** Curious about our upcoming speakers? Learn more here. **
Seminars are recorded and available upon request* (ValliIE@si.edu)
*Zoom recordings are automatically deleted after 15 months and will be unavailable after that period
2025
JUNE
- Sam Grubinger: Introduction to GEO-TREES: scaling plot measurements to global biomass through airborne laser scanning
MAY
- Mahendra Doraisami: Wood traits matter when estimating forest carbon stocks
APRIL
- Thorsten Wiegand: Spatial aggregation, animal seed dispersal and forest dynamics
- Anna Wassel: Pawpaws prevent predictability - A locally dominant tree alters understory beta-diversity and community assembly
MARCH
- Laura Boeschoten: Key role of water over light for tree growth in an everwet tropical forest
FEBRUARY
- Jon Henn: Metabolomic and morphological trait diversity display contrasting patterns in temperate forest tree communities
JANUARY
- Krishna Anujan: Sensitivity of tree growth to precipitation in seasonally dry tropical forests using long-term dendrometer band measurements
2024
DECEMBER - no Seminar Series
NOVEMBER
-
Kelvin Acebron: Scaling photosynthesis from a leaf to a tropical forest
OCTOBER
- Jose Medina: Nutrients and light co-limit carbon sequestration potential in lowland tropical forests
SEPTEMBER
- David Kenfack: Vouchering and morphospecies identification in large census plots
- L. McKinley Nevins: Investigating the drivers of tree-associated mycorrhizal fungal communities in the northwestern US
AUGUST - no Seminar Series
JULY
- Michael Kalyuzhny: Widespread spatial repulsion between conspecific adults: signature of stabilizing density dependence
- Robert Ang'ila: Fine-scale variation in soil and topography influences herbaceous vegetation and the distribution of large mammalian herbivores
JUNE
- Sean McMahon: Assessing the role of rare tree species in forests dynamics
- Luca Morreale: Nuisance species compromise carbon sequestration potential in an Eastern US temperate deciduous forest
MAY - no Seminar Series
APRIL
-
Juan Francisco Herrera Cueva: Diversity of Seeds Dispersed by Understory Birds of the Amazon Rain Forest of Yasuní
MARCH
- Eleanor Jackson: Conspecific density and the reproductive ecology of trees
FEBRUARY
Paint Rock Forest Dynamics Plot: the ForestGEO plot in the Southern Cumberland Plateau, USA
- Patience Knight: Part I -- Background & Introduction
- Helen Czech: Part II -- Results & Future Studies
JANUARY
- Jeffery Cannon & Nicole Zampieri: Disturbance ecology of longleaf pine - New disturbance studies in the Ichauway Forest Dynamics Plot
2023
DECEMBER - no Seminar Series
NOVEMBER
- Claire Fortunel: Abiotic and biotic drivers of tree dynamics
- Stuart Davies: GEO-TREES: Building a biomass reference system for the world’s forests
OCTOBER - no Seminar Series
SEPTEMBER
- Duncan Kimuyu: Edaphic factors and herbivory as determinants of beta diversity of trees in Mpala ForestGEO plot
AUGUST
- Uzay Sezen: Comparative transcriptomics of tropical woody plants supports leaf economic spectrum traits among lianas
JULY - no Seminar Series
JUNE
- Jessie Needham: Forest carbon cycle insights from field and model collaborations
- Fanhua Kong: Pioneer tree species accumulate higher neighbourhood diversity than late-successional species in a subtropical forest
MAY
- Sofía Montalvo: Devil's gardens in Yasuní forest: A fascinating interaction between ants and trees
- Patrick Baker: Starvation Creek FDP: The first Australian plot in the ForestGEO network
APRIL
- Luisa Gomez Correa: Influence of crown exposure to sunlight, tree growth and species wood density in the mortality of canopy trees at the Amacayacu plot
- Wirong Chanthorn: "Community assembly and functional traits of trees and lianas in a Southeast Asian Seasonal Forest"
MARCH - no Seminar Series
FEBRUARY
- Cynthia Wright: Contrasting transpiration responses lead to unequal contributions to evapotranspiration in the Caatinga dry forest
|
JANUARY |
- German Vargas G.: Understanding the distribution of drought tolerance in tropical forests
- Justin Mathias: Differential isotope-inferred leaf gas exchange strategies explain responses of Quercus rubra and Liriodendron tulipifera intrinsic water use efficiency to air pollution and climate change
2022
DECEMBER - no Seminar Series
NOVEMBER
- Maria Uriarte: Synergistic effects of droughts and hurricanes in Puerto Rican forests
- Joseph LaManna: Species interactions across abiotic gradients: An introduction to the Andrews Forest Dynamics Plots
OCTOBER
- Ines Münchinger: "Thermal tolerance of temperate tree species depends on their drought resistance traits"
- Lukas Magee (he/him): "Interplay of oak density, light availability, and fire in the success of longleaf pine regeneration"
SEPTEMBER
- Kamil Král (Blue Cat Research Team): "Canopy Space Occupancy and Tree Species Canopy Niches in European Old-Growth Forests"
AUGUST
- Susan Cordell: "Does Multi-Stemmed Habit in Trees Contribute to Resilience in Tropical Dry Forest?"
- Soren Struckman: "How fire is changing the Yosemite Forest Dynamics Plot"
JULY - no Seminar Series
JUNE
- José A. Medina-Vega: "The distribution of ectomycorrhizal tree symbionts in lowland tropical forests"
MAY
- Jim Dalling: "Introducing the Trelease Woods Forest Dynamics: A century of ecological research in an Illinois deciduous forest"
APRIL - no Seminar Series
MARCH
- Vanessa Rubio (she/her): "Functional groups, determinism and the dynamics of a tropical forest"
- Albert Y. Kim (he/him): "Using GitHub Actions continuous integration to automate quality assurance and control of ecological data
FEBRUARY
- Helene Muller-Landau: "Interspecific variation in tree-liana interactions and the implications for forest dynamics"
- Marcel Vaz: "Poor soils, rich forest: How leaf nutrients can mediate niche partitioning in the Central Amazon"
JANUARY
- Warren Brockelman: "Some research findings from the Mo Singto Plot: Why are there so few species of trees?"
- Cameron Dow: "Warmer spring temperatures in temperate deciduous forests advance the timing of tree growth but have little effect on annual woody productivity"
2021
DECEMBER
- Iveren Abiem: "To what extent do factors influencing species trajectories in lowland tropical forests apply to Afromontane counterparts?"
- Nidhi Vinod: "Thermal sensitivity across forest vertical profiles: patterns, mechanisms, and ecological implications - a review"
NOVEMBER
- Adam Martin: "Patterns and (Serious) Impacts of Beech Bark Disease in an Unmanaged Temperate Forest"
- Brian Enquist: "An Introduction to the San Emilio Forest Dynamics Plot: Assessing the drivers underlying four decades of change in a neotropical seasonally dry forest"
OCTOBER
- Special Format: A conversation between Stuart Davies, Steve Hubbell, and Peter Ashton on the history and future directions of ForestGEO
SEPTEMBER
- Melina de Souza Leite: "The dominant role of taxonomy in global forests: Disentangling the major contributions to tree demography"
- Pavel Samonil: "Tree mortality may drive landscape formation: comparative study from ten temperate forests"
AUGUST
- Yu-Yun Chen: "Does masting matter? Fate of seedlings in a general flowering forest"
- Xugao Wang: "How mycorrhizal associations influence diversity-biomass relationships among forests"
JULY
- Lisa Hülsmann: "Is there a latitudinal gradient in CNDD? Evidence from a new cross-site analysis based on tree mortality"
- Yves Basset: "ForestGEO Arthropod Initiative"
JUNE
- Yuanzhi Li: "Are higher-order interactions prevalent in forests? An empirical test"
- Jenn Baltzer: "Permafrost thaw as a driver of species turnover and forest productivity change in a boreal peatland"
MAY - Lightning Talk Edition
- Kasia Ziemińska ON wood anatomy after a hurricane
- Nia Perron ON boreal peatland transpiration change
- Ben Kopania ON quantifying tropical branch turnover
- Andrea Drager ON Korup's understory floral visitors
- Bier Kraichak ON allometry for tropical seedlings
APRIL
- Monique Weemstra: "Roots and leaves modulate each other’s effects on tree growth"
- Ryan Mushinski: "Using mycorrhizal categories to better define soil nitrogen cycling in temperate forests"
MARCH
- Evan Gora: "Lightning in tropical forests: ecological effects and contributions to forest dynamics"
- Luiza Aparecido & Benjamin Blonder: "Does leaf venation reticulation provide damage resistance or resilience to herbivory?"
FEBRUARY
- Chris Wills: "Interactions Between All Pairs of Neighboring Trees in 16 Forests Worldwide: Ecological Processes and Evolutionary Histories"
- Kristina Anderson-Teixeira: "Using tree-ring records to simultaneously characterize the influence of climate, tree size, and slowly changing environmental drivers on annual growth"
JANUARY
- Bailey McNichol: "Topographic niches of woody species at a biogeographic crossroads in the Midwestern USA"
- Moses Libalah: "Interspecific demographic variation among growth-forms of tropical rainforests trees"
2020
DECEMBER:
- Jess Zimmerman: "Luquillo FDP: Update with any eye on drought"
- KC Cushman: "Insights into tropical forest gap dynamics from repeat drone photogrammetry"
NOVEMBER:
- Matthew Luskin: "Large wildlife as an important source of conspecific negative density dependence in tree recruitment in ForestGEO plots"
- Elsa Ordway: "Capturing variation in tropical forest structure and function in an Ecosystem Demography model"
OCTOBER:
- David Burslem: "Role of soil fungal networks in the maintenance of tree species richness of tropical and subtropical forests"
- Daniel Zuleta: "Patterns and modes of tropical tree mortality"
SEPTEMBER:
- Camille Piponiot: "Size-related carbon dynamics in ForestGEO sites"
- Dan Johnson: "Longleaf pine forest dynamics: low richness – complex coexistence"
