QuesAdA1, JocHen scHongArt2, deMetrius lirA MArtins1, Bruno B.l. cintrA1, priscilA f. souzA1, José luis purri veigA pinto3, cAMilo dAleles rennó4, JAvier toMAsellA5, WilliAM ernest MAgnusson (1) Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Brazil, (2) Max Plank, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Brazil, (3) GEOMA Network, Brazil, (4) National Institute for Space Research - INPE, Brazil, (5) National Center for Natural Disaster Monitoring and Alert - CEMADEN, Brazil11:20am: O15-5 Effects of continued nutrient addition on productivity and tree performance in Andean forests

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JuErGEn HomEiEr, AVH Institute for Plant Sciences, Germany11:35am: O15-6 Do changes in soil nutrient availability conform across topographic (~100 m) and regional gradients (~100 km) in soil weathering in wet lowland tropical forests? WolFGanG WanEK, Terrestrial Ecosystem Research, University of Vienna, Austria11:50am: O15-7 Variation in wood nutrient stoichiometry along a soil fertility gradient in a Panamanian lower montane forest KatiE D. HEinEman1, Ben l. turner2, JiM W. dAlling1

(1) University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, (2) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama12:05pm: O15-8 Biological processes influence nutrient limitation in a Costa Rican lowland tropical forest silvia alvarEZ-clarE1, MicHelle MAcK2 (1) University of Montana, (2) Department of Biology, University of Florida

Secondary Succession

10:20am: O16-1 Agricultural intensification in a neotropical biological corridor: Can functional connectivity for frugivorous bats be maintained? KatE clEarY1,2, lisette WAits1, BryAn finegAn2

(1) Fish and Wildlife Sciences, University of Idaho, (2) Production and Conservation in Forests Programme, Tropical Agricultural Centre for Research and Higher Education (CATIE), Costa Rica, 10:35am: O16-2 Four years of secondary tropical dry forest aboveground net primary productivity Justin m. BEcKnEll1, Jennifer s. poWers2 (1) Biology, Carleton College, (2) Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota10:50am: O16-3 Influence of successional age on tree community composition and above-ground biomass in tropical Australian rainforest miriam GoosEm and susAn g.W. lAurAnce, Centre for Tropical Environ- mental and Sustainability Science, School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Australia11:20am: O16-4 Understanding patterns of tropical forest succession – A case study in Singapore siEW cHin cHua and MAttHeW potts, Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California-Berkeley11:35am: O16-5 Shifts in dominance and species assemblages over two decades in alternative successions in central Amazonia JoHn BEnJamin lonGWortH1, ritA MesQuitA2, tony vizcArrA Bentos2, MArcelo MoreirA3, pAulo MAssocA4, g. Bruce WilliAMson1

(1) Louisiana State University, (2) PDBFF, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Brazil, (3) Fundação Vitória Amazônica, Brazil, (4) INPA, Brazil11:50am: O16-6 Successional trajectories of secondary forests in central Panama DaisY H. DEnt1,2, sAArA J. deWAlt3, Julie densloW4, oMAr lopez5 (1) University of Stirling, United Kingdom, (2) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, (3) Biological Sciences, Clemson University, (4) Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry, USDA Forest Service, (5) INDICASAT, Panama12:05pm: O16-7 Changing drivers of tree biomass increment during secondary forest succession in northeastern Costa Rica

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Danaë ma roZEnDaal and roBin l. cHAzdon, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut

Mammals and Birds: Extinction Risks and Conservations

1:50pm: O17-1 Conserving tropical nomads clairE runGE, Environmental Decisions Group, University of Queensland, Australia2:05pm: O17-2 Connectivity between habitat patches for an endangered endemic primate: Callicebus oenanthe in San Martin, Perú JEnniFEr J. sWEnson1, dAnicA J. scHAffer-sMitH1, Antonio J. BovedA- penAlBA2

(1) Nicholas School of Environment, Duke University, (2) Proyecto Mono Tocon, Peru2:20pm: O17-3 Population size and conservation strategies for the northeast rufous gnateater: A threatened subspecies from a relict of Atlantic forest ilEYnE tEnório lopEs and Wesley silvA, Departamento de Biologia Animal, Universidade Estadual de Campinas - UNICAMP, Brazil2:35pm: O17-4 Distribution, ecology, and conservation of baird’s tapir (Tapirus bairdii) in Nicaragua cHristopHEr a. JorDan1, gerAld r. urQuHArt1, AlvAro siMons2 (1) Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, (2) Community of Karawala, Nicaragua2:50pm: O17-5 Red Lists do not capture bird functional and phylogenetic diversity José HiDasi-nEto, rAfAel diAs loyolA and MArcus vinicius ciAnciAruso, Department of Ecology, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil3:05pm: O17-6 Global patterns of terrestrial vertebrate diversity and conservation clinton n. JEnKins1, stuArt l. piMM2, lucAs n. JoppA3

(1) Department of Biology, North Carolina State University, (2) Nicholas School of the Environment, Conservation Biology, Duke University, (3) Microsoft Research, United Kingdom3:20pm: O17-7 Near-complete extinction of native small mammal fauna from forest fragments luKE GiBson, Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore3:35pm: O17-8 Density and spatial/temporal patterns of activity of the endangered baird´s tapir in El Triunfo, México EDuarDo mEnDoZa ramirEZ1, oscAr godïnez-góMez2, JuAn pAulo cArBAJAl-Borges3

(1) Instituto de Investigaciones sobre los Recursos Naturales (INIRENA), Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, México, (2) Zoology, Instituto de investigaciones sobre los Recursos Naturales, México, (3) CIECO, UNAM, México

Species Turn-Over and Beta-Diversity

1:50pm: O18-1 Contrasting drivers of forest taxonomic and functional turnover in a neotropical land scape aDina cHain-GuaDarrama1, BryAn finegAn1, lee A. vierling2, steven e. sesnie3, zAyrA rAMos1

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(1) Graduate School, Tropical Agricultural Centre for Research and Higher Education (CATIE), Costa Rica, (2) Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences, University of Idaho, (3) Southwest Natural Resources Inventory and Monitoring, US Fish and Wildlife Service2:05pm: O18-2 Heterogeneity of large fauna communities in various forested landscapes of French Guiana cEcilE ricHarD-HansEn1, gAelle JAouen2, olivier BrunAuX3, tHoMAs denis1,2, stepHAne guitet3,4

(1) ONCFS-DER, French Guiana, (2) UMR EcoFoG, French Guiana, (3) ONF - Pôle Recherche et Développement Guyane, French Guiana, (4) INRA, UMR Amap, France2:20pm: O18-3 Relating species richness to the structure of continuous landscapes: Alternative method- ological approaches José alBErto GallarDo-cruZ1, José luis Hernández-stefAnoni2,Jorge A. MeAve1, AngelinA MArtínez-yrízAr3, sergi lloBet1, dietMAr Moser4

(1) Ecología y Recursos Naturales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, (2) Unidad de Recursos Naturales, Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán, AC, México, (3) Instituto de Ecología, Unidad Hermosillo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, (4) Vienna Institute for Nature Conser- vation and Analysis, Austria2:35pm: O18-4 Woody species diversity along environmental gradients: Results from 01-ha plots in Western México and Mesoamerica José antonio váZquEZ-García1, Miguel ángel Muñiz-cAstro1, yAlMA luisA vArgAs-rodríguez2, rAMón cuevAs-guzMán3, eduArdo sAHAgún- godínez4, ernesto de cAstro-Arce1

(1) Instituto de Botánica, Laboratorio de Ecosistemática, Universidad de Guadalajara-CUCBA, México, (2) Life Science, Louisiana State University, (3) Ecología y Manejo, Universidad de Guadaljara-CUCSUR, México, (4) Herbario y Jardín Botánico GUADA, Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara, México2:50pm: O18-5 Spatial turnover of taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic tree diversity across broad environmental gradients in Puerto Rico BoB muscarElla1, MAriA uriArte1, dAvid ericKson2, W. JoHn Kress2, nAtHAn g. sWenson3, Jess K. ziMMerMAn4

(1) Ecology, Evolution, Environmental Biology, Columbia University, (2) Botany, Smithsonian Institution, (3) Michigan State University, (4) Environmental Sciences, University of Puerto Rico - Río Piedras3:05pm: O18-6 Hydrological control on Amazonian palms coexistence and richness tHaisE Emilio1, flAviA r.c. costA1, JuliAnA scHietti1, José luis purri veigA pinto2, WilliAM ernest MAgnusson1, JAvier toMAsellA3, soren fAurBy4, Jens-cHristiAn svenning4

(1) Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Brazil, (2) GEOMA Network, Brazil, (3) National Center for Natural Disaster Monitoring and Alert-CEMADEN, Brazil, (4) Ecoinformatics & Biodiversity Group, Aarhus University, Denmark3:20pm: O18-7 Beta-diversity of arthropod communities in Amazonian forests GrEG lamarrE1, pAul vA fine2, itAlo Mesones2, cHristopHer BArAloto3 (1) Department of Community Ecology, UMR Ecofog, French Guiana, (2) Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, (3) INRA, UMR EcoFoG, French Guiana

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3:35pm: O18-8 Patterns of alfa and beta avian diversity along an ecological gradient on the Rio Branco, a white-water Amazonian River luciano nicolas naKa1, Alice c. plAsKievicz2, tHiAgo o. lArAnJeirAs3, MArcelA de f.M. torres4

(1) Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil, (2) Universidade Federal de Roraima, Brazil, (3) Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade, Brazil, (4) Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Brazil

Mangrove Ecosystems

1:50pm: O19-1 Comparing aquatic food webs in different vegetated coastal habitats of southern Gulf of México alEJanDra sEpúlvEDa-loZaDa1, ulricH sAint-pAul1, MAnuel MendozA- cArrAnzA2, MAttHiAs Wolff3 (1) Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT), Germany, (2) Sistemas de Producción Alternativos, Pesquerías Artesanales, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, ECOSUR Unidad Villahermosa, México, (3) Ecology, Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT), Germany2:05pm: O19-2 The intrincate evolutionary history of the red mangrove hybrid complex (Rhizophora mangle and Rhizophora racemosa) in the neotropics ivania cEron-souZa1, eldredge BerMingHAM1, gonzAlo nieto-feliner2

(1) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, (2) Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC, Spain2:20pm: O19-3 Effects of seasonality on tree physiology and growth performances of Caribbean mangrove species FEliX BompY, MAguy dulorMne, Benoit dufAy, eléonore MirA, gAutHier leQueue, niels de girvAl, vAnessA virApin and dAniel iMBert, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe2:35pm: O19-4 Sediment aeration and CO2 efflux rate of Ucides cordatus burrows in a Brazilian mangrove forest natHaliE pülmanns1, KAren diele2, ingA nordHAus1, ulf MeHlig3, ulricH sAint pAul1 (1) Leibniz-Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (Leibniz-ZMT), Germany, (2) School for Life, Sport and Social Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom, (3) Laboratório de Biologia Vegetal, Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil2:50pm: O19-5 Neotropical estuarine mangrove fish assemblages: Regional taxonomic consistencies and local tide- and salinity-related patterns Gustavo a. castEllanos-GalinDo1,2,3, uWe KruMMe2,4

(1) Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology-ZMT, Germany, (2) Center of Excellence in Marine Sciences-CEMarin, Colombia, (3) Grupo de Investigación en Ecología de Estuarios y Manglares-Universidad del Valle, Colombia, (4) Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries (TI-OF), Germany3:05pm: O19-6 Mangrove management at the gulf of Kutch, India for coastal protection and resilience to climate change ulricH saint paul1, BHArAt JetHvA2,3

(1) Mangrove Ecology, Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT), Germany, (2) ISME Project, Gujarat, India, (3) Mangrove Society of India ISME Project in Gujarat, India

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3:20pm: O19-7 Spatial patterns of Avicennia germinans mangrove trees during natural restoration: Inferences on the importance of intraspecific facilitation aor prancHai1,2, JuliAne vogt1, yue lin3, utA Berger1

(1) Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT), Germany, (2) Department of Silviculture, Faculty of Forestry, Kasetsart University, Thailand, (3) Department of Ecological Modelling, UFZ – Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany3:35pm: O19-8 A hierarchical framework to assess mangrove restoration outcomes: Insights for future ventures anDrE scarlatE rovai1, pAulo roBerto pAgliosA1, José BonoMi BArufi1, fernAndo scHerner2, MoAcir Aluísio torres1, pAulo Antunes HortA1, roy roBin leWis iii3, eduArdo JuAn soriAno-sierrA1, gilBerto cintrón4, yArA scHAeffer-novelli5, ricArdo pAlAMAr MengHini6, cleMente coelHo-Jr2

(1) Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil, (2) Laboratório de Ficologia, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Brazil, (3) Lewis Environmental Services, Inc, (4) US Fish and Wildlife Service, (5) Instituto Oceanográfico, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, (6) Instituto de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Paulista, Brazil

Theoretical Ecology

4:10pm: O20-1 A method for the analysis of replicated spatial point patterns in ecology roBErt BaGcHi1, JABoury gHAzoul2

(1) Institute for Terrestrial Ecosystems, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, (2) Environment Systems Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland4:25pm: O20-2 Simplicity vs complexity in plant functional types for tropical forest trees martin KaZmiErcZaK and AndreAs HutH, Helmholtz Centre for Environ- mental Research GmbH – UFZ, Germany4:40pm: O20-3 Linking trait similarity to spatial patterns of tree species co-occurrence in a wet tropical forest EDuarDo vEláZquEZ1, tiMotHy pAine2, tHorsten WiegAnd1

(1) Ecological Modelling, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany, (2) Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling, United Kingdom4:55pm: O20-4 Spatial patterns of species interaction and relative importance of a primate disperser for tropical forest diversity WironG cHantHorn1, stepHAn getzin2, tHorsten WiegAnd2, WArren BrocKelMAn3

(1) Environmental Technology and Management, Kasetsart University, Thailand, (2) Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Germany (3) Ecology Laboratory, BIOTEC Central Research Unit, Thailand5:10pm: O20-5 Impact of network concepts and assemblage of species on diversity studies anDrEs torrEs-miranDa1, isoldA lunA-vegA2, Ken oyAMA1,3

(1) Laboratorio de Ecología y Genética Molecular, Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, UNAM, México, (2) Biología Evolutiva, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, México, (3) Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores UNAM Unidad Morelia, México

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5:25pm: O20-6 Conservation in “Fern Gully”: Can epiphytes amplify biodiversity? BrEtt scHEFFErs1,2, dAvid edWArds2, luKe sHoo3, Ben pHillips2, tHeodore evAns1, stepHen WilliAMs2

(1) National University of Singapore, Singapore, (2) James Cook University, Australia, (3) University of Queensland, Australia

Ecology and Behavior of Animals

4:10pm: O21-1 Abundance of Lymanopoda schmidti (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) in an altitudinal and disturbance gradient paola marcEla triviño1, liz AleJAndrA AvilA2, guillAuMe Quenet2, floriAn câtel2, edicson pArrA2, diAnA puentes2, diAnA cruz2

(1) Asociación Colombiana para la Lepidopterología, Colombia, (2)Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia4:25pm: O21-2 Multiple predators influence coloration divergence in a poison-dart frog BEatriZ WillinK1, Adrián gArcíA-rodríguez2, federico BolAños1, HeiKe pröHl3

(1) Escuela de Biología, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica, (2) Museo de Zoología, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica, (3) Institute of Zoology, University of Veterinary Medicine of Hannover, Germany4:40pm: O21-3 Breeding phenology and secondary productivity of an amphibian assemblage in a seasonal wetland of tropical dry forest Costa Rica maHmooD sasa1,2, iván góMez-Mestre3,4

(1) Palo Verde Biological Station, Organization for Tropical Studies, Costa Rica, (2) Instituto Clodomiro Picado, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica, (3) Estación Biológica de Doñana, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain, (4) Instituto Cantábrico de Biodiversidad, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain5:10pm: O21-4 Natural predators of poison frog tadpoles (Oophaga pumilio) differ in aversion to alkaloid-based chemical defenses JEnniFEr l stYnosKi1, georgiA sHelton2, peter stynosKi3,4

(1) Organization for Tropical Studies, Costa Rica, (2) Department of Organis- mic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, (3) Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (4) Materials and Structures Branch, US Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory5:25pm: O21-5 Bimodal air- and substrate-borne acoustic signals: Do red-eyed treefrog calls function through two communication channels? micHaEl s. calDWEll, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama; Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota5:40pm: O21-6 Sex roles in the Fasciated Antshrike (Cymbilaimus lineatus), a tropical passerine with year-round territoriality and pair bonds ioana cHivEr, Biology, York University, Toronto, Canada

Plant-Animal Interactions: Frugivory and Seed Dispersal

4:10pm: O22-1 Ecosystem services in the mariana islands: Implications of bird loss for a wild chili pepper species moniKa EGErEr1, HAldre s. rogers2

(1) Biology, Kalamazoo College, (2) Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, Rice University

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4:25pm: O22-2 The importance of the bare throated bellbird for the diversity of the tree assemblage in rainforests of eastern Paraná State, Brazil BErnarDo clausi, MYRTLAU, Brazil4:40pm: O22-3 Climatic correlates of fruiting seasonality across the neotropics irEnE mEnDoZa1, cArlos A. peres2, pAtriciA c. MorellAto1

(1) Botany, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil, (2) School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom4:55pm: O22-4 Biodiversity maintenance through seed dispersal by lemurs anDrilalao manantsoaniaina raKotonavalona1,2, BAKoliMAlAlA rAKoutH1, pAtriciA cHApple WrigHt2,3, eileen lArney4

(1) Plant Biology and Ecology, University of Antananarivo, Madagascar, (2) Centre ValBio Ranomafana, Madagascar, (3) Anthropology, Stony Brook University, (4) Centre ValBio, Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar5:10pm: O22-5 Dispersal and seed size profile of forests during regrowth in northeastern Costa Rica with emphasis on bat-dispersed species amanDa l. WEnDt1, roBin l. cHAzdon1, orlAndo vArgAs2

(1) Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, (2) La Selva Biological Station, Organization for Tropical Studies, Costa Rica5:25pm: O22-6 Seed dispersal of Swietenia humilis in fragmented vs continuous forest DaviD GrEEnE1, fernAndo rosAs2, MAuricio QuesAdA2

(1) Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University, Canada, (2) Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México

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Geo-Genomics: Integrating Geology and Genetics to Understand the Evolution of Neotropical Biodiversity

moderator: cHristopHEr W. DicK, University of MichiganorganizerS: cHristopHEr W. DicK, University of Michigan / paul a. BaKEr, Duke University / sHEri FritZ, University of Nebraska

8am: S10-1 How do we link biotic history and earth history? An example from Amazonia cAMilA riBAs1, JoEl cracraFt2 (1) INPA, Brazil, (2) Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History8:15am: S10-2 Speciation, gene flow and adaptive differentiation across the tropical temperate divide in the live oaks (Quercus series Virentes) JEanninE cavEnDEr-BarEs, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota8:30am: S10-3 Re-examining the late Cenozoic geological evolution of the lowland Amazon Basin paul a. BaKEr1, sHeri fritz2, cHristopHer W. dicK3

(1) Earth and Ocean Sciences, Duke University, (2) University of Nebraska, (3) Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan8:45am: S10-4 Cenozoic geologic history of the Andes and associated sedimentary basins Brian K. Horton, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin9am: S10-5 Expansion of the Panama canal leads to new insights on the rise of the isthmus anDrEs l. carDEnas1, cArlos JArAMillo2

(1) University of Florida, (2) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama9:15am: S10-6 Climate and refugia: New insights on Quaternary climate variation in tropical South America sHEri FritZ1, pAul A BAKer2, cHristopHer W. dicK3

(1) University of Nebraska, (2) Earth and Ocean Sciences, Duke University, (3) University of Michigan9:30am: S10-7 Predicting phyloendemism from climate: A case study in the Brazilian Atlantic forests ana carnaval1, eric WAltAri1, dAn rosAuer2, JereMy vAn derWAl3, Miguel rodrigues4, crAig Moritz2

(1) City University of New York, (2) Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Australia, (3) James Cook University, Australia, (4) Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil09:45am: S10-8 The role of species and diversity in forest ecosystem function along an Andes-to- Amazon gradient milEs silman1, JosHuA rApp2 (1) Biology, Wake Forest University, (2) Harvard Forest, Biology, Wake Forest University

The Perfect Storm: Educational, Conservation, and Community Synergisms for Tropical Ecology Research in Monteverde, Costa Rica

moderator: nalini m. naDKarni and KimBErlY s. sHElDon, University of Utah organizerS: nalini m. naDKarni and KimBErlY s. sHElDon, University of Utah / sYBil GotscH, Franklin and Marshall College

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8:15am: S11-1 The Monteverde Institute: Fostering education, community development, and research capacity in a tropical montane landscape Fran linDau, Monteverde Institute, Costa Rica8:30am: S11-2 A program in tropical biology and conservation for University of California under graduates in Monteverde: The importance of people and place FranK JoYcE, University of California8:45am: S11-3 Cooperative research of the three-wattled bellbird and reforestation in monteverde, Costa Rica DEBra Hamilton, Monteverde Institute, Costa Rica9am: S11-4 The Monteverde Conservation League as a partner to ecological research in Monteverde, Costa Rica YuBEr roDriGuEZ, Monteverde Conservation League, Costa Rica9:15am: S11-5 Ecotourism as a driving force for education and research in Monteverde mario anDrEs solano, Management, Selvatura Park, Costa Rica9:30am: S11-6 Civic action rooted in Quaker values: What is the right thing to do? KatY van DusEn, Monteverde Friends Meeting, Costa Rica9:45am: discussion

Multiple Successional Pathways in Human-Modified Landscapes: A Multi-Taxonomic Assessment

moderator: miGuEl martinEZ-ramos, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México organizerS: victor arroYo-roDriGuEZ and miGuEl martinEZ-ramos, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México / FElipE p.l. mElo, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

8am: S12-1 Proliferation of native plant species and multiple-scale biotic homogenization in the Atlantic Forest marcElo taBarElli, Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil8:15am: S12-2 Unraveling uncertainty in community reassembly: Modeling successional pathways in neotropical forests natalia norDEn, Ecología y Territorio, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia8:30am: S12-3 Among- and within-patch components of tree species turnover in highly fragmented landscapes: Testing floristic homogenization and differentiation hypotheses victor arroYo-roDriGuEZ1, MAttHiAs rös2, federico escoBAr2, felipe p.l. Melo3, Bráulio A. sAntos4, MArcelo tABArelli3, roBin l. cHAzdon5

(1) Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, (2) Red de Ecoetología, Instituto de Ecología AC, México, (3) Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil, (4) Universidade Federal da Paraiba, Brazil, (5) University of Connecticut8:45am: S12-4 Insect responses to human disturbance: A consistent pattern of specialist-generalist replacement inara lEal1, Bruno KArol filgueirAs2, José doMingos riBeiro neto2, fernAndA MAriA pereirA de oliveirA2, AlAn neil Andersen3

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(1) Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil, (2 Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil, (3) Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Australia9am: S12-5 Ecological processes driving alternative successional pathways in human-modified tropical landscapes: The importance of seed dispersal and seedling recruitment FElipE p.l. mElo1, victor Arroyo-rodriguez2, lenore fAHrig3, Miguel MArtinez-rAMos2, MArcelo tABArelli1

(1) Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil, (2) Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico, (3) Carleton University, Canada9:15am: S12-6 Outburst growth of a long-lived palm species and its community consequences in a rainforest fragment miGuEl martinEZ-ramos1, iván ortiz-rodríguez1, Jose sAruKHAn2

(1) Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, (2) Instituto de Ecologia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México9:30am: S12-7 Do dominant species determine succession in wet and dry tropical forests? Frans BonGErs1, Miguel MArtinez-rAMos2, MicHiel vAn Breugel3, edWin leBriJA-treJos4, MAdelon loHBecK1, isABel eunice roMero- pérez5, eduArdo A. perez-gArciA5, Jorge rodriQuez-velAzQuez2, Jorge A. MeAve5

(1) Forest Ecology and Forest Management group, Wageningen University, Netherlands, (2) Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, (3) STRI, Panama, (4) Forest Ecology Lab, University of Minnesota, (5) Ecología y Recursos Naturales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México9:45am: S12-8 Phylogenetic diversity of tree communities in fragmented landscapes of Brazil and México Bráulio a. santos1, MArcelo tABArelli2, felipe p.l. Melo2, victor Arroyo-rodríguez3, José l.c. cAMArgo4, susAn g.W. lAurAnce5, WilliAM f. lAurAnce5

(1) Universidade Federal da Paraiba, Brazil, (2) Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil, (3) Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, (4) Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragment Project, National Institute for Amazonian Research, Brazil, (5) James Cook University, Australia

Evolutionary Perspectives On Tropical Trees: Linking Historical Biogeography, Adaptation and Conservation Genetics

moderator & organizer: JEanninE cavEnDEr-BarEs, University of Minnesota

10:20am: S13-1 Tropical forest niche structure reflects the great American biotic interchange at fine spatial scales Brian E. sEDio1, JoHn r. pAul2, cHArlotte M. tAylor3, cHristopHer W. dicK1

(1) Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, (2) Biology, Colorado State University, (3) Missouri Botanical Garden

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10:35am: S13-2 Dissecting the role of the Andean region as a biogeographic filter for neotropical rain forests cHristopHEr W. DicK1, JordAn BeMMels1, álvAro JAvier pérez cAstAñedA2, renAto vAlenciA2

(1) Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, (2) Biology, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Ecuador10:50am: S13-3 Divergence across an edaphic gradient drives ecological speciation in the Amazonian tree Protium subserratum (Burseraceae) tracY m. misiEWicZ and pAul vA fine, Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley11:05am: S13-4 Biogeography, phylogeography and conservation of genus Quercus in mesoamerica antonio GonZalEZ-roDriGuEZ1, HernAndo Alonso rodríguez- correA1, Andres torres-MirAndA1, isoldA lunA-vegA2, Ken oyAMA1

(1) Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, (2) Biología Evolutiva, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, México11:20am: S13-5 Historical biogeography of tropical African trees during the Pleistocene oliviEr J. HarDY, Evolutionary Biology & Ecology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium11:35am: S13-6 Figs, fig wasps and fruit-eating bats: Population genetic study of gene flow in and among neotropical fig species (Ficus sp Moraceae) Katrin HEEr1,2, elisABetH K.v. KAlKo1,3, edWArd Allen Herre3, cArlos A. MAcHAdo4, cHristopHer W. dicK5 (1) Institute of Experimental Ecology, University of Ulm, Germany, (2) Conservation Biology, University of Marburg, Germany, (3) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, (4) University of Maryland, (5) Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan11:50am: S13-7 Pollinator-mediated speciation and hybridization in fig trees GEorGE D. WEiBlEn1, AnniKA M. Moe2

(1) Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, (2) College of Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota

Field-Based Learning for Tropical Biologists of the 21st Century

moderator: JEnniFEr l. stYnosKi, Organization for Tropical Studies) organizerS: GEorGE miDDEnDorF, Howard University / JEnniFEr l. stYnosKi and EDWarD stasHKo, Organization for Tropical Studies

10:20am: S14-1 A short history of field-based education EDWarD stasHKo1, george Middendorf2 (1) Organization for Tropical Studies, (2) Biology, Howard University10:35am: S14-2 Applying what we’ve learned about active learning in the classroom to the field DianE EBErt-maY, Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University10:50am: S14-3 Field-based training in tropical Asia: tailoring programs for students from lower- income countries rHEtt Harrison, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, China11:05am: S14-4 Impacts of field-based learning on students from diverse backgrounds DEEDra mcclEarn1, erin K. KupreWicz1,2, cArol BreWer3, diAne eBert-MAy4

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(1) Organization for Tropical Studies, Costa Rica, (2) Dept of Biology, University of Miami, (3) Prairie Ecotone Research Group, (4) Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University11:20am: S14-5 Strengthening local capacity for field based learning and biodiversity conservation oriented research in Colombia’s Andean Amazon JaviEr a. malDonaDo-ocampo1, elizABetH p. Anderson2, JuAn ricArdo goMez1, MArlon pelAez-rodriguez3

(1) Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia, (2) Earth and Environment, Florida International University, (3) Universidad de la Amazonia, Colombia11:35am: S14-6 Pursuing use-inspired research through participatory community agenda setting roBin r. sEars and Moni cArlisle, School for Field Studies11:50am: S14-7 Synthesizing coursework, local engagement and structured reflection for maximum development and impact in field-based learning truEtt catEs, Austin College

Modeling Coupled Natural-Human Systems In The Tropics

moderator: marlEnE soriano, Wageningen University and Instituto Boliviano de Investi-gación ForestalorganizerS: trEvor cauGHlin, University of Florida / marlEnE soriano, Wageningen University and Instituto Boliviano de Investigación Forestal

1:50pm: introductory remarks 1:55pm: S15-1 Agroecology and forest conversion in the tropics JoHn vanDErmEEr, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan2:10pm: S15-2 Modeling water and carbon ecosystem services using dynamic vegetation models in México patricia BalvanEra1, sAndrA QuiJAs1, Alice Boit2, Kirsten tHonicKe2, eleAnor BlytH3, lAurence Jones3, Miguel eQuiHuA4, HelenA cotler5, peter gerritsen6, victor JArAMillo1, MelAnie KolB7, elenA lAzos8, MAnuel MAAss1, guillerMo MurrAy-tortArolo1,9, tuyeni MWAMpAMBA1, octAvio pérez-MAQueo4, lourens poorter10, MArgAret sKutcH11, eric Arets12, MArielos peñA-clAros10, leon BrAAt12, MArtHA perez-soBA12, consuelo vArelA13

(1) Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, (2) Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany, (3) Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, United Kingdom, (4) Instituto de Ecología, AC, México, (5) Instituto Nacional de Ecología y Cambio Climático, México, (6) Centro Universitario de la Costa, Universidad de Guadalajara, México, (7) Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad, México, (8) Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, (9) University of Exeter, United Kingdom, (10) Forest Ecology and Management Group, Wageningen University, Netherlands, (11) Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, (12) Alterra, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Netherlands, (13) Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain2:25pm: S15-3 Interactive dynamics of wildlife populations, human health and household wealth mattHEW potts, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California-Berkeley

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2:40pm: S15-4 The Serengeti coupled human-natural system: Socio-ecological feedbacks, dynamics, and resilience roBErt D Holt1, ricArdo M. Holdo2

(1) Biology, University of Florida, (2) Biological Sciences, University of Missouri2:55pm: S15-5 Transience and the impact of stochastic harvest of non-timber forest products by local people orou GaouE, National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS)3:10pm: S15-6 Modeling human and natural drivers of fire dynamics in the peruvian Amazon naomi scHWartZ1, MAriA uriArte1, Miguel pinedo-vAsQuez2, rutH s. defries1, KAtiA fernAndes4, victor gutierrez1, WAlter BAetHgen3, cHristine pAdocH4

(1) Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, (2) Center for Environmental Research and Conservation, Columbia University, (3) International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, (4) Center for International Forestry Research, Indonesia3:25pm: discussion

Changing Water and Nutrient Regimes in the Rainforest Canopy: The Impact On the Resident Epiphytes

moderator: carriE l. WooDs, Clemson University organizerS: catHErinE carDElus, Colgate University/carriE l. WooDs, Clemson University

1:50pm: S16-1 The diversity of epiphytic species on isolated trees is influenced by local, spatial and historical factors KristoFFEr HYlanDEr1, silesHi neMoMissA2

(1) Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, Sweden, (2) Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia2:05pm: S16-2 Correlations between functional traits, environmental gradients, and distributional patterns of vascular epiphytes in Costa Rica carriE l. WooDs, Clemson University2:20pm: S16-3 Epiphytes improve host plant water use by microenvironment modification DaniEl E stanton1,2, JAcKelyn HuAllpA cHAvez3, lArs o. Hedin2, Henry s. Horn2

(1) Research School of Biology-Plant Sciences Division, Australian National University, Australia, (2) Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, (3) Ecología, Universidad National San Agustin de Arequipa, Peru2:35pm: S16-4 Nutrient uptake in epiphytes GErHarD ZotZ, Biology Department, Universität Oldenburg, Germany2:50pm: S16-5 Effect of changing nutrient deposition on tropical canopies pEtEr HiEtZ, Botany, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Austria3:05pm: S16-6 Soup kitchen or gourmet spread? Experimental approaches to understand within-canopy nutrient dynamics of a tropical montane forest in Monteverde, Costa Rica nalini m. naDKarni, Biology, University of Utah3:20pm: S16-7 Impacts of increased nutrient deposition on epiphyte nutrient status and community structure

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(1) Department of Biology, Colgate University, (2) Dept. of Biological Sciences, Clemson University

Floristics, Ecology and Evolution of Vegetation in Oligotrophic White-Sand and Sandstone Habitats in the Neotropics

moderator: mErcEDEs asanZa, Universidad Estatal Amazónica organizerS: DaviD a. nEill, Universidad Estatal Amazónica / paul va FinE, University of California, Berkeley

1:50pm: S17-1 Community assembly of the Amazonian white-sand flora: The relative importance of dispersal, functional traits, and biotic interactions paul va FinE1, cHristopHer BArAloto2, clAire fortunel2, trAcy MisieWicz1, greg lAMArre3

(1) Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, (2) INRA, UMR EcoFoG, French Guiana (3) Department of Community Ecology, UMR Ecofog, French Guiana2:10pm: S17-2 Remote sensing of white-sand ecosystems in the Amazon basin JEnniFEr marion aDEnEY1, MArio coHn-HAft2, norMAn l. cHristensen3

(1) USAID, (2) Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Brazil, (3) Duke University2:30pm: S17-3 Soils as determinants of specialization: Seedling mortality, herbivory, leaf dynamics and growth of rainforest seedling species from white sand and terra-firme forests maria cristina pEñuEla mora1,2, JuAn dAvid turriAgo2, rene Boot3,4 HAns ter steege3,5

(1) Amazonas, Universidad Nacional De Colombia - Sede Amazonia, Colombia, (2) Grupo de Ecologia de Ecosistemas Terrestres Tropicales, Colombia, (3) Ecology and Biodiversity Group, Utrecht University, Netherlands, (4) Tropenbos Interna- tional, Netherlands, (5) Botany, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Netherlands2:50pm: S17-4 Comparing tree communities of white-sand and terra-firme forests across Amazonian regions Hans tEr stEEGE1,2, JuliAnA stropp1, iedA AMArAl3, gerArdo AyMArd4, cArolinA cAstilHo5, cid ferreirA3, terry HenKel6, dAiron cArdenAs lopez7, WilliAM ernest MAgnusson3, frAnciscA AlMeidA MAtos3, WilliAM MilliKen8, AtilA oliveirA3, dAnielA pAuletto9, oliver l. pHillips10, rAQuel tHoMAs11

(1) Ecology and Biodiversity Group, Utrecht University, Netherlands, (2) Naturalis, Netherlands, (3) Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Brazil, (4) Herbario Universitario PORT, UNELLEZ, Venezuela, (5) EMBRAPA CPAFRR, BRAZIL, (6) Department of Biological Sciences, Humboldt State University, (7) Sinchi, Colombia, (8) Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom, (9) Serviço Florestal Brasileiro, Santarem, Brazil, (10) School of Geography, University of Leeds, United Kingdom, (11) Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation and Development, Guyana

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3:10 pm: S17-5 Phylogenetic patterns of tree stature and habitat specialization across lowland amazonian forests cHristopHEr Baraloto1,2, pAul vA fine3, nAllArett dAvilA4, MArcos rios5, Julien engel1,6, elvis vAlderrAMA7, HAns ter steege8, nigel pitMAn9, dAniel sABAtier10, MeMBers of Atdn netWorK11

(1) UMR EcoFoG, French Guiana, (2) INRA, French Guiana, (3) Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, (4) UNICAMP, Brazil, (5) UNAP, Peru, (6) CNRS, French Guiana, (7) UMSL, (8) Botany, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Netherlands, (9) Duke University, (10) IRD, UMR AMAP, France, (11) Various affiliations, Netherlands3:30pm: S17-7 Vegetation and floristics of fragmented sandstone plateaus in the Cordillera del Cóndor, Ecuador DaviD a nEill1, Mercedes AsAnzA1, eduArdo cuevA2, Wilson QuizHpe3, cAMilo KAJeKAi4

(1) Universidad Estatal Amazónica, Ecuador, (2) Naturaleza y Cultura Internacional, Ecuador, (3) Universidad Nacional de Loja, Ecuador, (4) Federación Interprovincial de Centros Shuar, Ecuador3:50pm: Break 4:10pm: S17-8 Reproductive phenology of endemic and sandstone-restricted tree species on the western slopes of the Cordillera del Cóndor, Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador nElson isaias miranDa1, gildA gAllArdo2

(1) Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador, (2) Ambiente, Kinross-Aurelian Gold Corporation, Ecuador4:30pm: S17-9 Vegetation and flora of the Campos Rupestres in Extra-Amazonian Brazil ruY J.v. alvEs1, nílBer gonçAlves dA silvA2, déBorA Medeiros1, João Alves de oliveirA3

(1) Botany, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, (2) Botânica, Museu Nacional, Brazil, (3) Vertebrados, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil4:50pm: S17-10 White-sand areas as ancestral habitats in Amazonia: Evidence from phylogenetics of tropical gentians lEna struWE1, KAte B. lepis2, M. fernAndA cAlió3

(1) Ecology, Evolution, & Natural Resources, Rutgers University, (2) Biology, Monmouth University, (3) Botany, University of São Paulo, Brazil5:10pm: S17-11 Diversification in white-sand vegetation in tropical South America–The case of Pagamea (Rubiaceae) alBErto vicEntini, CDAm, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Brazil

Heterogeneity in Tropical Agroecological Landscapes and Its Influence of Ecosystem Services–Part 2

moderator and organizer: KristoFFEr HYlanDEr, Stockholm University

4:10pm: introductory remarks 4:15pm: S18-1 Insect-plant interactions in heterogeneous agricultural landscapes pEtEr a. HamBäcK, Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, Sweden4:30pm: S18-2 Interactive effects among ecosystem services and management practices on crop production: Pollination in coffee agroforestry systems

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JaBourY GHaZoul, Dept. of Environment Systems Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland4:45pm: S18-3 Pollinators of coffee in Ethiopia, Coffea arabica’s native range ulriKa samnEGårD, Stockholm University, Sweden5pm: S18-4 Functional responses of bee communities to local management and landscape structure in pigeon pea cropping system in Kenya marK otiEno, University of Reading, United Kingdom5:15pm: S18-5 Hunting and bushmeat consumption in post-frontier landscapes in eastern Amazonia: The importance of large-scale environmental driver patricia torrEs1, cArlA Morsello2, luKe pArry3, toBy AlAn gArdner4, Jos BArloW3, Joice ferreirA5, renAtA pArdini6

(1) Department of Ecology, University of São Paulo, Brazil, (2) EACH, University of São Paulo, Brazil, (3) Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, United Kingdom, (4) Cambridge University, United Kingdom, (5) Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, Brazil, (6) Zoology, University of São Paulo, Brazil5:30pm: discussion

Bats and Hummingbirds As Pollinators: From Ecological Differences to Evolutionary Consequences

moderator: silvana BuZato, Universidade de São Paulo organizerS: silvana BuZato, Universidade de São Paulo / natHan mucHHala, University of Nebraska / luciano E. lopEs, Universidade Federal de São Carlos

4:10pm: introductory remarks 4:15pm: S19-1 The role played by cognition in hummingbird pollination susan D. HEalY1, t. AndreW Hurly2

(1) School of Biology, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom, (2) Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lethbridge, Canada4:30pm: S19-2 Fur versus feathers: Pollen delivery by bats and hummingbirds and their consequences for floral evolution natHan mucHHala1, JAMes d. tHoMson2

(1) School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, (2) University of Toronto, Canada4:45pm: S19-3 Does variation in seed production from vertebrate pollinators affect the population dynamics of a tropical tree? luciano E. lopEs1, c. JessicA e. MetcAlf2, cArol c. Horvitz3, silvAnA BuzAto4

(1) Departamento de Ciencias Ambientais, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil, (2) Department of Zoology, Oxford University, United Kingdom, (3) Department of Biology, University of Miami, (4) Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil5pm: S19-4 What is the role of different pollinators in promoting gene flow among populations of hybridizing bromeliads adapted to neotropical inselbergs? clarissE palma-silva, Ecology, UNESP-Rio Claro, Brazil5:15pm: S19-5 Birds, bats, and plants: Historical contingencies in the evolution of vertebrate pollination tHEoDorE H. FlEminG, Biology, University of Miami5:30pm: discussion

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Conservation Biology–Human Impacts On Animal Communities

5:40pm: P2a-1 Variable density responses of primate communities to hunting pressure in a western Amazonian river basin coopEr rosin and vArun sWAMy, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University P2a-2 The effectiveness of the probuc program for analyzing hunting pressure in the Uacari Sustainable Use Reserve, Amazonas, Brazil KlEBson DEmElas maurício1, glenn sHepArd HAvArd Jr2, cArlos eduArdo MArinelli3

(1) Instituto Nacional de Pesquisa da Amazônia, Brazil, (2) Antropologia, Museu Emilio Goeldi, Brazil, (3) Ecologia, Universidade de Brasília, Brazil P2a-3 Land conflicts in the state park south of Rio Negro sector EliZaBEtHE FErrEira cunHa1, ritA MesQuitA1, rogério fonsecA2

(1) Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Brazil, (2) UFAM, Brazil P2a-4 Distribution of a community of mammals in relation to roads and other human disturbances in Gabon (central Africa) HAdrien vAntHoMMe, JosepH M. KoloWsKi, lisA Korte and alFonso alonso, Center for Conservation Education and Sustainability, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute P2a-5 Activity budgets of white-faced capuchin monkeys in Costa Rica: The influence of age and sex, ecology and human presence Gina l. DEppEr, Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management, Clemson University

Invasive Species

5:40pm: P2b-1 Understory above ground factors mediate the suppression of an invasive grass in tropical reforestation Justin cumminGs, ingrid pArKer and gregory s. gilBert,University of California Santa Cruz P2b-2 Susceptibility to invasion by a clonal invasive species in a coastal ecosystem cristiana BarBosa1, tâniA tArABini cAstelAni1, MicHele de sá decHouM2

(1) Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil, (2) Instituto Horus de Desenvolvimento e Conservação Ambiental, Brazil P2b-3 Measures of functional diversity across an invasion gradient in Hawaiian lowland wet forests laura Warman1, reBeccA ostertAg2 and susAn cordell3

(1) Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry, USDA Forest Service, (2) Department of Biology, University Hawaii at Hilo, (3) USDA Forest Service P2b-4 Documenting invasive flora and fauna in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar summEr J. arriGo-nElson1, MArk C. TeBBiTT1, kAiTlin e. enCk1, dAvid drescHer1, BriAn d. gerBer2

(1) Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, California University of Pennsylvania, (2) Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University P2b-5 Influence of shade tolerant invasive shrub, Ardisia crenata on oak seedling regeneration in mesic forest in Florida GErarDo cElis1, KAoru KitAJiMA2

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(1) School of Natural Resources & Environment, University of Florida, (2) Biology, University of Florida

Evolutionary Biology

5:40pm: P2c-1 Affinities of the Magdalena Valley flora: Understanding the effects of Andean uplift on neotropical plant distribution ana m. alDana, frAncisco HenAo-diAz and pABlo r. stevenson, Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia P2c-2 Pollen source vs flower type effect on progeny performance and seed predation in a cleistogamous herb miGuEl anGEl munGuía-rosas1, MAríA José cAMpos-nAvArrete2, víctor prospero pArrA-tABlA2

(1) Ecología Humana, CINVESTAV, México, (2) Ecología Tropical, UADY, México P2c-3 Mating success and energetic condition effects driven by terminal investment in a short-lived insect DaniEl m GonZálEZ-toKman and AleJAndro córdoBA-AguilAr, Ecología Evolutiva, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México P2c-4 When red is missing: Survival and physiological costs of lacking a fighting ability signal in a damselfly isaac GonZálEZ santoYo, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México P2c-5 Patterns and processes in complex landscapes: Testing alternative biogeographic hypotheses through integrated analysis of phylogeography and community ecology in Hawaii JonAtHAn eldon1,2, JonAtHAn price1, KArl MAgnAccA1, DonalD pricE1

(1) University of Hawaii at Hilo, (2) Environmental Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz P2c-6 Relative fitness of selfing plants in variable pollination environments JuDY stonE, eMily vAnWyK and Jennifer HAle, Biology, Colby College P2c-7 Biogeography and evolution of Bignonia L (Bignonieae, Bignoniaceae) alEXanDrE riZZo Zuntini and luciA g. loHMAnn, Botany, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil P2c-8 Local adaptation of a tropical herbaceous in a fragmented rain forest pilar suárEZ montEs and JuAn núñez-fArfán, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), México P2c-9 Spatial diversification of Sinningia allagophylla (Gesneriaceae): Variation of floral traits and the importance of pollinators JoicE iamara-noGuEira1, AlAin cHAuteMs2, silvAnA BuzAto1

(1) Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, (2) Conservatoire & Jardin botaniques, Geneva, Switzerland P2c-10 Species boundaries within stink bugs: The Obstinata group, genus Chinavia (Insecta, Hemiptera, Pentatomidae) Bruno cElso GEnEvcius and cristiAno feldens scHWertner, Departament of Biological Sciences, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil P2c-11 The adaptative accuracy of pollination in two species of Ipomoea EuGEnia sEntiEs-aGuilar1, MAuricio QuesAdA1, silvAnA MArten- rodriguez2

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(1) Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, (2) Instituto de Ecologia, AC, México P2c-12 Phylogeography and conservation of Bombus morio (Hymenoptera: Apidae) ElainE Françoso and MAriA cristinA AriAs, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Community Phylogenetics

5:40pm: P2d-1 Community and phylogenetic structure of tree species in a cloud Araucaria forest fragment in southern Brazil pEDro HiGucHi1, AnA cArolinA dA silvA1, MArcos eduArdo guerrA soBrAl2, MArcelo negrini1, fernAndo Buzzi-Junior1, MArco Antonio Bento1, André leonArdo dA silvA1, AMAndA KocHe MArcon1, tiAgo de souzA ferreirA1, BrunA sAlAMi1

(1) Forestry, Santa Catarina State University, Brazil, (2) Ciências Naturais, UFSJ, Brazil P2d-3 Phylogenetic structure and ecological filtering of climbing functional groups in a Brazilian subtropical forest JaquElinE DuriGon1, rodrigo s. rios2, sílviA t.s. Miotto1

(1) Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, (2) Departamendo de Biología, Universidad de La Serena, Chile P2d-4 Neotropical forest succession: Structural, functional and phylogenetic composition of secondary forests in the San Juan-La Selva Biological Corridor, Costa Rica ricarDo J. santiaGo-García1,2, BryAn finegAn1, stepHen s. MulKey2,3, nilsA A. BosQue pérez2

(1) Producción y Conservación en Bosques, Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza, Costa Rica, (2) Environmental Science, University of Idaho, (3) Unity College

Arthropod Ecology and Behavior

5:40pm: P2e-1 Interaction between ants and non-myrmecochorous fleshy fruits in the brazilian Atlantic forest: A comparison between continuous and fragmented forests ana GaBriEla DElGaDo BiEBEr1, pAulo sávio dAMásio dA silvA2, fernAndo fernández3, pAulo sergio oliveirA1

(1) Biologia Animal, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil, (2) Departamento de Estudos Básicos e Instrumentais, Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia, Brazil, (3) Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia P2e-2 Swimming behavior in tropical ants Dana n. FrEDEricK1, steve yAnoviAK2

(1) Biology, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, (2) Biology, University of Louisville P2e-3 Ants moderate its investment in forage in response to quantity and availability of food resource FaBíola KEEsEn1, giselle MArtins lourenço1, roBertH fAgundes2, sérvio pontes riBeiro1, everAldo ArAsHiro1

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(1) Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto - UFOP, Brazil, (2) Programa de Pós Graduação em Ecologia e Conservação de Recursos Naturais, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Brazil P2e-4 Sex roles in foraging comparison between Nymphalidae species in a seasonally dry tropical forest in central México GréGorY micHaël cHarrE1, MArcelA osorio-BeristAin2, luc legAl3, néstor MAriAno Bonigo2

(1) Ecología Animal, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, UAEM, México, (2) Ecología Evolutiva, Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Conservación UAEM, México, (3) ECOLAB, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse 3, France P2e-5 Leaf-cutting ants alter seedling assemblages across second-growth stands of Brazilian Atlantic forest paulo sávio Damásio Da silva1, inArA leAl2, rAiner WirtH3, felipe p.l. Melo2, MArcelo tABArelli2

(1) Departamento de Estudos Básicos e Instrumentais, Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia, Brazil, (2) Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil, (3) Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany P2e-6 Nutrient preferences differ among neotropical butterflies of different sexes and feeding guilds alison ravEnscraFt and cArol Boggs, Stanford University P2e-7 The benefit of being a social butterfly: communal roosting deters predation susan D. FinKBEinEr, AdriAnA Briscoe and roBert d. reed, University of California, Irvine P2e-8 Azteca-Cecropia interaction: Ant’s presence could influence the production of Müllerian bodies in cecropia glaziovii sneth? Karla nunEs olivEira1, rodrigo silvA Jesus1, AyHAMA Boniolo1, frAncisKo de MorAes rezende1, ricArdo ildefonso cAMpos1, MArio MArcos espírito-sAnto2

(1) Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil, (2) Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros, Brazil

Plant-Herbivore Interactions

5:40pm: P2f-1 The role of age and gender in the architecture of howler monkeys-plant networks in Lacandonian rainforest AnA p. MArtínez-fAlcón1, ana m. GonZálEZ-Di piErro2, rAfAel loMBerA- estrAdA3, JulietA Benitez MAlvido1

(1) Universidad Autónoma Nacional de México, México, (2) Universidad Intercul- tural de Chiapas, México, (3) Marqués de Comillas, México P2f-2 Vegetation structure determines the diversity of insect herbivores associated to the canopy of tropical dry forests cAMilA r.o. leAl1, leAndro sousA-souto2, FrEDErico siquEira nEvEs1

(1) Biologia Geral, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil, (2) Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Brazil P2f-3 Florivory on the floral buds and its effect on floral display in Chamaecrista chamaecristoides in a Mexican dune system DulcE roDríGuEZ-moralEs, ArMAndo Aguirre-JAiMes and José g. gArcíA-frAnco, Red de Interacciones Multitróficas, Instituto de Ecología AC, México

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P2f-4 Plant-animal antagonistic interactions in fragmented habitats: A meta-analysis mariana cHávEZ-pEsquEira1, pilAr suárez Montes2, JuAn núñez- fArfán1, rAMiro AguilAr2

(1) Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, (2) CONICET, Universi- dad Nacioal de Córdoba, Argentina P2f-5 Canopy herbivory and succession in a Brazilian tropical dry forest milton BarBosa Jr1, frederico siQueirA neves2, g. Wilson fernAndes2, pABlo cuevAs-reyes3, André Quintino2, Arturo sAncHez-AzofeifA4

(1) Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Brazil, (2) Departamento de Biologia Geral, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil, (3) Facultad de Biología, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, México, (4) Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department, University of Alberta, Canada P2f-6 Plant-seed predator interactions in a species-rich tropical plant community soFia GripEnBErG1, indirA siMón2, d. cAtAlinA fernAndez2, osvAldo cAlderón2, yves BAsset2, oWen leWis3, s. JosepH WrigHt2

(1) University of Turku, Finland, (2) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, (3) Oxford University, England P2f-7 Sap-sucking herbivore species distribution along a pertubation gradient of tropical montane forest: Upper canopy fauna GisEllE martins lourEnço1, núBiA riBeiro cAMpos1, BárBArA cArvAlHo BArBosA2, cArlos Augusto corrêA1, frederico siQueirA neves2, renAtA BernArdes fAriA cAMpos1, sérvio pontes riBeiro1

(1) Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto - UFOP, Brazil, (2) Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - UFMG, Brazil

Community Ecology 2

5:40pm: P2g-1 Recovery of species diversity and reproductive trait diversity along a successional chronosequence mannEttE sanDor and roBin l. cHAzdon, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut P2g-2 Recovery of macroinvertebrate communities and their influence on litter decomposition during tropical forest succession rEBEcca J. colE, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado at Boulder P2g-3 Plant functional diversity of dry tropical forests on serpentine and volcanic soils of Santa Elena Peninsula, Costa Rica catHErinE HulsHoF and susAn HArrison, Environmental Science and Policy, University of California - Davis P2g-4 Are environmental variables sound predictors of plant species richness at a regional scale? lauro lopEZ-mata1, Jose luis villAseñor2, gustAvo cruz-cArdenAs3, enriQue ortiz2, cArlos ortiz-solorio3

(1) Botanica, Colegio de Postgraduados, México, (2) Instituto de Biologia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, (3) Edafologia, Colegio de Postgraduados, México

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P2g-5 The effects of topography on gap distribution in a tropical moist forest, Brazil cora J. caron1, MArcos A.s. scArAnello1, flAvio Antonio MAes dos sAntos1, luciAnA f. Alves2

(1) Plant Biology, UNICAMP, Brazil, (2) NPD Jardim Botânico, IAC, Brazil P2g-6 Population structure of two old growth forest dioecious trees in southwestern, Costa Rica paBlo riBa1,2,3, Jorge Arturo loBo2, JuAn MoreirA-HernAndez1,2, eric fucHs2

(1) Proyecto Carey, Costa Rica, (2) Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica, (3) Institute for Tropical Field Studies, Costa Rica P2g-7 Biomass estimation and spatial distribution analysis of epiphytes on emergent and canopy trees using three-dimensional mapping technique in a tropical montane forest, northern Thailand aKira naKanisHi1, WitcHApHArt sungpAlee2, KriAngsAK sri-ngernyuAng2, MAMoru KAnzAKi1

(1) Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Japan, (2) Maejo University, Thailand P2g-8 Measuring the effects of hurricanes on tropical forest dynamics in Puerto Rico cHristopHer J. nytcH1, Jess K. ziMMerMAn1, Jill tHoMpson2, MAriA uriArte3, JamEs aaron HoGan1

(1) Environmental Sciences, University of Puerto Rico - Río Piedras, (2) Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Edinburgh, Scotland, (3) Ecology, Evolution, Environmental Biology, Columbia University P2g-9 Description, modeling and prediction of tropical dry forest secondary succession with a five-year resolution isaBEl EunicE romEro pérEZ1, Jorge A. MeAve1, edWin leBriJA-treJos2, eduArdo AlBerto pérez-gArcíA1, frAns Bongers3

(1) Ecología y Recursos Naturales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, (2) Forest Ecology Lab, University of Minnesota, (3) Forest Ecology and Forest Management group, Wageningen University, Netherlands P2g-10 A keystone resource found in the branches of a dry forest tree stEvEn alEXanDEr sloan, Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico P2g-11 Ecosystemic analysis for three forest covers of the mid-elevation mountains of Río Macho in central Costa Rica oscar ramírEZ-alán, roBerto A. cordero s. and tAniA BerMúdez roJAs Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, Costa Rica

Biogeography

5:40pm: P2h-1 Seed bank dynamic model for alien plant spread: An approach using based cellular automata model iArA leMos nAsciMento rosso1, larissa paulo silva1, AllBens picArdi fAriA AtMAn2, AndréA rodrigues MArQues guiMArães1

(1) Departamento de Ciência e Tecnologia Ambiental, CEFET-MG, Brazil, (2) Departamento de Física e Matemática, CEFET-MG, Brazil P2h-2 Passiflora subgenus Decaloba (DC) Rchb (Passifloraceae) in Brazil: Patterns of geographic distribution micHaElE alvim milWarD-DE-aZEvEDo1, José fernAndo AndrAde BAuMgrAtz2

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(1) Ciências Administrativas e do Ambiente, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro/Instituto Três Rios, Brazil, (2) Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil P2h-3 Biogeographic structure of Cattleya liliputana (Orchidaceae): Implications for evolution and conservation of outcrop vegetation of the Iron Quadrangle, Brazil Bruno lElEs, ludMilA HufnAgel, pHillip russo, MAriA BernArdete lovAto, João A.n. BAtistA Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

Mangrove Ecosystem Ecology and Conservation

5:40pm: P2i-1 Site fidelity and homing behavior of Anableps anableps in a North Brazilian mangrove revealed by radio-frequency identification and visual censuses marianna auDFroiD, Fisheries Biology, Center for Marine Tropical Ecology, Germany P2i-2 Carbon sequestration services in mangrove forests managed by local communities for conservation and selective wood extraction on Mexico’s Pacific coast paola FaJarDo, Geography, McGill University, Canada P2i-3 The role of mangrove and algae derived carbon in the diet of fish in an arid environment (Persian Gulf ) marYam sHaHraKi1, tiM riXen1, uWe KruMMe2, ulricH sAint pAul1

(1) Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT), Germany (2) Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries (TI-OF), Germany P2i-4 Destruction and regeneration dynamics within the mangrove forests on the Bay Island of Guanaja (Honduras) initiated by Hurricane Mitch (October 1998) tHomas FicKErt, Phyical Geography, University of Passau, Germany P2i-5 Landscape effect on population structure (genetic and phenotypic), in an endemic mangrove warbler subspecies (Setophaga petechia xanthotera) in Costa Rica tania cHavarria piZarro, Biology, University of Florida P2i-6 Mapping mangrove species composition with rapideye satellites images: How far can we go? ruBén E. vEnEGas li1, luciA MorAles BArQuero2, dAMiAn MArtinez fernAndez3

(1) Fundacion Keto, Costa Rica, (2) Universität Göttingen, Germany, (3) PNUDSINAC-GEF, Consolidación de Áreas Marinas Protegidas, Costa Rica

Education & Outreach

5:40pm: P2j-1 Growing up with a tropical field station: La Selva, Costa Rica stEvEn oBErBauEr1, victor cHAvArriA2

(1) Biological Sciences, Florida International University, (2) Puerto Viejo de Sarapiqui, Costa Rica P2j-2 Ecology students investigate the vulnerability of tropical live oaks to drought in Guanacaste Costa Rica marilEtH DE los anGElEs lEiton BricEño1, JeAnnine cAvender-BAres2

(1) Dirección de Asuntos estudiantiles, Universidad Estatal a Distancia, Costa Rica, (2) Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota P2j-3 The OTS and marine science in Costa Rica JorGE cortés, Centro de Investigación en Ciencias del Mar y Limnología (CIMAR), Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica

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Functional Traits of Plants

8am: O23-1 Intraspecific variability in leaf functional traits is associated with the ecological breadth of tropical trees Dori l. contrEras1, vAnessA BouKili2, roBin l. cHAzdon2

(1) Integrative Biology, University of California-Berkeley, (2) Ecology & Evolu- tionary Biology, University of Connecticut8:15am: O23-2 Do community functional properties predict biomass and productivity of tropical forests? lourEns poortEr1,2, MArielos penA clAros1,2, AleXAndre de oliveirA3, Alfredo AlArcon1, geovAnA cArreno-rocABAdo1,2, fernAndo cAsAnoves4, ledA lorenzo3, BeAtriz sAlgAdo-negret4, fernAndo fernández5, MArcel vAz3, BryAn finegAn4

(1) Instituto Boliviano de Investigación Forestal (IBIF), Bolivia, (2) Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University, Netherlands, (3) Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, (4) CATIE, Costa Rica, (5) Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia8:30am: O23-3 Rarity and functional diversity: Do rare tree species occupy the periphery of trait space? maria natalia umaña and nAtHAn g. sWenson, Michigan State University8:45am: O23-4 Differences in leaf functional traits between evergreen and deciduous trees in an Asian tropical dry karst forest pEili Fu1, JiAo-lin zHAng1, yAnJuAn JiAng1, sHidAn zHu2, KunfAng cAo1 (1) Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, (2) South China Botanical Garden (CAS), China9am: O23-5 Multiple effects of functional trait variation on successional forest dynamics JEssE r. lasKY1, MAriA uriArte1, vAnessA BouKili2, roBin l. cHAzdon2

(1) Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, (2) Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut9:15am: O23-6 Associations of functional traits with growth and mortality across 43 co-occurring tree species in a Taiwanese subtropical rainforest YosHiKo iiDa1,2, tAKAsHi s. KoHyAMA2, nAtHAn g. sWenson1, i-fAng sun3 (1) Michigan State University, (2) Hokkaido University, Japan, (3) National DongHwa University, Taiwan9:30am: O23-7 Functional traits are weak predictors of tree sapling growth worldwide c.E. timotHY painE1, HArAld Auge2, cHristopHer BArAloto3, sABine BotH4, nils BourlAnd5, Helge BruelHeide4, rolAnd de gouvenAin6, susAn doust7, pAul vA fine8, clAire fortunel3, JosepHine HAAse9, KAren d. Holl10, Hervé JActel3, Xuefei li11, KAoru KitAJiMA12, cHristiAn Messier13, AlAin pAQuette11, cHristopHer pHilipson11, dAniel piotto14, lourens poorter15, JuAn posAdA16, cAtHerine potvin17, MAriA-cArMen del ruiz19, MicHAel scHerer-lorenzen10, cAMpBell WeBB18, rAKAn A. zAHAWi19, Andy Hector11

(1) University of Stirling, United Kingdom, (2) Helmholtz-Centre for Environ- mental Research – UFZ, Germany, (3) INRA, UMR EcoFoG, French Guiana, (4) Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg, Germany, (5) University of Liege, Belgium, (6) Rhode Island College, (7) Australian Antarctic Division, Australia, (8) University of California, Berkeley, (9) University of Freiburg, Germany, (10) University of California Santa Cruz, (11) University of Zurich,

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Switzerland, (12) University of Florida, (13) Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada, (14) Yale University, (15) Instituto Boliviano de Investigación Forestal, Bolivia, (16) Universidad del Rosario, Colombia, (17) McGill University, Canada, (18) Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, (19) Organization for Tropical Studies, Costa Rica9:45am: O23-8 Patterns of plant functional traits in successional forests of Atlantic forest Katia Janaina Zanini, vAlério de pAttA pillAr and sAndrA cristinA MÜller, PPG Ecology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil

Conservation Biology–Corridors & Invasives

8am: O24-1 Contrasting ecological attributes of native and novel ecosystems in the Galapagos GonZalo F. rivas-torrEs1, Bette loiselle1, luKe flory2, dAnny ruedA3

(1) Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, (2) Agronomy Department, University of Florida, (3) Land Ecosystems, Galapagos National Park, Ecuador8:15am: O24-2 Do biological corridor networks work for giant damselflies? EmilY KHaZan, Biology, University of Oklahoma8:30am: O24-3 Movement of mud crabs in and between protected and non-protected areas in an en closed embayment in south-east Australia HilKE alBErts-HuBatscH1, ingA nOrdhAuS1, kAren diele2, JAn-olAf MeynecKe3, sHing yip lee3, MAttHiAs Wolff1

(1) Ecology, Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT), Germany, (2) Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom, (3) Australian Rivers Institute (ARI), Griffith University, Australia8:45am: O24-4 Degradation of an urban fragment of Atlantic forest after 12 years of biological invasion vania rEGina pivEllo1, JuliA troMMer vAz1, MAriAnA cHAuBet1, AnA luisA MengArdo1, tAlitA zupo2, felipe BArAtA russo1, ricArdo dislicH3, sAndrA lieBerg1, Welington BrAs delittiA (1) Ecology, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, (2) Botany, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil, (3) Ministério do Planejamento, Orçamento e Gestão, Brazil, (4) Superintendency of Environmental Management, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil9am: O24-5 Plant invasions in Mexico: Nation-wide patterns and prioritization of actions Karina BoEGE, césAr A. doMínguez, JuAn fornoni, Alfonso vAliente, frAncisco MolinA, luis BoJorQuez and AlMA orozco, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México9:15am: O24-6 Multi-decadal declines in tree density and species richness as alien plants invade a tropical island’s protected wet forests F.B. vincEnt FlorEns1,2, clAudiA BAider3, geneviève M.n. MArtin1, noosHrutH B. seegoolAM1, zeyn zMAnAy1, doMiniQue strAsBerg2

(1) Department of Biosciences, University of Mauritius, Mauritius, (2) UMR PVBMT, Université de La Réunion, Reunion, (3) Agricultural Services, The Mauritius Herbarium, Mauritius9:30am: O24-7 Impact of invasive alien plants on native tree ferns of a tropical wet forest and implications for conservation BettinA tHorMAnn1, clauDia BaiDEr2, pierre l. iBiscH1, f.B. vincent florens3

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(1) Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, Germany, (2) Agricultural Services, The Mauritius Herbarium, Mauritius, (3) Department of Biosciences, University of Mauritius, Mauritius9:45am: O24-8 Surrounded but not defeated: Galapagos’ native and endemic ant communities are threatened by their invasive congeners nina WautErs1,2, Wouter deKonincK2, denis fournier1

(1) Biological Evolution and Ecology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, (2) Entomology, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Belgium

Fungi and Microbes: Their Role in Community and Ecosystem Processes

10:20am: O25-1 Do foliar bacteria and resource supply impact tree seedling performance? Results from a long-term fertility experiment in a tropical forest in Panama Eric GriFFin1, BriAn trAW1, s. JosepH WrigHt2, WAlter p. cArson1

(1) University of Pittsburgh, (2) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama10:35am: O25-2 Plant - soil feedback mediated by different soil biota in savannah tree species in Tanzania GEmma ruttEn and MArKus fiscHer, Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Switzerland10:50am: O25-3 Host-specific effects of mutualistic and antagonistic soil microbes from agricultural and natural habitats camila piZano1,2, KAoru KitAJiMA1, scott A. MAngAn3, JAMes grAHAM4

(1) Biology, University of Florida, (2) Biología de la Conservación, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones de Café, Cenicafé, Colombia, (3) Washington University in St. Louis, (4) Plant Pathology, University of Florida11:05am: O25-4 Tropical forests as reservoirs of natural enemies against plant pests and diseases priscila cHavErri, Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, University of Maryland11:20am: O25-5 The relative importance of litter quality and soil fauna diversity on nitrogen mineral- ization in a tropical forest of southwestern China: Experimental evidence XiaoDonG YanG, Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China11:35am: O25-6 Fungal diversity and distribution in relation to plant cover in a tropical rain forest lucie zinger1, HEiDY scHimann2, Aurélie Bonin3, JeroMe cHAve1, eric coissAc3, ludovic gielly3, AMAiA iriBAr-pelozuelo1, Audrey sAgne2, MelAnie roy1, pierre tABerlet3

(1) EDB UMR CNRS-UPS 5174, France, (2) INRA UMR EcoFoG, Kourou, French Guiana, (3) LECA UMR CNRS/UJF 5553, France11:50am: O25-7 Effects of forest disturbance on myxomycete community composition in various aboveground microhabitats at the La Selva Biological Research Station, Costa Rica laura m. WalKEr, Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas

Populations in Time and Space

10:20am: O26-1 Consequences of seed dispersal for spatial patterns of adaptive genetic variation in a tropical tree stEpHaniE stEElE and victoriA l. sorK, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles

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10:35am: O26-2 Effect of partner identity and habitat on the population dynamics of Amazonian ant-plants Emilio Bruna1, HerAldo vAsconcelos2, BriAn inouye3, tHiAgo izzo4

(1) University of Florida, (2) Universidade Federal de Uberlandia, Brazil, (3) Florida State University, (4) Universidade Federal De Mato Grosso, Brazil10:50am: O26-3 Piecing the fragmentation puzzle together using population structure and genetics of rainforest mammals KatriEn an-soFiE GEurts, Earth and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Australia11:05am: O26-4 A new method for understanding how species’ traits interact with environmental filters to produce patterns of community composition anDrEW v. micHElson1, HeAtH W. gArris2, lisA e. pArK1,3, KrystAl KoHlMAn1 (1) Geology and Environmental Science, University of Akron, (2) Program in Integrated Bioscience, University of Akron, (3) National Science Foundation11:20am: O26-5 Poverty and wildlife consumption in Amazonia’s urbanized wilderness luKE parrY1, Jos BArloW2, HeloísA perreirA3

(1) Lancaster Environmental Centre, Lancaster University, United Kingdom, (2) Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Brazil, (3) Núcleo de Estudos de População, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil 11:35am: O26-6 Spatial movement optimization in Amazonian Eciton burchellii army ants susan KElli Willson1, ricHArd p. sHArp Jr2, ivAn rAMler3, AruniMA sen4

(1) Biology, St Lawrence University, (2) Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, (3) Mathematics, St Lawrence University, (4) Biology, Pennsylvania State University11:50am: O26-7 Well-seasoned demography: The importance of intra-annual variation for populations of a tropical milkweed (Asclepias curassavica) KimBErlY m. KEllEtt and ricHArd p. sHefferson, Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia12:05pm: O26-8 The role of frequency-dependent factors in regulating clonal expansion and maintaining genetic diversity in clonal populations Eloisa lasso1,2, MArtA i. vArgAs-tiMcHenKo1, eldredge BerMingHAM1

(1) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, (2) Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia

Conservation Strategies

1:50pm: O27-1 Are protected areas effective? A water resource network analysis in the Yucatán Península, México GEorGina o’Farrill1, KiM gAutHier2, BronWyn rAyfield3, orJAn Bodin4, sopHie cAlMe5,6, rAJA senguptA3, AndreW gonzAlez3

(1) University of Toronto, Canada, (2) Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada, (3) McGill University, Canada, (4) Stockholm University, Sweden, (5) Universite De Sherbrooke, Canada, (6) El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Mexico2:05pm: O27-2 Community ecology: Local and traditional ecological knowledge and community based approaches to restoration tEnYWa KasiiBa DaviD, Environment, Byepa International Foundation, Uganda

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2:20pm: O27-3 Assessing ecological priorities and conservation opportunities in Los Santos, Panama: A methodology for spatially-explicit, socioecological forest conservation planning micHaEl l. Bauman, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Florida2:35pm: O27-4 Water sustainability in NW Costa Rica: The challenge of balancing the needs of natural and human systems under climate change carolina murcia1, rAfAel Muñoz-cArpenA2, MAtteo convertino2, AndreA r. AlBertin2, MAHMood sAsA1, Miguel Angel cAMpo-Bescos2, greg A. KiKer2, JAne soutHWortH2, Wendy d. grAHAM2, peter fredericK2, MArK t. BroWn2, peter r. WAylen2

(1) Organization for Tropical Studies, Colombia, (2) University of Florida2:50pm: O27-5 Costa Rica’s payments for environmental services program: A socioecological systems perspective scott HarDY, Environmental Studies, McDaniel College3:05pm: O27-6 Assessing potential ecosystem services to support tropical forest conservation strategies silvio B. FErraZ1, KAtiA M. ferrAz1, cArlA cAssiAno2, dAnielA luz2, pAulo guilHerMe Molin2, ricArdo tAniWAKi3

(1) ESALQ/Forest Sciences, University of São Paulo, Brazil, (2) Forest Sciences Graduate Program, ESALQ, Brazil, (3) Applied Ecology Graduate Program, ESALQ, Brazil3:20pm: O27-7 Examining the impacts of payments for environmental services on the conservation behavior of cattle owners in Esparza, Costa Rica KorEY J. ForcE, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida3:35pm: O27-8 Establishing conservation corridors in the southwestern Amazon and tropical Andes aDrian tEJEDor, Investigación, Asociacion para la Conservacion de la Cuenca Amazónica, Peru

Evolutionary Biology–Speciation Mechanisms

1:50pm: O28-1 Evidences for inter-species hybridization and pollinator host shift as a mechanism for the codiversification of fig and fig wasps in sympatric fig taxa Jin cHEn1, gAng WAng2

(1) Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, (2) Key Lab of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China2:05pm O28-2 A multi-trait approach to address the systematic of tropical species: The case of Prevost’s ground-sparrow luis sanDoval and dAniel J. Mennill, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Windsor, Canada2:20pm O28-3 Origin and diversification of the Golfo Dulce avifauna, the roles of ecological and geographic barriers cEsar sancHEZ, Department of Biological Sciences, Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University2:35pm O28-4 Diversification of the widespread African tree genus Milicia (Moraceae) at the interspecific and intraspecific levels Kasso Daïnou1, grégory MAHy1, JeroMe duMinil2, cHristopHer W. dicK3, JeAn-louis doucet1, ArMel donKpégAn1, MicHAël pluiJgers1, Brice sinsin4, pHilippe leJeune1, olivier J. HArdy5

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(1) University of Liege, Belgium, (2) Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, (3) University of Michigan, (4) University of Abomey Calavi, Benin, (5) Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium2:50pm O28-5 Leaf size in three generations of a dioecious tropical tree, Ocotea tenera (Lauraceae): Sexual dimorphism and changes with age natHaniEl t. WHEElWriGHt1, JordAn p. sinclAir2, cris HocHWender3, fredric J. JAnzen4

(1) Bowdoin College, (2) Wayne State University, (3) University of Evansville, (4) Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University3:05pm O28-6 Eavesdroppers and signal evolution: geographic heterogeneity in bat predation and het erospecific transfer of parasitism risk in tropical frogs paula a. trillo1,2, KiM l. HoKe3, Keri A. AtHAnAs3, dAniel H. goldHill4, W. cHris funK3, Wouter HAlfWerK1, MicHAel s. cAldWell1,5, MAllory oWens2, XiMenA e. BernAl6, rAcHel A. pAge1

(1) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, (2) Butler University, (3) Colorado State University, (4) Yale University, (5) University of Minnesota, (6) Texas Tech University3:20pm O28-7 Evolutive diversification hypothesis in a Hypsiboas pulchellus group species (Hylidae) luiZ uGioni and João AleXAndrino, Biological Sciences, Federal University of Sao Paulo, Brazil3:35pm O28-8 Environmental gradients as drivers of speciation in tropical trees EliZaBEtH stacY, Jennifer B. JoHAnsen, toMoKo sAKisHiMA, AliciA M. rHoAdes, yoHAn pillon and donAld price, University of Hawaii Hilo

Spatial Structure & Dynamics of Tropical Forest Trees 1

1:50pm: O29-1 Modeling the dynamics of tropical forests - State of the art and perspectives anDrEas HutH1, tHorsten WiegAnd1, MArtin KAzMierczAK1, clAudiA dislicH2, seBAstiAn leHMAnn1, rico fiscHer1, feliX MAy1

(1) Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Germany, (2) University of Göttingen, Germany2:05pm: O29-2 Untangling determinism and stochasticity within local species neighborhoods across a tropical biodiversity gradient JonatHan a mYErs1, J seBAstián tello2, peter M. Jørgensen3, AleJAndro ArAuJo-MurAKAMi4, leslie cAyolA-pérez5, MAritzA corneJo-MeJíA5, Alfredo f fuentes-clAros5, M. isABel lozA-riverA5

(1) Washington University in St Louis, (2) Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development, Missouri Botanical Garden, (3) Research Division, Missouri Botani- cal Garden, (4) Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Bolivia, (5) Herbario Nacional de Bolivia, Bolivia2:20pm: O29-3 The relative importance of spatial processes and topography on structuring species assemblages in tropical forests ruWan puncHi-manaGE1, tHorsten WiegAnd2, Kerstin WiegAnd1, stepHAn getzin2, iAun gunAtilleKe3, cvs gunAtilleKe3

(1) University of Göttingen, Germany, (2) Ecological Modeling, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany, (3) University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

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2:35pm: O29-4 Sensitivity of population growth rates of a tropical tree species to conspecific neighborhood competition at multiple life stages trEvor cauGHlin1, JAKe ferguson1, pieter zuideMA2, douglAs levey3, JereMy W. licHstein1

(1) Biology, University of Florida, (2) Forest Ecology and Forest Management group, Wageningen University, Netherlands, (3) National Science Foundation2:50pm: O29-5 Non-linear density dependence reduces survival rates of common tree species in a species-rich tropical rain forest masatosHi KataBucHi1, sylvester tAn2, toHru nAKAsHizuKA3

(1) Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, (2) Sarawak Forestry Corporation, Malaysia, (3) Tohoku University, Japan3:05pm: O29-6 Micro-elevational associations of tree species in a Papua New Guinea rain forest JoHn B. vincEnt and george d. WeiBlen, Plant Biology, University of Minnesota3:20pm: O29-7 Can a neutral model explain detailed spatial community patterns of large trees in tropical forests? FEliX maY, tHorsten WiegAnd and AndreAs HutH, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Germany3:35pm: O29-8 Tests of neutral theory predictions for the Barro Colorado Island tree community informed by regional abundance data annEttE m. ostlinG, cody WeinBerger and devin riley, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan

Systematics, Biogeography and Paleobiology

4:10pm: O30-1 Congruence between spatial structure of tree species and within-species diversity in Atlantic central Africa GillEs DauBY1, JeroMe duMinil1, guillAuMe Koffi2, tAriQ stévArt1,3,4, olivier J. HArdy1, duncAn W. tHoMAs5, george B. cHuyong6, dAvid Ken fAcK7, BonAventure sonKé8, nicolAs BArBier9, vincent droissArt9, pierre ploton9, Bruno senterre1

(1) Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, (2) Université Nangui Abrogoua, Ivory Coast, (3) Africa and Madagascar Department, Missouri Botanical Garden, (4) National Botanic Garden of Belgium, Belgium, (5) Oregon State University, (6) University of Buea, Cameroon, (7) Center for Tropical Forest Sciences, Smithsonian Institution, (8) Laboratoire de Botanique systématique et d’Ecologie, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Yaoundé, University of Yaoundé, Cameroon, (9) AMAP, Institut de Recherche au Développement, France4:25pm: O30-2 The place of the Guiana shield in Neotropical biogeography JEromE muriEnnE, Université Paul Sabatier, France4:40pm: O30-3 How closely are Pericopsis elata (Fabaceae) patches linked to past human disturbances in South-Eastern Cameroon nils BourlanD1, frAnçois cerisier1, KAsso dAïnou1, AleXAndre livingstone sMitH2, WAnnes HuBAu2,3, HAns BeecKMAn2, yves BrostAuX1, fousseni ricHArd feteKe1,4, Julie Morin-rivAt1,2, JeAn- frAnçois gillet1, pHilippe leJeune1, JeAn-louis doucet1

(1) University of Liege, Belgium, (2) Royal Museum for Central Africa, Belgium, (3) Laboratory of Wood Technology, Ghent University, Belgium, (4) Pallisco SARL, Cameroon

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4:55pm: O30-4 Species niches and diversity along environmental gradients in a tropical mountain ecosystem DaviD scHEllEnBErGEr costa1, AndreAs HeMp2, MArKus fiscHer3, MicHAel Kleyer1

(1) Environmental Sciences, University of Oldenburg, Germany, (2) Plant Physiology, Universitat Bayreuth, Germany, (3) Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Switzerland5:10pm: O30-5 Analyzing soil charcoal to assess the naturalness of tropical forest JuliE morin-rivat1, AnAïs gorel1, KAsso dAïnou1, JeAn-frAnçois gillet1, nils BourlAnd1, AcHille BiWolé1, Adeline fAyolle1, olivier J. HArdy2, AleXAndre livingstone sMitH3, JAson vleMincKX2, JeAn- louis doucet1, HAns BeecKMAn4

(1) University of Liege, Belgium, (2)Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, (3) Royal Museum for Central Africa, Belgium, (4) Laboratory for Wood Biology and Xylarium, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Belgium5:25pm: O30-6 Footprints in the forest: Paleoecological and archaeological evidence of prehistoric human-environment interactions at Las Cruces biological station, Costa Rica sallY p. Horn1, MAureen sáncHez2, roBert l. sAnford Jr3 (1) The University of Tennessee, (2) The University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica, (3) Northern Arizona University

Conservation Strategies 2

4:10pm: O31-1 Does species richness and rarity really matter for tropical plant conservation? BEnJamin JamEs crain and rAyMond treMBlAy, Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico4:25pm: O31-2 Setting practical conservation priorities for birds in Colombia and then implementing them natalia ocampo-pEnuEla and stuArt l. piMM, Duke University4:40pm: O31-3 Natural canopy bridges over a gas pipeline: A mitigation strategy for arboreal animals in Peru trEmainE GrEGorY, fArAH cArrAsco ruedA, JessicA l. deicHMAnn, JosepH M. KoloWsKi and Alfonso Alonso, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute4:55pm: O31-4 Reducing threats through capacity building processes: The AAT conceptual framework for the assessment of impacts of capacity building in conservation armanDo valDés-vElásquEZ1,2, Andrés guHl3,4, MAríA cristinA lopez gAllego3,5, leAndro cAstAño BetAncur1

(1) Alianza Andes Tropicales, Peru, (2) Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru, (3) Alianza Andes Tropicales, Colombia, (4) Universidad de los Andes, Colombia, (5) Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia5:10pm: O31-5 A red list assessment of the status of Central American reptiles BrucE YounG1, neil coX2

(1) NatureServe, (2) IUCN/CI Biodiversity Assessment Unit5:25pm: O31-6 Testing the keystone plant resources concept in a lowland western Amazonian forest zoe diAz-MArtin1, varun sWamY2

(1) Department of Environmental Studies, Connecticut College, (2) Harvard Forest, Harvard University

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Tropical Biology: History and Education

4:10pm: O32-1 Jay M. Savage: A history of his contributions to tropical herpetology and to the Organization for Tropical Studies maurEEn DonnEllY, Florida International University4:25pm: O32-2 Launching sputnik and tropical biology: how external and internal factors have shaped the development of tropical biology EliZaBEtH losos, Organization for Tropical Studies4:40pm: O32-3 Encouraging native Americans and Pacific islanders in science careers requires good mentoring: Lessons learned from the OTS NAPIRE program Karin rita GastrEicH1, Wendy toWnsend2,3

(1) Avila University, (2) Organization for Tropical Studies, Costa Rica, (3) Noel Kempff Natural History Museum, Bolivia4:55pm: O32-4 Strategies for NGO-academia partnerships: Collaboration with the rainforest alliance to protect tropical streams rEBEca G. DE JEsus-crEspo1, cAtHerine M. pringle1, deAnnA neWsoM2

(1) Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, (2) Evaluation and Research, Rainforest Alliance5:10pm: O32-5 Eco-hydrology of a tropical montane forest, a REU site hosted by Texas A&M University in Costa Rica cHris HousEr, AntHony cAHill, eugenio gonzAlez, sArAH BrooKs, oliver frAuenfeld, gretcHen Miller, georgiAnne Moore, AnitA rApp, BrendAn roArK, gunnAr scHAde, courtney scHuMAcHer, roBert WAsHington-Allen, Kelly BruMBeloW and Kelly leMMons, Texas A&M University5:25pm: O32-6 The role of environmental and animal-welfare non-governmental organizations in combatting illegal wildlife trade in Peru EliZaBEtH FrancEs Daut, Texas A&M University

Community-Based Conservation & Resource Managements

4:10pm: O33-1 Community-level partnerships as key conservation outcomes: Lessons from the Solomon Islands and British Columbia micHaEl s. EsBacH, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History4:25pm: O33-2 Bottom-up participation centered on social assets: Working with communities living in and around protected areas in Peru Diana alvira1, AlAKA WAli1, gAliA selAyA1, AnA rosA sAenz2

(1) The Field Museum, (2) Instituto del Bien Comun, Peru4:40pm: O33-3 Community forests in rural NE Thailand: Values and potential JamEs m molonEY1, WAssAnA pHAnurAK2, nigel cHAng1

(1) James Cook University, Australia, (2) Nakhon Ratchasima Rajabhat University, Thailand4:55pm: O33-4 Understanding farmers: Using role playing games to explore futures of landscape management in the western Ghats (India) clAude A. gArciA1, JereMy vende2, nAnAyA M. KonerirA3,4, Jenu KAllA3,4, Anne drAy4, patricK o. WaEBEr4, MAelle delAy4, cHristopHe le pAge5, yenugulA rAgHurAMulu6, cHepudirA g. KusHAlAppA7, pHilippe vAAst8

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(1) ENV Programme, CIFOR, Indonesia, (2) AgroParisTech, France, (3) French Institute of Pondicherry, India, (4) ForDev, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, (5) UPR GREEN, CIRAD, France, (6) Central Coffee Board, India, (7) Ponampet, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India, (8) ICRAF, Kenya5:10pm: O33-5 Walking the landscape of forest harvesting in Costa Rica, where the Bribri indigenous territory and La Amistad International Park meet olivia sYlvEstEr, Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba, Canada5:25pm: O33-6 The role of the Ethiopian orthodox church in forest preservation in south Gondar, Ethiopia travis W. rEYnolDs1, AleMAyeHu WAssie esHete2, sArAH HolMes1, MArgAret loWMAn3

(1) Colby College, (2) Debre Tabor University, Ethiopia, (3) NC State Museum of Natural Sciences

Spatial Structure & Dynamics of Tropical Forest Trees 2

4:10pm: O34-1 Importance of spatial pattern and processes for coexistence in tropical forests tHorstEn WiEGanD1, feliX MAy2, AndreAs HutH2

(1) Ecological Modelling, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany, (2) Ecological Modelling, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Germany4:25pm: O34-2 Dispersal limitation and environmental factors shape tree community structure across life stages at multiple scales in tropical forests raJapanDian KanaGaraJ and tHorsten WiegAnd, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH – UFZ, Germany4:40pm: O34-3 Stochastically driven adult-recruit associations of tree species on Barro Colorado Island stEpHan GEtZin and tHorsten WiegAnd, Helmholtz Centre for Environ- mental Research – UFZ, Germany4:55pm: O34-4 A phylogenetic perspective on the individual species-area relationship in temperate and tropical tree communities luXianG lin, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China5:10pm: O34-5 The spatial structure of tropical trees: A spatial and phylogenetically explicit approach valEria Forni martins1, guilHerMe duBAl dos sAntos seger2, leAndro dA silvA duArte3, tHorsten WiegAnd4, flAvio Antonio MAes dos sAntos5

(1) Ciências da Natureza, Matemática e Educação, UFSCar, Brazil, (2) Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, UFRGS, Brazil, (3) Ecology, UFRGS, Brazil, (4) Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany, (5) Plant Biology, UNICAMP, Brazil

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The Importance of Vertebrate Seed Dispersal for Species Diversity and Community Structure- Merging Case Studies With Theory

moderator: amY E. DunHam, Rice University organizerS: HalDrE s roGErs and onJa raZaFinDratsima, Rice University / clarE aslan, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

8am: S20-1 Introduction: Community-level impacts resulting from widespread loss of vertebrate frugivores clarE aslan, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum8:15am: S20-2 Roles of seed dispersers in structuring plant communities through directed seed dispersal onJa H. raZaFinDratsima and AMy e. dunHAM, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University8:30am: S20-3 How seed dispersal distances interact with natural enemy interaction scales to influence population spatial structure, population regulation, and diversity maintenance HElEnE mullEr-lanDau1, MAtteo detto1, fredericK r. Adler2 (1) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, (2) Biology, University of Utah8:45am: S20-4 Density-independent dispersal benefits and strong impacts of weak density dependence: Exceptions or rules? Evan FricKE1, dOuglAS levey2, JosHuA J. teWKsBury3, s. JosepH WrigHt4

(1) Department of Biology, University of Washington, (2) National Science Foundation, (3) Luc Hoffmann Institute - WWF, Switzerland, (4) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama9am: S20-5 Community effects of variation in strength of seed dispersal and seed predation relative to seed predator abundance roBErt c. KlinGEr1, MArcel reJMAneK2

(1) Belize Foundation For Research & Environmental Education, (2) Evolution & Ecology, University of California, Davis9:15am: S20-6 Comparative seed dispersal of a transatlantic tree genus by neo- and paleotropical vertebrate species piErrE micHEl ForGEt1, dAvid KenfAcK2, AleXAndrA Muellner-rieHl3 (1) Ecology and Gestion de la Biodiversité, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, France, (2) Center for Tropical Forest Institution Global Earth Observatory, Smithsonian Institution, (3) Institut für Biologie, Molekulare Evolution und Systematik der Pflanzen, Universität Leipzig, Germany9:30am: S20-7 Patterns of zoochorous seed dispersal in restored tropical forest in Central America KarEn D. Holl1, J. leigHton reid1, rAKAn A zAHAWi2, roMAn goMez2, cHAse d. MendenHAll3

(1) University of California Santa Cruz, (2) Organization for Tropical Studies, Costa Rica, (3) Center for Conservation Biology, Stanford University9:45am: S20-8 The effect of complete bird loss on species diversity and community structure in the forests of Guam HalDrE s. roGErs1, JosHuA J. teWKsBury2, JAnneKe HillerislAMBers3 (1) Rice University, (2) Luc Hoffmann Institute - WWF, Switzerland, (3) University of Washington

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Tropical Freshwater Wetlands in the Changing World; Horizon Scanning of Emerging Threats and Opportunities to Biodiversity Conservation

moderator: Florian Wittmann, Max Planck Institute for Chemistryorganizer: pia parolin, University of Hamburg

8am: S21-1 Modeling carbon accumulation dynamics in tropical peat swamp forests soFYan Kurnianto1,2, steve frolKing1, MAttHeW WilliAM WArren3, Kristell HergouAlc’H2, Julie tAlBot1,4, Boone KAuffMAn5, rutH vArner1, dAniel MurdiyArso2,6

(1) University of New Hampshire, (2) Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Indonesia, (3) Northern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, (4) Université de Montréal, Canada, (5) Oregon State University, (6) Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia8:15am: S21-2 Integrating water-use related impacts on wetland biodiversity into life cycle assessment FrancEsca vEronEs, stepHAn pfister and stefAnie HellWeg, Institute for Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland8:30am: S21-3 Brazilian wetland forests: Species richness and distribution patterns at local and regional scales Florian Wittmann1, MArciA MArQues2, MAriA t.f. piedAde3, WolfgAng J. JunK4, piA pArolin5, etHAn HouseHolder3

(1) Biogeochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Germany, (2) Federal University of Parana, Brazil, (3) Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, Brazil, (4) Instituto Nacional de Areas Umidas, Brazil, (5) Sophia Agrobiotech Institute, INRA, France8:45am: S21-4 Do paleo-várzea floodplains support distinct plant communities? A test based on tree assemblage composition raFaEl lEanDro DE assis1, floriAn WittMAnn2, torBJorn HAugAAsen1

(1) Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway, (2) Biogeochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Germany 9:00am: S21-5 Caribbean forested wetlands ElsiE rivEra ocasio1, neftAlí ríos lópez2, AMAdou Bâ3, tAMArA HeArtsill scAlley4

(1) University of Puerto Rico/Bayamon, (2) University of Puerto Rico/Humacao, (3) Université Antilles-Guyane, Guadeloupe, (4) International Institute of Tropical Forestry, USDA Forest Service9:15am: S21-6 Impact on nitrous oxide emission of a leguminous Acacia crasssicarpa plantation on a peat swamp in West Kalimantan, Indonesia aYaKa HaYasHi, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Japan

Frontiers in Plant-Pollinator Interactions and Breeding SystemEvolution in the Tropics

moderator: lorEna asHWortH, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba organizer: mauricio quEsaDa, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México / silvana martEn-roDriGuEZ, Instituto de Ecologia, AC

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8am: S22-1 Natural selection on floral features in a co-evolved plant-hummingbird interaction in the Caribbean W. JoHn KrEss1, etHAn J. teMeles2

(1) Botany, Smithsonian Institution, (2) Amherst College8:15am: S22-2 Reassessing the pollination mechanisms in the neotropical dioecious palm genus Chamaedorea alFrEDo cascantE-marin, luis d. ríos and eric fucHs, Escuela de Biología, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica8:30am: S22-3 Pollination systems of woody trees in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest marcia motta mauEs1, MArcelo cAsiMiro cAvAlcAnte2, AndreA silvA sAntos3, fABrício silvA correA3

(1) Laboratório de Entomologia, Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuaria, Brazil, (2) Zootecnia, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil, (3) Embrapa Amazônia Oriental (bolsista Funbio), Brazil8:45am: S22-4 Reproductive assurance mechanisms in response to pollinator depauperate environments: Contrasting island and mainland systems silvana martEn-roDriGuEZ1, cHArles B. fenster2, MAuricio QuesAdA3

(1) Instituto de Ecologia, AC, México, (2) University of Maryland, College Park, (3) Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México9am: S22-5 Floristic diversity, reproductive seasonal patterns and pollination in rupestrian fields patricia c. morEllato1, dAniel W. cArstensen1, nAtHAliA M.B. rocHA1, nAtAliA c. soAres1, BrunA c. AlBerton1, g. Wilson fernAndes2

(1) Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil, (2) Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil9:15am: S22-6 Plant-pollinator networks in natural and disturbed habitats in the tropics martHa lopEZaraiZa-miKEl and MAuricio QuesAdA, CIECO, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México9:30am: S22-8 Pollination syndromes revisited: Do floral traits predict effective pollinators? mauricio quEsaDa1, victor rosAs-guerrero1, rAMiro AguilAr2, silvAnA MArten-rodriguez3, lorenA AsHWortH2, Jesus BAstidA1, MArtHA elenA lopezArAizA-MiKel1

(1) CIECO, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, México, (2) Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biologia Vegetal -CONICET, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, (3) Instituto de Ecologia, AC, México

Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Of Tropical Insects: Part 1

moderator: JamEs l.B. mallEt, Harvard University organizerS: JoHn lonGino, The University of Utah / marcus KronForst, University of Chicago / JamEs l.B. mallEt, Harvard University / DonalD H. FEEnEr Jr, University of Utah

8am: introductory remarks 8:15am: S23a-1 From Corcovado to Suriname: Conserving biodiversity with ecological data lEEannE alonso, Global Wildlife Conservation8:30am: S23a-2 Host specificity in phorid parasitoids of ants: Its origins and consequences DonalD H. FEEnEr Jr, Biology, University of Utah

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8:45am: S23a-3 Developing a temporal framework for insect responses to seasonal variation in availability of resources and climate for tropical rainforests niGEl E. storK1, voJtecH novotny2, nico BlutHgen3, roger l. KitcHing1, cArl WArdHAugH4

(1) Environment, Griffith University, Australia, (2) University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic, (3) Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, (4) James Cook University, Australia9am: S23a-4 El Niño events, host plant growth, and migratory butterfly abundance in a neotropical wet forest roBErt srYGlEY1,2, evAndro gAMA oliveirA3, roBert dudley4, Andre J. riveros2

(1) USDA-Agricultural Research Service, (2) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, (3) Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e Saúde, Centro Universitário Una – Campus Guajajaras, Brazil, (4) University of California, Berkeley9:15am: S23a-5 On the evolution of ant thermal performance: Clues from a Neotropical forest micHaEl Kaspari1,2, nAtAlie A. clAy1, stepHen yAnoviAK3, sHAi revzen4, AdAM KAy5, JAne lucAs5

(1) Zoology, University of Oklahoma, (2) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, (3) University of Louisville, (4) University of Michigan, (5) University of St Thomas9:30am: S23a-6 Systematics and biodiversity of Neotropical Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera) alma solis, Systematic Entomology Lab, ARS, USDA9:45am: S23a-7 Neotropical ants JoHn lonGino, Biology, The University of Utah

Ecology and Evolution of Neotropical Insects II: Butterfly Evolutionary Ecology

moderator: DonalD H. FEEnEr Jr, University of Utah organizerS: DonalD H. FEEnEr Jr and JoHn lonGino, University of Utah / marcus KronForst, University of Chicago / JamEs l.B. mallEt, Harvard University

10:20am: S23b-1 Adaptive radiation and speciation of Heliconius butterflies in Colombia, thanks to Larry Gilbert mauricio linarEs, Universidad del Rosario, Colombia10:35am: S23b-2 Integrating genomics into tropical biology: Testing Gilbert’s hypotheses DurrEll D. Kapan, Entomology and Genomics, California Academy of Sciences10:50am: S23b-3 Examining the link between mimicry and mate choice in tropical butterflies marcus KronForst, Department of Ecology & Evolution, University of Chicago11:05am: S23b-4 Mate searching and recognition cues during pupal mating in Heliconius butterflies catalina EstraDa, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama11:20am: S23b-5 Hybridization and evolution in Heliconius butterflies, and the Gilbert connection JamEs l.B. mallEt, Harvard University11:35am: S23b-6 Female behavior drives expression and evolution of gustatory receptors in butterflies aDriana BriscoE, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine

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11:50am: S23b-7 Passion, pollen and poison: Innovation and diversification in Heliconius and its interaction network laWrEncE E. GilBErt Jr, Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin

Trophic Downgrading in Tropical Forests and Its Biodiversity Implications

moderator: tHomas W. sHErrY, Tulane University organizerS: nicolE l. micHEl and tHomas. W sHErrY, Tulane University / WaltEr p. carson, University

10:20am: S24-1 Trophic downgrading in tropical forests and its biodiversity implications: What do we know? nicolE l. micHEl, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University10:35am: S24-2 Effects of mammal exclusion and hunting on seedling abundance of large-seeded tree species at La Selva Biological Station and surrounding areas roBin l. cHaZDon1, AMAndA l. Wendt1,2, WAlter p. cArson3

(1) University of Connecticut, (2) Proyecto Naturaleza y Comunidad, Refugio de Vida Silvestre Privado Nogal, Costa Rica, (3) University of Pittsburgh10:50am: S24-3 Positive and negative effects of terrestrial mammals interact to produce varying outcomes on seed and seedling survival in Costa Rican rain forests Erin K. KuprEWicZ, Organization for Tropical Studies11:05am: S24-4 Do fences make better neighbors? Vertebrate effects on litter arthropod biodiversity tErrancE mcGlYnn1, peter tellez2, MicHAel J. cHips3

(1) Occidental College, (2) California State University Dominguez Hills, (3) University of Pittsburgh11:20am: S24-5 Effects of terrestrial mammals on plant functional diversity in a Neotropical forest Erin l. KurtEn1, s. JosepH WrigHt2, Andres HernAndez2, WAlter p. cArson3 (1) Stanford University, (2) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, (3) University of Pittsburgh11:35am: S24-6 How unusual is the terrestrial mammal community of Barro Colorado Island? An assessment using camera traps patricK a JansEn1,2, dAvid ross oller1, frAnK vAn lAngevelde1

(1) Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University, Netherlands, (2) Center for Tropical Forest Science, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama11:50am: S24-7 Dynamics of an intact 5-level trophic web: Complex food webs mitigate the impact of felids on lower trophic levels WaltEr p. carson1, Ben t. HirscH2,3, dAniel MArtinez3, erin l. Kurten4, dAnielle d. BroWn5

(1)University of Pittsburgh, (2) Ohio State University, (3) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, (4) Stanford University, (5) Middle Tennessee State University12:05pm: S24-8 Trophic downgrading: When elephants disappeared JoHn W. tErBorGH and lisA c. dAvenport, Duke University

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Mistletoe Ecology and Evolution

moderator: DaviD m. Watson, Charles Sturt University organizerS: DaviD m. Watson, Charles Sturt University / roDriGo F. FaDini, Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará 10:20am: introductory remarks 10:25am: S25-1 Loranthaceae taxonomy guided by phylogeny DaniEl lEE nicKrEnt, Plant Biology, Southern Illinois University10:44am: S25-2 Phylogenetic relationships and host specificity on the endemic Caribbean mistletoes Dendropemon (Loranthaceae) marcos a. caraBallo-ortiZ, toMás A. cArlo and clAude W. depAMpHilis, Biology, Penn State University11:03am: S25-3 The effects of mistletoe on occurrence of insectivorous birds: insights from a removal experiment DaviD m. Watson, Environmental Science, Charles Sturt University, Australia11:22am: S25-4 Mistletoe-host specificity can be mediated by seed predation caused by a wood borer insect roDriGo F. FaDini1, AnA M. gArcíA2, leidielly p. gHizoni3

(1) Instituto de Biodiversidade e Florestas, Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Brazil, (2) Facultad de Ciencias, Grupo de Ecología Terrestre, Universidad de Granada, Spain, (3) Instituto de Ciências da Educação, Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Brazil11:41am: S25-5 Using the lattice-gas model as a tool for modelling the dispersal of parasitic plants fABiAnA Alves Mourão, clauDia maria JacoBi, José eugênio côrtes figueirA, Júlio MAnsur filHo and ronAld dicKMAn, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil12noon: S25-6 Mistletoe specialist frugivores: Latterday “Johnny Appleseeds” or self-serving market gardeners? JoHn raWstHornEi1, dAvid M. WAtson1

(1) Charles Sturt University, Australia, (2) Environmental Science, Charles Sturt University, Australia

Forest Peoples and Smallholder Forestry: Changing Market Integration, Livelihoods and Contributions to Smallholders to Mitigation and Adaptation

moderator: tErrY sunDErlanD, CIFORorganizerS: tErrY sunDErlanD, louis putZEl, miGuEl pinEDo-vasquEZ andBronWEn poWEll, CIFOR / sErGio riBEro, Universidade Federal de Para

10:20am: S26-1 The landscape approach: Ten principles to apply at the nexus of agriculture, conservation and other competing land-uses tErrY sunDErlanD, Forests and Livelihoods, CIFOR, Indonesia10:35am: S26-2 The real and imagined role of non-timber forest products Lessons from the Congo Basin patricE lEvanG1, guillAuMe lescuyer2, fidèle MBA AssouMou3, cAMille deHu4, dupleX nouMBissi5, rApHAël KABurA6, lucile Broussolle7

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10:50am: S26-3 Effects of market integration on agricultural biodiversity in a tropical frontier Darien, Panama KatHrYn r. KirBY1, doMingo diAz2, sArAH e. gergel2

(1) Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Canada, (2) University of British Columbia, Canada11:05am: S26-4 Bushmeat out of forests: Sustainable wild-meat procurement in fallow lands in the Peruvian Amazon miGuEl pinEDo-vasquEZ, Center for International Forestry Research, Indonesia11:20am: S26-5 Market integration and the contribution of forests to people’s nutrition in Alto Solimões (Brasil) and Amazonas region (Colombia) natHaliE van vliEt1, roBert nAsi2, cristinA AdAMs3, MAriA pAulA MesA Quiceno4, tAMArA BonillA5, JuAnA cAMAcHo6, lorenA vAlenciA5, enio MendonçA7, cristiAn MArtins7, MicHAel de oliveirA8, leAdy tellez9

(1) University of Copenhagen, Denmark, (2) CIFOR, Indonesia, (3) University of Sao Paolo, Brazil, (4) independant, Colombia, (5) Universidad Nacional, Colombia, (6) Instituto Nacional de Antropología, Colombia, (7) Universidad Federal do Amazonas, Brazil, (8) Universidad do Estado do Amazonas, Brazil, (9) Universidad de Colombia, Colombia11:35am: S26-6 The new agrarian change? Exploring landscapes that integrate forest carbon and food security in Asia cHris sAndBrooK1, sArAH Milne2, lisa HansEn3,4, terry sunderlAnd3

(1) UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Centre, England, (2) Australian National University, Australia, (3) Forests and Livelihoods, CIFOR, Indonesia, (4) University of British Colombia, Canada11:50am: S26-7 Market integration, purchased food use and nutrition in the East Usambara mountains: Lessons from PES programs BronWEn poWEll1, HArriet v. KuHnlein2, tiMotHy JoHns2, JoHn MsuyA3

(1) Forests and Livelihoods, CIFOR, Indonesia, (2) Centre for Indigenous Peoples’ Nutrition and Environment, McGill University, Canada, (3) Food Science & Technology, Sokoine University, Tanzania12:05pm: S26-8 Poverty and wildlife consumption in Amazonia’s urbanized wilderness luKE parrY1, Jos BArloW2, HeloísA perreirA3

(1) Lancaster Environmental Centre, Lancaster University, United Kingdom, (2) Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Brazil, (3) Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil

Tropical Forests and Climate Change: Linking Models, Plots and Tree Ring Data

moderator: piEtEr ZuiDEma, Wageningen University organizerS: piEtEr ZuiDEma, Wageningen University / simon l. lEWis, University of Leeds

1:50pm: S27-1 Climate change in the tropics: What do we know? ricHarD corlEtt, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China2:05pm: S27-2 Inter-annual variation in leaf production and seed production s. JosEpH WriGHt, Helene Muller-Landau and Matteo Detto, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama

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2:20pm: S27-3 Trait acclimation mitigates mortality risks of tropical canopy trees under global warming frAnK stercK and piEtEr ZuiDEma, Forest Ecology and Forest Management group, Wageningen University, Netherlands2:35pm: S27-4 What do 400 long-term forest inventory plots tell us about the changing ecology of tropical forests? simon l. lEWis1,2, oliver l. pHillips1, rAinfor consortiuM3, roel Brienen1 and Afritron consortiuM4

(1) University of Leeds, United Kingdom, (2) University College London, United Kingdom, (3) Network, Brazil, (4) Network, Congo-Kinshasa2:50pm: S27-5 Simulating the future of tropical forests under climate change DaviD GalBraitH, University of Leeds, United Kingdom3:05pm: S27-6 Centennial-scale growth trends in 14 tree species: A pantropical tree-ring study pEtEr GroEnEnDiJK, MArt vlAM, peter vAn der sleen, frAns Bongers and pieter zuideMA, Forest Ecology and Forest Management group, Wageningen University, Netherlands3:20pm: S27-7 Tropical forest responses to climate change: What long-term field studies can tell us DEBoraH a. clarK, University of Missouri3:35pm: discussion

Tropical Fungi: A Cryptic Frontier in Tropical Biology

moderator: HEatHEr D’anGElo, Columbia Universityorganizer: Krista l. mcGuirE, Columbia University

1:50pm: S28-1 Eat your heart out: Fungal decay of living tropical trees GrEGorY s. GilBErt1,2, JAvier BAllesteros2, MAJorie cedeño2, MAriAM treJos2, BrAnt fAirclotH3, trAvis glenn4, MegAn sAunders1, stepHen p. HuBBell2,3

(1) University of California Santa Cruz, (2) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, (3) University of California Los Angels (4) University of Georgia2:05pm: S28-2 Diversity and host affinity of plant pathogenic fungi in a tropical seedling community racHEl GallErY1, roBert BAgcHi2, oWen leWis3

(1) University of Arizona, (2) Institute for Terrestrial Ecosystems, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, (3) Oxford University, England2:20pm: S28-3 Diversity, distributions, and host affiliations of endophytes associated with tropical ferns mariana DEl olmo-ruiZ1,2, A. elizABetH Arnold2

(1) Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico, (2) Plant Sciences, University of Arizona2:35pm: S28-4 Belowground fungal communities and enzyme activities vary across seasons, but not between tree species stEpHaniE n. Kivlin and cHristine v. HAWKes, University of Texas2:50pm: S28-5 The role of tropical regions in biogeography of ectomycorrhizal symbiosis leHo tedersoo, sten AnslAn and sErGEi põlmE, University of Tartu, Estonia 3:05pm: S28-6 Responses of soil fungi to logging and oil palm agriculture in Malaysian dipterocarp forest Krista l. mcGuirE1, HeAtHer d’Angelo1, pAtAHAyAH MAnsor2, frAncis BreArley3, ninA yAng4, cAitlyn gilliKin1, cArling BAteMAn1, seren M. gedAllovicH1, Ben l. turner5, su see lee2, KABir peAy6, noAH fierer7

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(1) Columbia University (2) Forest Research Institute, Malaysia, (3) Manchester Metropolitan University, England, (4) Barnard College, (5) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, (6) Stanford University, (7) Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder3:20pm: S28-7 Variation in ectomycorrhizal community composition in montane forest along a soil nutrient gradient in a montane forest of western Panama aDriana corralEs1, JiM W. dAlling1, A. elizABetH Arnold2, KristA l. Mcguire3, (1) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (2) Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, (3) Biology, Columbia University3:35pm: discussion

Animal Movement Studies in the Golden Age of Telemetry La Paz

moderator: lisa c. DavEnport, Duke University organizerS: lisa c. DavEnport, Duke University / patricia cHapplE WriGHt, Stony Brook University

1:50pm: S29-1 Lemurs in motion: What we have learned from the new technologies patricia cHapplE WriGHt1, cAitlin KArAneWsKy2, eileen lArney3, JeAn clAude rAzAfiMAHAiModison3

(1) Anthropology, Stony Brook University, (2) Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, (3) Centre ValBio, Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar2:10pm: S29-2 Space, the final frontier: Wildlife movements and habitat use in three-dimensions JamEs sHEpparD, Institute for Conservation Research, San Diego Zoo2:30pm: S29-4 Message in a bottle: What have we learned about marine pelagic species from biologging and what is driving us forward? cHi Hin lAM1, Ben gAluArdi1, Molly lutcAvAge1, lisa c. DavEnport2

(1) Large Pelagics Research Center, University of Massachusetts, (2) Center for Tropical Conservation, Duke University2:50pm: S29-5 High resolution GPS-based mammal monitoring in tropical moist forests: Examples from the Madre de Dios basin, southwestern Amazon GEorGE v.n. poWEll1, MAtHiAs toBler2

(1) Conservation Science Program, World Wildlife Fund, (2) San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research3:05pm: S29-6 Remotely-sensed lidar canopy structure data help predict occupancy and use of space of a tropical arboreal vertebrate suZannE palmintEri1, george v.n. poWell1, gregory p. Asner2, cArlos A. peres3

(1) Conservation Science Program, World Wildlife Fund, (2) Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, (3) School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom3:20pm: S29-7 Tools for tropical wildlife trackers: A review of best technologies DonalD BriGHtsmitH and JAnice d. Boyd, Texas A & M University

Behavioral Ecology of Neotropical Arachnids

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4:10pm: S30-1 Why would mud-nest harvestmen Poassa limbata (Opiliones, Manaosbiidae) take over old nests instead of constructing a new one? anDrés roJas1,2, diego solAno2

(1) Research Centre, Veragua Rainforest, Costa Rica, (2) Escuela de Biologia, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica4:28pm: S30-2 Effect of leg loss on locomotion and food detection speeds in the harvestmen Holmbergiana weyenberghi (Sclerosomatidae, Opiliones) iGnacio EscalantE1, AndreA AlBín2, AnitA AisenBerg2

(1) Escuela de Biología, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica, (2) Laboratorio de Etología, Ecología y Evolución, Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable, Uruguay4:46pm: S30-3 Visual investment across life stages of the ogre-faced spider JaY staFstrom, University of Nebraska5:04pm: S30-4 Male behavioral plasticity in nest construction according to female availability and reproductive status in a sex role reversed wolf spider anita aisEnBErG1, fABiAnA BAldenegro1, MAtilde cArBAllo1, Alfredo v. peretti2

(1) Laboratorio de Etología, Ecología y Evolución, Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable, Uruguay, (2) Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal, CONICET - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina5:22pm: S30-5 Behavioral manipulation of host spider behavior by parasitoid wasps William G. EBErHarD, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama; Escuela de Biologia, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica

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Conservation Biology 2

5:40pm: P3a-1 Proposal for conservation of nectarivorous bats in the Sonoran Desert using ecological niche modeling cristian ivan Garcia-lEal, ricArdo eAton gonzález and Aldo guevArA cArrizAles, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, México P3a-3 Payment for ecosystem services and mammals: Do working landscapes benefit conservation? marGot a. WooD, Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University P3a-4 Llanos de Moxos, Bolivia: Meeting ground of Orinoco geese (Neochen jubata) from Brazil, Peru, and Bolivia WHAldener endo1, lisa c. DavEnport2, ines nole3, cArlos A. peres4

(1) Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway, (2) Center for Tropical Conservation, Duke University, (3) University of San Marcos, Peru, (4) University of East Anglia, United Kingdom P3a-5 The impacts of fire and invasive species on maintaining Asian elephant habitat in Sri Lanka cHristiE l. sampson, Biological Sciences, Clemson University; SCBI, Smith- sonian Institution P3a-6 A 20-year population trend analysis and the conservation of Nicaraguan Psittacids DaviD cHarlEs HillE1, MArtín lezAMA-lopez2, dAvid A. Wiedenfeld3, donAld BrigHtsMitH4, MicHAel pAtten5

(1) Biology, University of Oklahoma, (2) Paso Pacifico, Nicaragua, (3) American Bird Conservancy, (4) Texas A & M University, (5) University of Oklahoma P3a-7 Impact of landscape spatial configuration on dung beetle diversity in the fragmented Lacandona rainforest, México HilDa alEJanDra sáncHEZ DE JEsús1, victor Arroyo-rodríguez1, ellen Andresen1, federico escoBAr2

(1) Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, (2) Red de Ecoetología, Instituto de Ecología AC, México P3a-8 Unveiling the drivers of domestic dog invasion in rural landscapes with different proportions of remaining Atlantic forest Enrico FriGEri, KArinA diAs espArtosA, gustAvo de oliveirA and renAtA pArdini, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil P3a-9 Responses of small rodents to changes in landscape configuration in the fragmented Lacandona rainforest, México miriam san José1, victor Arroyo-rodríguez1, enriQue MArtínez- Meyer2 and víctor sáncHez-cordero2

(1) Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, (2) Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México P3a-10 Structure of the avian community in agricultural production systems of the Amazonian Piedmont of Colombia alEXanDEr vElasquEZ-valEncia1, MAriA Argenis BonillA2

(1) Museo de Historia Natural UAM, Universidad de la Amazonia, Colombia, (2) Departamento de Biologia, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia P3a-11 Structure of the fish community of an Amazonian Piedmont river, Caquetá, Colombia monica cElis-GranaDa, Museo de Historia Natural UAM, Universidad de la Amazonia, Colombia

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P3a-12 Potential use of fish and macroinvertebrates as bioindicators in Andean Amazon rivers of Colombia marlon pElaEZ-roDriGuEZ, Universidad de la Amazonia, Colombia P3a-13 Does bat assemblage information support the need to protect more tropical dry forests at a regional scale in central México? lorenA orozco-lugo1, DaviD valEnZuEla-Galván1,2, néstor MAriAno Bonigo1,2, AndreW JoHn rHodes espinozA3, césAr MAuricio ocAMpo rAMírez1

(1) Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, México, (2) Cuerpo Académico de Ecología Evolutiva, México, (3) CONANP, México P3a-14 Optimizing jaguar prey occupancy in Neotropical oil palm plantations: A case study in Nicaragua roBert A. euWe1,2, martiJn WEtErinGs3, ignAs dÜMMer1, JoHn polisAr4, roBerto sAloM-pérez5

(1) Van Hall Larenstein University, Netherlands, (2) Wageningen University, Netherlands, (3) Wildlife Management, Van Hall Larenstein, Netherlands, (4) Wildlife Conservation Society, (5) Panthera

Ecosystem and Landscape Ecology 25:40pm: P3b-1 Land-cover change in a semi-deciduous tropical forest: Consequences for tree diversity and aboveground biomass XaviEr Haro-carrión, Biology, University of Florida P3b-2 Tree species diversity along a gradient of human-modification in a Neotropical rain forest region: A landscape approach alinE pinGarroni1,2, Miguel MArtinez-rAMos2

(1) Laboratorio de Ecología de Poblaciones y Comunidades Tropicales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, (2) Centro de Investiga- ciones en Ecosistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México P3b-3 Improving estimates of biomass and biomass change in buttressed trees using tree taper models Kc cusHman1, Helene Muller-lAndAu2, stepHen p. HuBBell2,3

(1) CTFS, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, (2) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, (3) Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA P3b-4 Causes and implications of dry season control of tropical wet forest tree growth at very high water levels: direct vs indirect limitation DiEGo DiEricK1, steven oBerBAuer1, JosepH J. o’Brien2

(1) Dept. of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, (2) USDA Forest Service P3b-5 Seed rain: Initial assessment in two areas of riparian forest in Brazil BarBara silva pacHEco1, gABriellA dA silvA BezerrA2, Aline cristinA dA silvA Alves de sousA2, siMone rodrigues de sousA2, lidiAMAr BArBosA de AlBurQuerQue2, fABiAnA de gois AQuino2

(1) Unimontes/EMBRAPA, Brazil, (2) EMBRAPA, Brazil P3b-6 Litterfall production on three restored forest ecosystems within the low mountain zone in Costa Rica tania BErmuDEZ-roJas and roBerto A. cordero s., Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica

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P3b-7 Soils and land-use history as drivers of alternative successional pathways in Amazonian secondary forests paulo EDuarDo Dos santos massoca1,2, AnA JAKovAc1,3, tony vizcArrA Bentos1, eric Wiener4, g. Bruce WilliAMson1,5, cArlA nogueirA6, ritA de cássiA guiMArães MesQuitA1,2

(1) PDBFF, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Brazil, (2) Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia, Brazil, (3) Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University, Netherlands, (4) Ramapo College of New Jersey, (5) Louisiana State University, (6) Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil P3b-8 Responses of tropical high elevation Andean grasslands (Puna) to changes in thermal and hydrological regimes paulo c. olivas1, KennetH J. feeley1,2

(1) Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, (2) Florida International University P3b-9 Response of natural regeneration to ecological factors along an elevation gradient in Caribe-Villa Mills, Costa Rica FaBiola DE la cruZ BurElo, BryAn finegAn and diego delgAdo Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza, Costa Rica P3b-10 Estimation of the evapotranspiration in the central highlands of Veracruz, eastern México monica Ballinas and victor l. BArrAdAs, Ecologia Funcional, Instituto de Ecologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, México P3b-11 Soil physical constraints impacts on forest structure drive CWD stocks across central Amazonia DEmEtrius lira martins1, JuliAnA scHietti1, ted feldpAuscH2, flAvio J. luizAo1, oliver l. pHillips2, AnA AndrAde1, cArolinA cAstillHo3, susAn g.W. lAurAnce4, AtilA oliveirA1, iedA AMArAl1, Jose Julio toledo5, lAynArA lugli1, ericK oBlitAs1, cArlos AlBerto QuesAdA1

(1) Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Brazil, (2) University of Leeds, United Kingdom, (3) Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, Brazil, (4) James Cook University, Australia, (5) Universidade Estadual de Roraima, Campus de Rorainopolis, Brazil P3b-12 Evaluating the causes of tree mortality in southern Amazonia after the 2010 drought GaBriEl Hpm riBEiro1, roBinson i. negrón-Juárez2, cArlos HenriQue souzA celes1, niro HigucHi1, Jeffrey Q. cHAMBers3

(1) Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Brazil, (2) Harvard University, (3) Climate Sciences Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory P3b-13 Fine root dynamics: Integrating object-based modeling and minirhizotron time series data for an east central Amazonian moist tropical forest ElmEr BricEño1, dAgoBerto AriAs1, BrAdley cHristoffersen2, scott r. sAlesKA2, JAvier espeletA3

(1) Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, Costa Rica, (2) University of Arizona, (3) University of Washington P3b-14 Diameter growth of tropical dry forest trees in three successional stages in Minas Gerais, Brazil soFia calvo-roDriGuEZ1, Arturo sAncHez-AzofeifA2, MArio MArcos espírito-sAnto3, Julio c. cAlvo-AlvArAdo1

(1) Forest Engineering, Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, Costa Rica, (2) Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department, University of Alberta, Canada, (3) Departamento de Biologia Geral, Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros, Brazil

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P3b-15 Growth rates of tropical dry forest trees in three successional stages in Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica Dorian carvaJal-vanEGas and Julio c. cAlvo-AlvArAdo, Forest Engi- neering, Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, Costa Rica P3b-16 Rainfall interception in three successional stages of tropical dry forests, Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica césar D. JiménEZ-roDíGuEZ and Julio c. cAlvo-AlvArAdo, Forest Engi- neering, Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, Costa Rica P3b-17 Phenology of fifteen species of secondary tropical dry forests in Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica Xinia marín-Gaitan1, Julio c. cAlvo-AlvArAdo1, AnA JulietA cAlvo- oBAndo1, césAr JiMenez-rodriguez1, Arturo sAncHez-AzofeifA2

(1) Forest Engineering, Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, Costa Rica, (2) Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department, University of Alberta, Canada

Agroecology

5:40pm: P3c-1 Evaluating the impact of oil palm agriculture on soil microbial communities HEatHEr D’anGElo1, KristA l. Mcguire1, ninA yAng1, pAtAHAyAH MAnsor2, Ben l. turner3, noAH fierer4

(1) Columbia University, (2) Forest Research Institute, Malaysia, (3) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, (4) University of Colorado, Boulder P3c-2 The role of stress in coffee agroforestry systems in Costa Rica stEpHaniE GaGliarDi and MArney isAAc, University of Toronto, Canada P3c-3 Use of fruiting nance (Byrsonima crassifolia) trees by arboreal frugivores in a human modifed landscape in the Osa peninsula, Costa Rica Juan morEira-HErnanDEZ1,2,3, pABlo riBA1,2,3

(1) Proyecto Carey, Costa Rica, (2) Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica, (3) Institute for Tropical Field Studies, Costa Rica P3c-4 Ants attack!: Deciphering the relationship between ants and the coffee berry borer in a shaded coffee agroecosystem in México maria EstEli JimEnEZ-soto1, JuAn Antonio cruz-rodríguez2, JoHn vAnderMeer3, ivette perfecto3

(1) University of California Santa Cruz, (2) Agroecologia, Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, México, (3) University of Michigan P3c-5 The effects of patch size and matrix quality on bee functional diversity in a coffee agroecosystem in Costa Rica lEvi KEEsEcKEr1,2, pHilippe tiXier2,3, nilsA A. BosQue pérez1

(1) University of Idaho, (2) Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza, Costa Rica, (3) CIRAD, France P3c-6 The effects of landscape composition and management on shade tree species composition in coffee agroforestry systems acHim HäGEr1, rAfAel AcuñA2

(1) Center for Sustainable Development Studies, School for Field Studies, Costa Rica, (2) Escuela de Biología, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica P3c-7 Coffee agricultural intensification alters ant trophic niche structure DaviD J. GontHiEr1, AAron l. iverson2, ivette perfecto1

(1) School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, (2) Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan

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Systematics

5:40pm: P3d-1 Morphological differentiation of two morphs of the seagrass Halophila spinulosa (R Br) Ascherson (Hydrocharitaceae) from Ilacaon Island, Negros Occidental, Philippines anGElico JosE cavaDa tionGson1, JAnet s. estAcion2

(1) Biology Department, Silliman University, Philippines, (2) Institute of Environmental and Marine Sciences, Silliman University, Philippines P3d-2 Afzelia populations, a poorly known species complex of timber trees from African tropical forests armEl DonKpéGan1, olivier J. HArdy2, KAsso dAïnou1, pHilippe leJeune1, JeAn-louis doucet1

(1) University of Liege, Belgium, (2) Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium P3d-3 Molecular phylogeny of the brazilian Atlantic forest orchid genus Brasiliorchis MAriAnA novello1, maila BEYEr2, elizABetH Ann veAsey1, sAMAntHA KoeHler2

(1) Universidade Estadual de São Paulo, Brazil, (2) Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil

Biodiversity Inventory

5:40pm P3e-1 Biodiversity assessment of freshwater shrimps and crabs in the Nee Soon swamp forest, Singapore YiXionG cai1, sAMAntHA sun1,2, zHengping soH1,3, cAroline toK1,2, cHiA Mun Woo1,2

(1) National Biodiversity Centre, National Parks Board, Singapore, (2) School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, (3) School of Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore P3e-2 Using forest inventory data to define life history strategies of tropical dry forest tree species lElanD K. WErDEn1, Justin M. BecKnell2, Jennifer s. poWers2

(1) Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, (2) Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota P3e-4 Approach to the biogeographic reconstruction of the páramo areas of the northwestern Andes carlos JimEnEZ-rivillas, Colombia P3e-5 Floristic composition of a threatened Atlantic forest remnant, Southeastern Brazil DaniEl silva santiaGo, fABrício AlviM cArvAlHo and fátiMA reginA gonçAlves sAliMenA, Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil P3e-6 DNA barcoding of trees in long-term forest dynamics plots iDa c. lopEZ1, dAvid ericKson1, stuArt dAvies2, W. JoHn Kress1

(1) Botany, Smithsonian Institution, (2) Center for Tropical Forest Science, Smithsonian Institution P3e-7 Floristic composition of a pioneer community in a cerrado fragment restored by brush wood transposition osMAr cAvAssAn, vEriDiana DE lara WEisEr, André luiz giles de oliveirA, MAriA giuliA frederico fArinA de oliveirA, renAto MArtins cHAves, pAulA silvestri cAstello BrAnco and MAiArA cristinA gonçAlves, São Paulo State University, Brazil

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P3e-8 Hidden diversity: Rearing of caterpillars and integrative taxonomy reveals cryptic species in mistletoe butterflies lucas a KaminsKi1, luisA MotA2, noeMy serApHiM2, KArinA l. silvA- BrAndão3, André v.l. freitAs1

(1) Department of Zoology, UNICAMP, Brazil, (2) PPG-Ecologia, UNICAMP, Brazil, (3) Department of Entomology and Acarology, USP-Esalq, Brazil P3e-9 VegPáramo, a vegetation database for Andean Páramo GWEnDolYn pEYrE1,2, frAncisco-JAvier font cAstell1, HenriK BAlslev2

(1) University of Barcelona, Spain, (2) Aarhus University, Denmark

Population Biology

5:40pm: P3f-1 Population assessment and monitoring strategy for Atelopus elegans (Anura: Bufonidae) in the Natural National Park Gorgona diego goMez-Hoyos1, tatiana suarEZ-Joaqui2, cArlos BurBAno- yAndi3, WilMAr BolivAr-g2, Jose luis gArciA urdinolA4

(1) ICOMVIS, Costa Rica, (2) Biología, Universidad del Quindío, Colombia, (3) Universidad del Valle, Colombia, (4) Parques Nacionales Naturales de Colombia, Investigaciones y Monitoreo, Colombia P3f-2 Fine scale spatial genetic structure in Pouteria reticulata (Engl) eyma (Sapotaceae) a dioecious, vertebrate dispersed tropical rain forest tree species JoHn scHroEDEr1, cHristopHer W. dicK2

(1) Biology, Stanford University, (2) Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan P3f-3 Transient and asymptotic dynamics of pioneer plant populations in a Costa Rican cloud forest K. GrEG murraY1, KAtHy Winnett-MurrAy1, AArOn gArOuTTe2, MAuricio gArciA-c3

(1) Biology, Hope College, (2) Michigan State University, (3) Organization for Tropical Studies, Costa Rica P3f-4 Reproductive biology of the ‘Zygopetalum maculatum’ complex: a window into orchid diversification in ‘Campos de Altitude’ tHiAgo vinicius silvA cAMpAcci1, rEnata laurinE França DE olivEira1, rogério MAMoru suzuKi2, eduArdo luís MArtins cAtHArino2, sAMAntHA KoeHler1

(1) Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil, (2) Instituto de Botânica de São Paulo, Brazil P3f-5 Quercus humboldtii distribution dynamics in the Colombian Andes HErnanDo alonso roDríGuEZ-corrEa1, Ken oyAMA2, Antonio gonzález-rodríguez1 (1) Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, (2) Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores UNAM Unidad Morelia, México P3f-6 Edge effect on the density of cauca poison frog in the Colombian central Andes DiEGo alEJanDro GómEZ-HoYos1, tAtiAnA suArez-JoAQui2, cArlos soto-gArzón3, MAriA del MAr lópez-BArrerA2, cArlos cHicA-gAlvis3

(1) ICOMVIS, Costa Rica, (2) Universidad del Quindío, Colombia, (3) CLP, Colombia

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Pollination Biology

5:40pm: P3g-1 Orchid bee communities collapse with increasing landscape cover of oil palm george livingston1, laWrEncE E GilBErt Jr1, Andres vegA2, sHAlene JHA1

(1) Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, (2) AMBICOR, Costa Rica P3g-2 Composition and behavior of floral visitors of Tabebuia aurea (Bignoniaceae), a mass-flowering tree of central Brazil JorGE arturo loBo1, Aline cABrAl BrAgA2, Antonio AguiAr3

(1) Escuela de Biología, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica, (2) Ciencias Biológicas, Universidade Católica de Brasília, Brazil, (3) Departamento de Zoologia, Universidad de Brasília, Brazil P3g-3 Effect of the size of floral display on bee visitation rates in Tabebuia aurea (Bignoniaceae) alinE caBral BraGa1, Jorge Arturo loBo2

(1) Ciencias Biológicas, Universidade Católica de Brasília, Brazil, (2) Escuela de Biología, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica P3g-4 Cockroach pollination and its consequences on plant reproductive success BlanKa vlasaKova1, rAdKA BrizovA2, zuzAnA vArAdinovA3, JAn pinc3, frAntiseK JunA3, BlAnKA KAlinovA4

(1) Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic, (2) Institute of Chemical Technology, Czech Republic, (3) Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, (4) Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic P3g-5 Testing a method for differentiating between the contribution of insects and wind to the fertilization of outcrossing plant species mElaniE mccavour1, geoffrey fissore2, dAvid greene3

(1) Sciences Biologiques, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada, (2) Biology, Concordia University, Canada, (3) Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University, Canada

Seed Dispersal

5:40pm: P3h-1 Lekking status and daily period of foraging control seed dispersal by the lek-forming white-bearded manakin (Manacus manacus, Pipridae) césar cEstari and MArco Aurelio pizo, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil P3h-2 Bat Assemblage and chiropterocory as evaluators of ecological resilience in the management of the tropical dry forest of the National Wildlife Refuge Laguna Mata Redonda (Guanacaste, Costa Rica) marco antonio ramírEZ1, lilliAnA MAriA piedrA1, tAniA BerMúdez1, Willy pinedA2

(1) Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, (2) Reserva Biologica Tirimbina, Costa Rica P3h-3 Take me to the river – seed dispersal in Amazonian floodplain pia parolin1,2, floriAn WittMAnn3

(1) Plant Diversity, University of Hamburg, Germany, (2) Sophia Agrobiotech Institute, INRA, France, (3) Biogeochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Germany

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P3h-4 Seed germination response to stratification period and thermal regime in two Neotropical Polygonum species AnA letíciA BrAgAnçA rodrigues1, anDréa roDriGuEs marquEs GuimarãEs1, QueilA souzA gArciA2, roBerto luis BenecH-Arnold3

(1) Departamento de Ciência e Tecnologia Ambiental, CEFET-MG, Brazil, (2) Departamento de Botânica, UFMG, Brazil, (3) Facultad de Agronomía, UBA, Argentina P3h-5 Seed rain beneath isolated trees in a fragmented landscape in the São Paulo state, Brazil DaianE cristina carrEira1, victor Arroyo-rodriguez2, AlessAndrA sAntos penHA1, KAtiA M. ferrAz3, silvio B. ferrAz3

(1) Plant Biology, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil, (2) Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, (3) ESALQ/Forest Sciences, University of São Paulo, Brazil P3h-6 Contribution of the frugivorous bat ensemble to the seed rain in tropical dry forest sites under ecological restoration at Sierra de Huautla, Morelos México EDitH rivas-alonso1, cristinA MArtinez-gArzA2, lorenA orozco- lugo2, néstor MAriAno Bonigo2, dAvid vAlenzuelA-gAlván2 (1) Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Conservación (CIByC), México, (2) Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Conservación, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, México

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Land Use Changes and Habitat Fragmentation

8am: O35-1 Biodiversity responses to fragmentation revealed by novel landscape analysis véroniquE lEFEBvrE, MArion pfeifer and roBert eWers, Ecology and Evolution, Imperial College London, United Kingdom8:15am: O35-2 Understanding landscape dynamics in a highly fragmented Atlantic forest for improving biodiversity conservation Katia m. FErraZ1, dAnielA luz2, cArlA cAssiAno2, silvio B. ferrAz1

(1) ESALQ/Forest Sciences, University of São Paulo, Brazil, (2) Forest Sciences Graduate Program, ESALQ, Brazil8:30am: O35-3 Influence of Jatropha curcas and adjacent land use types over the bird community in Tárcoles, Costa Rica anDrEa corralEs1, sven gÜnter1, sergio José vílcHez1, AleJAndrA MArtínez1, fABrice declercK2

(1) Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), Costa Rica, (2) Program Agrobiodiversity and Ecosystem Services, Biodiversity International, France8:45am: O35-4 Using landscape history to predict biodiversity patterns in fragmented landscapes roBErt EWErs1, rApHAel didHAM2, WilliAM peArse3, véroniQue lefeBvre1, isABel rosA1, João cArreirAs4, ricHArd lucAs5, dAniel reuMAn1

(1) Imperial College London, United Kingdom, (2) University of Western Australia, Australia, (3) University of Minnesota, (4) Tropical Research Institute, Portugal, (5) Aberystwyth University, Wales9:00am: O35-5 Land use classification and deforestation detection in southwestern Nicaragua cassanDra J. rivas, opHeliA WAng, Bo stevens, School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, Northern Arizona University9:15am: O35-6 Habitat quality and quantity interact to determine biodiversity in fragmented landscapes paula KoElEr lira, JeAn pAul Metzger, renAtA pArdini, University of São Paulo, Brazil9:30am: O35-7 Habitat loss and extinction – deterministic processes leading to biotic homogenization tHoMAs pÜttKer, pAulo i. prAdo, rEnata parDini, University of São Paulo, Brazil9:45am: O35-8 Habitat loss causes the decline of bird functional diversity in fragmented Atlantic forest GrEEt DE costEr1, cristinA BAnKs-leite2,3, JeAn pAul Metzger4

(1) Ecology, Bioscience Institute, University of São Paulo, Brazil, (2) Imperial College London, England, (3) Dep Ecology, Bioscience Institute, University of São Paulo, Brazil, (4) Ecology, University of São Paulo, Brazil

Ecology and Natural History of Tropical Plants

8am: O36-1 Avoiding desiccation in tropical forests: mechanisms that maintain saplings’ plant-water status during seasonal droughts BrEtt WolFE, tHoMAs KursA, Biology, University of Utah8:15am: O36-2 What can fallen branches and vascular epiphytes reveal about the dynamics of epiphyte communities? Juliano sarmEnto caBral1, gunnAr petter1, gerHArd zotz2, Holger Kreft1

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(1) University of Göttingen, Germany, (2) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama8:30am: O36-3 Anatomical traits underlying stem and root wood density in contrasting Amazonian forests clairE FortunEl1, Julien ruelle2, JAcQues BeAucHene1, pAul vA fine3, cHristopHer BArAloto1

(1) UMR Ecofog, INRA, France, (2) UMR Lerfob, INRA, France, (3) University of California, Berkeley8:45am: O36-4 Ant-derived nitrogen as trade-off for the loss of water storage tissue in the myrmecophytic orchid Caularthron bilamellatum vEroniKa E. maYEr1, cHristiAn gegenBAuer1, gerHArd zotz2, AndreAs ricHter1

(1) University of Vienna, Austria, (2) Biology Department, Universität Oldenburg, Germany9:00am: O36-5 Non-arborescent perennials in the understory of a tropical rainforest: seasonal, annual and hurricane-related variation in leaf lifespans of ferns JoannE m. sHarpE, Sharplex Services9:15am: O36-6 Ants provide directed seed dispersal to a primarily bird-dispersed plant alEXanDEr vicEntE cHristianini1, pAulo sergio oliveirA2

(1) Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos, Brazil, (2) Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil9:30am: O36-7 Why do plants present heterophylly? The case of the leaf functional traits of Costus pulverulentus (Costaceae) J. antonio GuZmán q., Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica9:45am: O36-8 Genetic reconstruction of the introduction history of the invasive plant Clidemia hirta saara J. DEWalt and cHelseA A. WoodWortH, Biological Sciences, Clemson University

Animal Community Ecology and Evolution

8am: O37-1 Effects of tropical forest fragmentation on birds: Are effects consistent across species? ana c. iBarra-macias, Instituto de Ecologia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México8:15am: O37-2 Enemy targeting, trade-offs, and the evolutionary assembly of a tortoise beetle defense arsenal FrEDric v. vEncl1,2, roBert srygley3

(1) Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, (2) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, (3) USDA-Agricultural Research Service8:30am: O37-3 Comparative population genetics in three symbiotic partner species in central Africa céline Born1, JeAn peccoud1, finn piAtscHecK1, lAure Benoit2, MArJorie gArciA1, MAtHieu sAuve1, cHAMplAin dJiéto-lordon3, cHristiAne AttéKé4, dAvid HArris5, JAn J. WieringA6, doyle McKey7,8, rumsais BlatriX1

(1) CEFE, CNRS, France, (2) CEFE, CIRAD, France, (3) Laboratory of Zoology, University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon, (4) Département de Biologie, Université des Sciences et Techniques de Masuku, Gabon, (5) Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Scotland, (6) Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis, Wageningen University, Netherlands, (7) CEFE, Université Montpellier 2, France, (8) Institut Universitaire de France, France

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8:45am: O37-4 Patterns of cryptic speciation, host taxon specialization and endemism in neotropical ‘hispine’ beetles DuanE D. mcKEnna, Biological Sciences, University of Memphis9am: O37-5 Linking the traits of male ants with the ecological demands of diverse mating systems JonatHan Zvi sHiK1, dAvid donoso2, MicHAel KAspAri3

(1) Entomology, North Carolina State University, (2) Departamento de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Ecuador, (3) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama9:15am: O37-6 Do ants and earthworms pay the rent for being tenants within an ant-plant? rEnEE m. BorGEs1, JoysHree cHAnAM2

(1) Centre for Ecological Sciences, Bangalore, Indian Institute of Science, India, (2) Indian Institute of Science, India9:30am: O37-7 Geographic mosaic of an ant-plant guard system from a neotropical savanna ansElmo noGuEira1, pedro J. rey2, Julio M. AlcántArA2, luciA g. loHMAnn1

(1) Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, (2) Universidad de Jaen, Spain

Mountains and Elevation Gradients

8am: O38-1 DNA-based fungal diversity assessment in the Andean yungas reveals strong community structuring among forest types along an altitudinal gradient JoZsEF GEml1, nicolAs pAstor2, AleJAndrA BecerrA2, eduArdo nouHrA2

(1) National Herbarium of the Netherlands, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Netherlands, (2) Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina8:15am: O38-2 Forest functional composition and diversity patterns across a 2600 m altitudinal gradient in Costa Rica cAtAlinA ruiz osorio, BrYan FinEGan, sergio Jose vilcHez MendozA, Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza, Costa Rica8:30am: O38-3 Elevational gradients in beta-diversity reflect both regional effects and scale- dependent variation in the strength of local assembly processes J. sEBastián tEllo1,2, iván JiMénez1, peter M. Jørgensen1, JonAtHAn Myers3, MAnuel MAciA4, Alfredo f. fuentes-clAros5, leslie cAyolA- pérez5, gABriel ArellAno6, MAritzA corneJo-MeJíA5, M. isABel lozA- riverA5, JAvier QuisBert-Quispe5, vAniA W. torrez5

(1) Missouri Botanical Garden, (2) Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Ecuador, (3) Washington University, (4) Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, SPAIN, (5) Herbario Nacional de Bolivia, Bolivia, (6) Real Jardín Botánico, Spain8:45am: O38-4 The cloud forest communities in the mountains of central Veracruz, México: Heterogeneity along an elevation gradient? GuaDalupE Williams linEra, MAriA toledo and clAudiA gAllArdo, Functional Ecology, Instituto de Ecologia, AC, México9:00am: O38-5 Bird species richness along a tropical elevational gradient: Direct and indirect effects of abiotic and biotic determinants stEFan WErnEr FErGEr1,2, MAttHiAs scHleuning1,2, KiM Monroe HoWell3, KAtrin BöHning-gAese1,2,4

(1) Biodiversity Dynamics and Climate, Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Germany, (2) Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Germany, (3) University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, (4) Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Germany

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9:15am: O38-6 Does a generalizable elevational richness pattern exist for mountain stream insects? Brian a. Gill1, Boris c KondrAtieff2, AndreA c. encAlAdA3, n. leroy poff1, Kelly r zAMudio4, AleXAnder s. flecKer4, cAMeron K. gHAlAMBor1, KAyce Anderson1, W. cHris funK1

(1) Colorado State University, (2) Colorado State University, (3) Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador, (4) Cornell University9:30am: O38-7 Functional bee diversity along an elevational gradient at Mount Kilimanjaro alicE classEn, MArcell K. peters and ingolf steffAn-deWenter, Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, University of Wuerzburg, Germany9:45am: O38-8 The grass ceiling: Recruitment limitation above timberline may limit the adaption ability of tropical montane cloud forest to global climate change Evan rEHm and KennetH J. feeley, Biological Sciences, Florida International University

Forest Structure and Dynamics

10:20am: O39-1 Effects of forest dynamics on the dynamics of vascular epiphytes Gunnar pEttEr1, JuliAnO SArMenTO CABrAl1, gerHArd zotz2,3, Holger Kreft1

(1) University of Göttingen, Germany, (2) University of Oldenburg, Germany, (3) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama10:35am: O39-2 Deadwood biomass – an underestimated fraction of carbon stocks in degraded tropical forests? marion pFEiFEr1, Min sHeng KHoo1, ed turner2, JereMy cusAcK2, roBert eWers1, vun KHen cHey3, véroniQue lefeBvre1

(1) Imperial College London, United Kingdom, (2) University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, (3) Sabah Forestry Department, Forest Research Centre, Sabah, Malaysia10:50am: O39-3 Canopy dynamics, crown change and diameter growth of tropical trees stEpHaniE BoHlman, University of Florida11:05am: O39-4 Bringing together museum science and indigenous knowledge: A rapid inventory of a mountain range isolated from the Peruvian Andes ErnEsto ruElas inZunZa1, corine vriesendorp1, deBrA MosKovits1, nigel pitMAn2, diAnA AlvirA1, AlAKA WAli1, AlvAro del cAMpo1, roBert stAllArd3, MArio pArionA1, tyAnA WAcHter1

(1) The Field Museum, (2) Duke University, (3) US Geological Survey11:20am: O39-5 Connecting forest canopy structure with size distributions and tree demography in the Amazon scott c. starK1, BriAn J. enQuist2,3, scott r. sAlesKA2, veroniKA leitold4, JuliAnA scHietti5, cArolinA cAstilHo6, flAviA rc costA5, luciAnA f. Alves7, MArcos longo8, MicHAel Keller6,9,10, MicHAel A. lefsKy11, yosio e. sHiMABuKuro4, rAiMundo c oliveirA12, plinio B. cAMArgo13

(1) Michigan State University, (2) University of Arizona, (3) Santa Fe Institute, (4) INPE-National Institute for Space Research, Brazil, (5) Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Brazil, (6) EMBRAPA CPAFRR, Brazil, (7) NPD Jardim Botânico, IAC, Brazil, (8) Harvard University, (9) CSRC, University of

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New Hampshire, (10) USDA Forest Service, (11) Colorado State University, (12) Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, Brazil, (13) CENA, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil11:35am: O39-6 Assessing the influence of hurricane disturbance on Caribbean forest structure: A study case in the dry forest of Mona Island, Puerto Rico Julissa roJas-sanDoval1, elviA Meléndez-AcKerMAn1, Jose fuMero-cABAn1, Miguel gArcíA-BerMúdez2, José sustAcHe2, susAn ArAgón3, MAriely MorAles-vArgAs1 And denny s fernAndez1

(1) University of Puerto Rico, (2) Department of Natural and Environmental Resources, (3) Clark University11:50pm: O39-7 Catastrophic wind disturbance causes selective tree mortality in the Peruvian Amazon sami WaliD riFai1, Jose dAvid urQuizA Muñoz2, stepHAnie BoHlMAn1, Jeffrey Q. cHAMBers3

(1) University of Florida, (2) Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana, Peru, (3) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 11:50pm: O39-8 An experimental assessment of the impacts of mammalian defaunation on tropical forest understory floristic diversity anGEla anDrEa camarGo-sanaBria1, eduArdo MendozA rAMirez2, Miguel MArTinez-rAMOS1, rOdOlfO dirzO3

(1) Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, (2) Instituto de Investigaciones sobre los Recursos Naturales (INIRENA), Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, México, (3) Biology, Stanford University

Seedling Regeneration Ecology

10:20am: O40-1 Impacts of neighbor densities and habitat preference on seeding persistence in a Taiwanese tropical forest YicHinG lin1, Mei-ru cHen2, su-Hui Wu3

(1) Tunghai University, Taiwan, (2) National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan, (3) Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, Taiwan10:35am: O40-2 50th Anniversary of Connell’s Australian tropical forest plots and novel hypotheses for the importance of seedling dynamics for forest diversity KYlE E. Harms1, peter t. green2

(1) Louisiana State University, (2) La Trobe University, Australia10:50am: O40-3 Physical defenses, persistence in the soil, and fungal associations of tropical pioneer tree seeds paul-camilo ZalamEa1, cArolinA sArMiento1, dAniel p. rocHe1, A. elizABetH Arnold2, AdAM s. dAvis3, JiM W. dAlling4

(1) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, (2) University of Arizona, (3) Agricultural Research Service, USDA, (4) University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign11:05am: O40-4 Seed - fungal interactions in tropical trees: Exploring fungal diversity in pioneer seeds carolina sarmiEnto1, JiM W. dAlling2, pAul-cAMilo zAlAMeA1, AdAM s. dAvis3, A. elizABetH Arnold4

(1) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, (2) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (3) Agricultural Research Service, USDA, (4) Plant Sciences, University of Arizona

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11:20am: O40-5 Seedling pathogens as a biotic filter limiting the distributions of tree species across a rainfall gradient Erin r. spEar, Biology, University of Utah11:35am: O40-6 Leaf traits and host plant-fungal endophyte associations in a tropical forest sunsHinE van BaEl1, enitH roJAs2, luis c. MeJiA2, KAoru KitAJiMA3, gAry sAMuels4, edWArd Allen Herre2

(1) Tulane University, (2) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, (3) University of Florida, (4) ARS-USDA11:50am: O40-7 Trade-offs in carbohydrate allocation and the distributions of Bornean tree species along a soil gradient saBrina E. russo1, AMy KocHsieK1, sylvester tAn2,3

(1) University of Nebraska, (2) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama (3) Arnold Arboretum12:05pm: O40-8 Janzen-Connell effects in a common-shade tolerant tree manifested in 25 year cohort demography Kaoru KitaJima1, cArol K. Augspurger2, pAtricK A. JAnsen3, BenJAMin M. BolKer4

(1) University of Florida, (2) University of Illinois, (3) Wageningen University, Netherlands, (4) McMaster University, Canada

Ant Ecology and Interactions

10:20am: O41-1 Living in a plant: How mutualistic ants organize a defense and how parasitic ants break it saBrina amaDor varGas, University of Texas at Austin and Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica10:40am: O41-2 Diversity of epigeic ants in central-south of Bahia State, Brazil KarinE santana carvalHo1, ivAn cArdoso do nAsciMento1, JAcQues HuBert cHArles delABie2, JuliAnA zinA1, AnA lúciA Biggi de souzA1, elMo de Azevedo KocH1, MArcos Augusto ferrAz cArneiro1, AnselMo souzA sAntos1

(1) Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia, Brazil, (2) Laboratório de Mirmecologia da CEPLAC, CEPEC, Brazil11:00am: O41-3 Disentangling the diversity of arboreal ant communities in tropical canopies: Lessons from continuous forest plots pEtr KlimEs1,2, toM fAyle2, pAvel fiBicH2, voJtecH novotny1,2

(1) Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre of Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic, (2) University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic11:20am: O41-4 Leaf-cutting ants show species-specific hygienic behavior toward microfungi in their fungal gardens KimBErlY l. miGHEll1, sunsHine vAn BAel1,2

(1) Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University, (2) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama11:40am: O41-5 Effect of anthropogenic disturbances on ant community of the Caatinga José DominGos riBEiro nEto1, fernAndA MAriA pereirA de oliveirA1, AlAn Andersen2, inArA leAl1

(1) Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil, (2) Tropical Ecosystems Research Center, CSIRO, Australia

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12:00pm: O41-6 Diversity of ground-dwelling ants in southwestern Amazonia, Peru: Species interactions and the role of the behavioral dominance-discovery ability trade-off roXana p. arauco, fredericK r. Adler and donAld H. feener Jr, University of Utah12:20pm: O41-7 Nutrient limitation in ants along an elevation gradient KatHErinE K. Ennis and stAcy pHilpott, University of California, Santa Cruz12:40pm: O41-8 Ant traffic increase as a result of plugging behavior by the army-ant Eciton Burchellii (Formicidae:Ecitoninae) anDrEs camacHo, University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica

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Understanding Warming Effects On Tropical Forests: Insight Gained From Current Research and a Way Forward

moderator: SASHA REED, US Geological SurveyorganizerS: MOLLY A. CAVALERI, Michigan Technological University / TANA WOOD, US Forest Service / SASHA REED, US Geological Survey

8am: S31-1 Vulnerability of tropical forest ectotherms to climate change raYmonD B. HuEY1, luisA M. otero2

(1) University of Washington, (2) Universidad de Puerto Rico8:15am: S31-2 Imperfect acclimation of dark respiration to warmer nighttime temperature in upper canopy leaves of tropical trees and lianas martiJn slot1, cAMilo rey sAncHez2, KlAus Winter2, KAoru KitAJiMA1

(1) University of Florida, (2) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama8:30am: S31-3 Significant diel and seasonal variation in soil CO2 efflux is positively related to temperature in a moist subtropical forest in Puerto Rico omar GutiérrEZ DEl arroYo1, tAnA e. Wood2, Ariel lugo2

(1) University of Puerto Rico - Río Piedras, (2) International Institute of Tropical Forestry, USDA Forest Service8:45am: S31-4 Examining the role of temperature and belowground communities on the distribution of higher elevation tropical tree species JacquElinE moHan1, sHAfKAt KHAn1, fern l leHMAn1,2, pAul t. frAnKson1, rAKAn A zAHAWi3

(1) Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, (2) College of the Marshall Islands, Marshall Islands, (3) Organization for Tropical Studies, Costa Rica9am: S31-5 Which functional traits best predict climate impacts on tropical tree growth and survival? maria uriartE1, susAn g. letcHer2, vAnessA BouKili3, roBin l. cHAzdon3, Jesse r. lAsKy1, deBorAH A. clArK4

(1) Columbia University, (2 ) Purchase College, (3) University of Connecticut, (4) University of Missouri9:15am: S31-6 Ecosystem carbon cycling across a 52°c mean annual temperature gradient in hawaiian tropical montane wet forest crEiGHton m. litton1, cHristiAn p. giArdinA2

(1) University Of Hawaii at Manoa, (2) Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry, USDA Forest Service9:30am: S31-7 Urgent need for large-scale warming manipulation experiments in tropical forests mollY a. cavalEri1, sAsHA reed2, tAnA Wood3

(1) Michigan Technological University, (2) US Geological Survey, (3) US Forest Service9:45am: discussion

Anthropogenic Landscapes As Foci for Conserving Biological and Cultural Diversity in the 21st Century: Emerging Challenges and New Approaches to Application of Conservation Science on the Ground

moderator and organizer: KIMBERLY WILLIAMS-GUILLEN, Paso Pacifico

8am: S32-1 Diets of five migratory warblers (Parulidae) wintering in shade coffee: Opportunism, specialization, potential competition, and ecological services

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tHomas W. sHErrY1, MAttHeW d. JoHnson2, Kelly A. WilliAMs3

(1) Tulane University, (2) Humboldt State University, (3) Ohio University8:15: S32-2 Local and landscape effects of tropical forest restoration on bird and bat communities J. lEiGHton rEiD1, cHAse d. MendenHAll2, J. ABel rosAles3, rAKAn A. zAHAWi3, KAren d. Holl1

(1) University of California Santa Cruz, (2) Center for Conservation Biology, Stanford University, (3) Organization for Tropical Studies, Costa Rica8:30: S32-3 Predicting and sustaining biodiversity in tropical countryside cHasE D. mEnDEnHall1, dAniel s. KArp1, gerArdo ceBAllos2, M. clAire Horner-devine3, MArgie MAyfield4, federico oviedo Brenes5, tAylor H. ricKetts6, pAul r. eHrlicH1, gretcHen c. dAily1

(1) Center for Conservation Biology, Stanford University, (2) Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, (3) University of Washington, (4) The University of Queensland, Australia, (5) Organization for Tropical Studies, Costa Rica, (6) University of Vermont8:45: S32-4 Valuing the role of bats and birds in limiting the coffee berry borer in Costa Rica DaniEl s. Karp1, cHAse d. MendenHAll1, rAndi figuroA sAndí2, pAul r. eHrlicH1, elizABetH HAdly3, gretcHen c. dAily1

(1) Center for Conservation Biology, Stanford University, (2) Organization for Tropical Studies, Costa Rica, (3) Biology, Stanford University9am: S32-5 Let’s Play Azteca!: Linking the Theory and Practice of Agroecology through Gaming ivEttE pErFEcto1, luis gArciA-BArrios2

(1) University of Michigan, (2) El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR) San Cristobal, México9:15am: S32-6 Integrating sustainable cattle ranching, forestry and landscape restoration into intensive silvopastoral systems ZoraiDa callE, enriQue Murgueitio, Julián d. cHArá, CIPAV, Colombia9:30am: S32-7 Changes in culture, changes in management; the shifts in traditional use of sacred natural sites Emma sHEpHEarD-WalWYn, University of Kent, England9:45am: S32-8 Social and cultural issues associated with conservation of sacred sites; the case of Kenya cElia nYamWEru, St Lawrence University

Biological Corridors As Conservation Tool for Increasing Permea-bility of Human-Dominated Tropical Landscapes for Forest Species

moderator: CHRISTIAN H. SCHULZE, University of ViennaorganizerS: CHRISTIAN H. SCHULZE, University of Vienna / WILLIAM F. LAURANCE, James Cook University 10:20am: introductory remarks 10:35am: S33-1 Large mammal use of riparian forest corridors in Sumatra, Indonesia BEtsY Yapp and WilliAM f. lAurAnce, James Cook University, Australia10:50am: S33-2 Man-made dispersal barriers will increase the Amazon’s vulnerability to climate change KEnnEtH J. FEElEY1,2, evAn reHM1,2

(1) Florida International University, (2) Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden11:05am: S33-3 Protecting forests outside parks: Land cover dynamics in the San Juan-La Selva biological corridor region following a deforestation ban

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mattHEW E. FaGan1, rutH s. defries1, steven e. sesnie2, J. pABlo Arroyo3, WAyne s. WAlKer4, cArloMAgno soto3, roBin l. cHAzdon5, Andres sAncHun6

(1) Columbia University, (2) Southwest Natural Resources Inventory and Monitoring, US Fish and Wildlife Service, (3) McGill University, Canada, (4) Woods Hole Research Center, (5) University of Connecticut, (6) EARTH University, Costa Rica11:20am: S33-4 Features that influence the success and failure of wildlife corridors for rainforest mammals and birds susan G. W. laurancE, James Cook University, Australia11:35am: S33-5 Howler monkeys as mobile links in human-impacted landscapes JuliEta BEnitEZ malviDo1, diego A zárAte1, MAriA gónzAlez-dipierro2, ellen Andresen1

(1) Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, (2) Universidad Intercultural de Chiapas, México11:50am: S33-6 Habitat connectivity and the fate of biodiversity in tropical protected areas William F. laurancE, James Cook University, Australia12:05pm: S33-7 The importance of secondary forests as corridor habitats for forest birds at the margin of Piedras Blancas National Park, Costa Rica anDrés FElipE rEYEs páEZ, cHristiAn H. scHulze, University of Vienna, Austria

Tropical Stream Ecology: Research Needs in a Changing Planet

moderator: PABLO E. GUTIéRREZ-FONSECA, University of Puerto RicoorganizerS: ALONSO RAMIREZ and PABLO E. GUTIéRREZ-FONSECA, University of Puerto Rico 10:20am: S34-1 Carbon losses from tropical watersheds: Quantifying the effects of urbanization on concentrations of organic and inorganic carbon in coastal montane tropical rivers William H. mcDoWEll1, Alonso rAMirez2, Jody d. potter1, grizelle gonzAlez3

(1) University of New Hampshire, (2) Environmental Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, (3) IITF, USDA Forest Service10:35am: S34-2 Freshwater biodiversity, ecosystem services, and hydropower development in Central America EliZaBEtH p. anDErson, Florida International University10:50am: S34-3 Understanding the complexity of physical, ecological and human interactions on tropical island water and ecosystem sustainability toDD a croWl1, oMAr perez-reyes1, AlAn pAul covicH2

(1) Utah State University, (2) Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia11:05am: S34-4 Litterflow; Quality and quantity of organic matter export from forested headwater streams tamara HEartsill scallEY1, f.n. scAtenA1,2, sAMuel MoyA1, A.e. lugo1

(1) International Institute of Tropical Forestry, USDA Forest Service, (2) University of Pennsylvania11:20am: S34-5 Leaf litter breakdown in streams of east Malaysia, Borneo: Biodiversity effects of invertebrate communities on decomposition taJanG JinGGut and cAtHerine yule, Monash University, Malaysia

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11:35am: S34-6 The Year of the Midge: Chironomids coming to age in Costa Rica carlos l. DE la rosa, La Selva Biological Station, Organization for Tropical Studies, Costa Rica11:50am: S34-7 Stream fishes in a neotropical dry-land (Golfo de Morrosquillo, Colombia): Composition, structure and allometry suggest resistance to historical transformation Juan FElipE Blanco and cAMilo escoBAr sierrA, Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia12:05pm: S34-8 Long-term ecological research in lowland streams in Costa Rica: The importance of groundwater-surface water interactions on ecosystem dynamics alonso ramírEZ1, pABlo e. gutiérrez-fonsecA1, cAtHerine M. pringle2, MArcelo Ardón-sAyAo3, gAston e sMAll4

(1) University of Puerto Rico, (2) Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, (3) East Carolina University, (4) University of St. Thomas

Towards a Unified Ecology of Tropical Montane Cloud Forests

moderator: HEIDI ASBJORNSEN, University of New Hampshireorganizer: PATRICK MARTIN, Colorado State University

10:20am: S35-1 Land change between 2001 and 2012 in tropical montane forests/shrublands/grass lands in Latin America t. mitcHEll aiDE1, Hector ricArdo grAu2, AnA MAriA sAncHez-cuervo1, cArlos J. corrAdA-BrAvo1

(1) University of Puerto Rico, (2) Universidad Nacional Tucuman, Argentina10:35am: S35-2 Quantifying the suppression of transpiration due to cloud immersion for a Mexican weeping pine stand in a seasonally dry tropical montane cloud forest environment maria susana alvaraDo BarriEntos1, friso HolWerdA2, Heidi AsB Jornsen1, todd e. dAWson3, lA BruiJnzeel4

(1) University of New Hampshire, (2) Centro de Ciencias de la Atmósfera, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, (3) University of California at Berkeley, (4) Critical Zone Hydrology Group, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands10:50am: S35-3 Land cover and slope position affect water use and microclimate in the tropical montane cloud forests of Central Veracruz, México sYBil GotscH1, friso HolWerdA2, lyssette Muñoz2, Jeffrey Mcdonnell3, todd e. dAWson4, Heidi AsBJornsen5

(1) Franklin and Marshall College, (2) Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, (3) State University, (4) University of California at Berkeley, (5) University of New Hampshire11:05am: S35-4 The role of disturbance in community and landscape organization in tropical montane ecosystems roBErt o. laWton1, MicHAel lAWton2

(1) Biological Sciences, University of Alabama in Huntsville, (2) Baron Services, Huntsville, Alabama11:20am: S35-6 Elfin forest dynamics over the past 6,000 years in the cordillera central, Dominican Republic sHelley crAusBAy and patricK H. martin, Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Colorado State University

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11:35am: S35-7 Tree species composition and floristic turnover in a lower montane forest across a soil fertility gradient Fortuna, Panama Jim W. DallinG1, Arturo Morris2, Kelly Andersen3, pedro cABAllero4, Ben l. turner3

(1) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (2) University of Panama, (3) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, (4) University of Chiriqui, Panama11:50pm: S35-8 Human dimensions of the tropical montane cloud forest syndrome KEnnEtH r. YounG, Geography and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin

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