Topics and Invited Speakers:
Section I：Community Spatial Patterns and Species Coexistence Mechanisms
Topics/Titles
Speakers
Affiliations
Center for Tropical
Forest Science-
TBA
Stuart Davies
Smithsonian Institute
Global Earth
Observatories
Center for Tropical
Long-term population changes in tree communities in
rare and common species
Forest ScienceRichard Condit
Smithsonian Institute
Global Earth
Observatories
Underlying mechanisms controlling species-area
relationships and distance-decay curves in two
Xugao Wang
temperate forests in Northeastern China and US
Institute of Applied
Ecology, CAS
Center for Tropical
Long-term tree replacement rates resolve
Janzen-Connell paradox in a Neotropical forest
I Fang Sun
Ecology and
Biodiversity Tunghai
University
Institute of Ecology
Community generation of an evergreen broad-leaved
forest in Gutianshan National Natural Reserve
and Biological
Mingjian Yu
Conservation, College
of Life Sciences,
Zhejiang University
A first ecological glance at the lianas in the Yasuní
Forest Dynamics Plot (Ecuador): community and
Hugo Romero
functional patterns in ridge and valley habitats
Separating the effect of mechanisms shaping
species-abundance distributions at multiple scales in a
Xiangcheng Mi
subtropical forest
Relationships between biomass, productivity and
diversity in forest tree communities
A re-evaluation of the generality of -2 power rule in
tree size distributions
Ryan Chisholm
Jiangshan Lai
Pontificia Universidad
Católica del Ecuador
Institute of Botany,
CAS
Smithsonian Tropical
Research Institute
Institute of Botany,
CAS
Section II: Plant Recruitment: Seed and Seedling Stages
Topics/Titles
Speakers
Interannual variation in leaf, fruit, and flower
Helene
production in Panamanian tropical forests and the
Muller-Landau, M.
implications for understanding global change
Detto & J. Wright
Effects of drought on tropical tree seedling dynamics
Liza Comita
Institution
Smithsonian Tropical
Research Institute
Smithsonian Tropical
Research Institute
Temporal and spatial variability in seedling
recruitment in a tropical forest
Department of Life
Yiching Lin
Science,
Tunghai University
Center for Tropical
Reproductive phenological patterns in Southeast
Asian forests
Forest ScienceErin Kurten
Smithsonian Institute
Global Earth
Observatories
Estimating plant dispersal distances from spatial
patterns using wavelets
Matteo Detto
Smithsonian Tropical
Research Institute
Section III: Community Phylogenetics
Topics/Titles
Phylogenetic and Functional Alpha and Beta
Diversity in Tropical and Temperate CTFS plots
Speakers
Nathan Swenson
Resilience of tropical forests to past and future
climate changes: insights from comparative
Christopher Dick
phylogeography
The roots of diversity: below ground species overlap
in a tropical forest revealed by DNA barcoding and
Andy Jones
inverse modeling of root distributions
Genetic groups in common plant species Castanopsis
chinensis and their associations with environments in
Zhengfeng Wang
a community
Institution
Michigan State
University, US
Smithsonian Tropical
Research Institute
Oregon State
University
South China Botanical
Garden, CAS
Section IV: Forest Dynamics under Disturbances
Topics/Titles
Speakers
Institution
Center for Tropical
Forest Science-
The rainfall gradient in pest pressure
Tania Brenes
Smithsonian Institute
Global Earth
Observatories
Center for Tropical
Spatial patterns of carbon stocks in two selected
broadleaved evergreen forests under contrasting
JyhMin Chiang
typhoon disturbance regimes
Fire frequency, area burned, and severity: A
quantitative approach to defining a normal fire year
Ecology and
Biodiversity Tunghai
University
James Lutz
University of
Washington
Center for Tropical
Using demographic models and plot data to predict
the transient dynamics of forest systems
Forest ScienceSean McMahon
Smithsonian Institute
Global Earth
Observatories
Sustainability Science
Program, Center for
Ecophysiology of hemiepiphytic and
non-hemiepiphytic Ficus tree species: impacts of
Guangyou Hao
International
Development,
hydraulics on plant functioning
Harvard University
CForBio: Current status and future perspectives
Keping Ma
Institute of Botany,
CAS