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2022
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"
