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Monday, June 26th

Monday, June 26th, 8:00 am to 12:00 pm · Sundance 3/Omni Hotel
Session SY1: Symposium: 4D Botany of the Anthropogenic Environment
Presiding: Rachel Meyer, University of California Los Angeles
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SY1001June 26th 8:00 amSundance 3/Omni HotelSpectral profiles of plants: Integrating multiple dimensions of biodiversity
Log in to add this item to your schedule		Symposium PresentationSchweiger, Anna K.; Cavender-Bares, Jeannine.Biodiversity
spectroscopy
plant function
SY1002June 26th 8:30 amSundance 3/Omni HotelMetal transport into Bayou Trepagnier wetlands in Louisiana
Log in to add this item to your schedule		Symposium PresentationDEVALL, MARGARET S.pollution
baldcypress
metals
SY1003June 26th 9:00 amSundance 3/Omni HotelReconstructing plant communities using DNA metabarcoding
Log in to add this item to your schedule		Symposium PresentationNichols, Ruth; Heintzman, Pete; Wang, Yue; Newsom, Lee; Belmechari, Soumaya; Green, Edward; Vollmers, Christopher; Shapiro, Beth.DNA
Metabarcoding
Metagenomics
Barcoding
Plant community analysis
June 26th 9:30 amSundance 3/Omni HotelBreak
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SY1005June 26th 10:00 amSundance 3/Omni HotelInterlinked relationships among plants, subsistence-oriented communities and climate change
Log in to add this item to your schedule		Symposium PresentationSavo, Valentina; Lepofsky, Dana; Benner, Jordan; Kohfeld, Karen; Bailey, Joseph; Lertzman, Ken.climate change
Observations
Biodiversity
SY1006June 26th 10:30 amSundance 3/Omni HotelCreating silviculture systems for tropical forests in Mexico
Log in to add this item to your schedule		Symposium PresentationMendoza, Martin Alfonso; Negreros-Castillo, Patricia; Navarro-Martínez, Angélica; Mize, Carl W; Cámara Cabrales, Luisa.slash and burn
Salsh and burn and tropical silviculture
Maya
community forestry
SY1007June 26th 11:00 amSundance 3/Omni HotelAnts and plants with extrafloral nectaries in urban and natural landscapes of south Florida
Log in to add this item to your schedule		Symposium PresentationKOPTUR, SUZANNE; Jones, Ian M.; Diaz, Cecilia M..extrafloral nectar
ants
mutualism
Fabaceae
legume
native species
exotic
interactions
June 26th 11:30 amSundance 3/Omni HotelDiscussion
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Monday, June 26th, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm · Exhibit Hall/Omni Hotel
Session P: Contributed Posters: Tropical Biology
Presiding: MARGARET S DEVALL, U.S. Forest Service
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PTB001June 26th 5:30 pmExhibit Hall/Omni HotelGeographic distribution and conservation assessment of Deprea species (Solanaceae)
Log in to add this item to your schedule		Poster: Tropical BiologyDeanna, Rocio; Leiva Gonzalez, Segundo; Barboza, Gloria Estela.Solanaceae
Deprea
distribution
conservation assessment 

Tuesday, June 27th

Tuesday, June 27th, 8:30 am to 9:45 am · Fort Worth Ballroom 1/Omni Hotel
Session 21: Contributed Papers: Tropical Biology
Presiding: Maria S. Vorontsova, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Carlos Jose Pasiche Lisboa, University of Manitoba
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21001June 27th 8:30 amFort Worth Ballroom 1/Omni HotelElevation and historical events shape moss community traits and functional diversity in Puerto Rico
Log in to add this item to your schedule		Oral PaperPasiche Lisboa, Carlos Jose; Hulshof, Catherine M.; Sastre-De Jesus, Ines.moss
funtional diversity
community assemblage
filtering
competition
elevation
Puerto Rico
Functional traits
21002June 27th 8:45 amFort Worth Ballroom 1/Omni HotelThe Grasses and Grasslands of Madagascar: a multidisciplinary Investigation
Log in to add this item to your schedule		Oral PaperVorontsova, Maria S.; Nanjarisoa, Olinirina P.; Hackel, Jan; Besnard, Guillaume; Linder, Peter.Africa
Madagascar
Poaceae
bamboos
phylogenetics
Phylogenetic Diversity
Indian Ocean
taxonomy
Systematics
new species
conservation
land use
21003June 27th 9:00 amFort Worth Ballroom 1/Omni HotelFruiting phenology pattern in a dry forest of Hispaniola Island, Greater Antilles
Log in to add this item to your schedule		Oral PaperSalazar, Jackeline; Ortega-Tibrey, Yolaine; Mateo, Amelia; Guzman, Rosanna; Leon, Yolanda; Feliz, Gerson; Nolasco, Yeimi; Carlo, Tomas.Dry forest
phenology
climate change
West Indies
Zoochorous plants
Seed traps
21004June 27th 9:15 amFort Worth Ballroom 1/Omni HotelPlaying the taxonomic cupid: Matching incomplete species of Clusia (Clusiaceae)
Log in to add this item to your schedule		Oral PaperLujan, Manuel A.Clusia
taxonomy
Systematics
dioecy
21005June 27th 9:30 amFort Worth Ballroom 1/Omni HotelPlant species richness and community composition along an elevation gradient on an isolated cloud forest volcano
Log in to add this item to your schedule		Oral PaperMarsico, Travis; Berríos, Hazel; Coronado, Indiana.Dry forest
cloud forest
montane forest
species richness
Tuesday, June 27th, 10:15 am to 11:00 am · Fort Worth Ballroom 1/Omni Hotel
Session M24: Meeting: Tropical Biology Business Meeting
Presiding: MARGARET S DEVALL, U.S. Forest Service
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June 27th 10:15 amFort Worth Ballroom 1/Omni HotelTropical Biology Business Meeting
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