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Forest Ecology Lab Group Meetings Spring Semester 2008
Thursdays noon – 1:00 PM in 19 Green Hall
January 24 Peter Reich, “Response of Scots pine growth and survival to climate warming”
January 31 Discussion: Idea development (supplementary reading)
February 7 Roy Rich, “Range-scale leaf trait variation among six southern-boreal species”
February 13 Brian Pelc, "American hazel dynamics and impacts in Midwestern Oak Savanna" Wednesday at 10:30am in 100 Skok
February 14 Discussion: Physiological traits and plant communities (reading materials)
February 21 Jacek Oleksyn, “Controls of soil geochemistry over plant nutrients and ecophysiology: results from common-garden experiment with natural Tertiary and Quaternary soils in central Poland”
February 28 Lee Frelich, Discussion: “Global warming, native species conservation and forest management” (reading materials)
March 6 Peter, Rebecca, & Roy: B4WARM (new experiment in northern MN)
March 13 Kala Peebles, “Tree response to global climate change at the boreal/temperate forest ecotone: interacting effects of temperature and light on plant allocation to carbohydrate storage, physiology and survival”
March 20 NO MEETING Spring break
March 27 Terry Serres, research proposal discussion
April 3 Kerrie Sendall, “Variation in leaf and fine stem CO2 flux as a function of plant size and light environment in three temperate deciduous tree species”
April 10 Rebecca Montgomery, practice talk on red pine forest shrub manipulation work
April 17 Christel Kern, “80 years of silvicultural research at the Dukes Experimental Forest, Michigan”
April 24 Nick Danz, "Spatial heterogeneity in drivers of the presettlement prairie-forest transition in MN"
May 1 Javier Espeleta, “Belowground dynamics in a lowland tropical rainforest”
May 8 Suzie Boyden, “Scaling forest processes from the neighborhood to the stand: A case study from the Chippewa National Forest”
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