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TUESDAY JUNE 16TH
7:30 – 8:10 Registration
8:10 – 8:15 Announcements. Alejandro Velázquez-Martínez, NAFEW 2015
Organizing Chair, Colegio de Postgraduados.
8:15 – 8:30 NAFEW 2017 preview. TBA
8:30 – 10:10 Plenaries 3 & 4 (Room: Costa de Oro)
8:30 – 9:20 Sustainable Forest Management for the Boreal mixedwood: something new
and something old. John Richard Spence. Professor. Department of
Renewable Resources. University of Alberta. Edmonton, Canada
9:20 – 10:10 Long tree-ring isotope chronologies in the U.S. Southwest and North
American Monsoon hydroclimate. Steve Leavitt. Associate Director and
Professor, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona. USA
10:10 – 10:40 BREAK
CONCURRENT A: ROOM COSTA DE ORO I
ECOLOGY AND SILVICULTURE (A)
TIME
10:40 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:20
11:20 – 11:40
11:40 – 12:00
12:00 – 13:00
13:00 – 13:20
13:20 – 13:40
TOPIC
Oak seedling survival and growth in
recently harvested hardwood stands:
interactions of vertebrate herbivory,
interspecific competition, and habitat
Biomass and carbon dynamics of Pinus
ponderosa plantations with repeated
vegetation and nutrient control: 20-year
results from the “Garden of Eden”
experiment in California, USA.
Understory vegetation response to thinning
– early trends and why they matter
Demographic interactions between seedling
survival and blight resistance: implications
for American chestnut restoration
PRESENTER
Kenneth F. Kellner &
Robert K. Swihart
Jianwei Zhang, Dave
Young, Gary Fiddler, &
Matt Busse
Klaus Puettmann
Nathanael Lichti, , David F.
McPherson, & Harmony J.
Dalgleish
LUNCH BREAK
Tree regeneration in cloud forest with
selective logging
Perla Ortiz-Colín & Tarín
Toledo-Aceves
Seedling growth and biomass allocation in
three cloud forest species
Yureli García-De La Cruz,
Ofelia A. Valdés-Rodríguez,
& Caupolicán MuñozGamboa
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TIME
13:40 – 14:00
TOPIC
PRESENTER
Improving oak establishment on former
agricultural sites
Eric J. Holzmueller, Joshua
B. Nickelson, &John W.
Groninger
The influence of cover soil design on early
upland forest development in heavily
disturbed boreal mine sites
Simon M. Landhäusser,
Justine Karst, Jana
Bockstette, & Shanon L.
Hankin
Silvicultural choices for the restoration of
mahogany and associated commercial
species in the medium semi-evergreen
forests of Quintana Roo, Mexico
Patricia Negreros-Castillo,
Mary Ann Fajvan, L.
Cámara-Cabrales, Margaret
S. Devall, Martin A.
Mendoza Briseño, Carl W.
Mize, & A. NavarroMartínez
14:40 – 15:00
Bottomland hardwood forest restoration –
stand development and opportunities for
enhancing compositional and structural
complexity
Brent Frey, Jonathan Stoll,
Rodrigo Vieira Leite, &
Charles Sabatia
15:00 – 15:20
COFFEE BREAK
17:00 – 18:30
POSTER SESSION 2
18:30 – 21:00
BANQUET
14:00 – 14:20
14:20 – 14:40
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CONCURRENT B: ROOM COSTA DE ORO II
FOREST ECOLOGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE/ QUANTITATIVE
TOOLS IN SILVICULTURE
TIME
10:40 – 11:00
TOPIC
PRESENTER
Can mixedwood management mitigate
climate change impacts on spruce in
western Canada’s boreal forests?
Phil Comeau
11:00 – 11:20
Limited migration: Will sugar maple (Acer
saccharum) tap out to climate change?
Kevin Solarik, Christian
Messier, Dominique Gravel,
& Yves Bergeron
Improving resilience of forest ecosystems
to climate change and extreme events:
Implications for the sustainability of the
terrestrial carbon sink
Richard Birdsey, Yude Pan,
Werner A. Kurz, Ben De
Jong, & Gregorio ÁngelesPérez
11:40 – 12:00
Mapping the resilience of tree species to
climate shifts in western North America.
Amanda Mathys, Nicholas
Coops, & Richard Waring
12:00 – 13:00
LUNCH BREAK
13:00 – 13:20
Photosynthetic, phenological and growth
response to warming in co-occurring tree
species at the boreal-temperate ecotone in
North America
Rebecca A. Montgomery,
Peter B. Reich, Kerrie M.
Sendall, Karen Rice, Roy L.
Rich, & Artur Stefanski
Historic patterns of neighborhood
crowding and composition influence
growth and mortality of red pine
Miranda T. Curzon,
Anthony W. D’Amato,
Shawn Fraver, Emily J.
Silver, & Brian J. Palik
Testing the Diversity-Stability Hypothesis
in Dry Forests of the Great Lakes-St.
Lawrence Region of Ontario, Canada
Corinne Arthur & Jeffrey
Dech
Quantifying the vegetation-pollen
relationship using public land survey
records, fossil pollen data, and Bayesian
modelling.
Andria Dawson,
Christopher J. Paciorek,
Simon Goring, John W.
Williams, Jason McLachlan,
& Stephen T. Jackson
Estimating aspen site index using the
Depth-to-Water topographic index on
boreal forest sites in Alberta
Gabriel Oltean & Philip
Comeau
11:20 – 11:40
13:20 – 13:40
13:40 – 14:00
14:00 – 14:20
14:20 – 14:40
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TIME
14:40 – 15:00
15:00 – 15: 20
15:20 – 15:40
15:40 – 16:00
16:00 – 16:20
17:00 – 18:30
18:30 – 21:00
TOPIC
PRESENTER
Prediction of Site Index in boreal forests of
central Alberta using environmental data
Ivan Bjelanovic, Phil
Comeau, Mike Bokalo, &
Barry White
COFFEE BREAK
Statistical properties of three
sampling estimators in the context of the
rotating panel design of the National Forest
and Soil Inventory of Mexico
Efraín Velasco-Bautista,
Héctor M. de los SantosPosadas, Hugo RamírezMaldonado, Gilberto
Rendón-Sánchez, J. Rene
Valdez-Lazalde, & Miguel
Acosta-Mireles
Windthrow risk modelling within oldgrowth and multi-layered forests of eastern
North America.
Kenneth Anyomi, Stephen
Mitchell, & Jean-Claude
Ruel
Alternative strategy for the classification of
models of fuels in temperate forest
ecosystems
José G. Flores-Garnica &
Laura P. Gámez Murillo
POSTER SESSION 2
BANQUET
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TUESDAY’S SYMPOSIA
SYMPOSIUM 3: Mexican network of intensive forest carbon monitoring
sites for supporting MRV systems development under REDD+: lessons
learned and future perspectives
Organizer: Gregorio Ángeles-Pérez
ROOM: COSTA DE ORO III
TUESDAY MORNING-AFTERNOON
TIME
10:40 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:20
11:20 – 11:40
11:40 – 12:00
12:00 – 13:00
13:00 – 13:20
13:20 – 13:40
13:40 – 14:00
14:00 – 14:20
TOPIC
Introduction, objectives, and overview of
the network.
National Forestry Program and its
institutional policy regarding Mexico’s
MRV system
Carbon stocks and fluxes from permanent
ground-plots and trials in Yucatan, México
Ecosystem flux measurements of carbon
and water in seasonally dry ecosystems as
components of intensive monitoring sites
LUNCH
Mapping biomass from LiDar data: the
influence of sample size, slope, and
canopy conditions on the accuracy of
estimations
Integrating carbon accounting models and
intensive carbon monitoring sites data to
support MRV/REDD+ systems in Mexico
Lessons learned from intensive monitoring
sites in the USA, Canada, and Mexico, and
the future of the network
CONCLUSIONS
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PRESENTER
Gregorio Ángeles-Pérez
José Medina-Mora de León
Juan M. Dupuy-Rada
Enrico Yepez-González &
Maria E. González
José L. HernándezStefanoni
Marcela Olguín-Álvarez
Richard Birdsey
SYMPOSIUM 4: Dendrochronology in forest ecology
Organizer: Armando Gómez-Guerrero
ROOM: COSTA DE ORO III
TUESDAY AFTERNOON
TIME
14:20 – 14:40
14:40 – 15:00
15:00 – 15:20
15:20 – 15:40
15:40 – 16:00
TOPIC
PRESENTER
Reconstructing historical mountain pine
beetle activity above 3077 meters
elevation in the northern Front Range of
Colorado
Laurie Huckaby & José
Negrón
The Mexican Juniper (Juniperus
monticola) f. compacta an alpine species
with dendrochronological potential
José Villanueva-Díaz, L.
Vázquez-Selem, J. CeranoParedes, O. Franco-Ramos,
A. Gómez-Guerrero, & N.
A. Aguirre-González
COFFEE BREAK
Coping with extreme events: growth and
water use efficiency of dominant trees in
western Mexico during the driest and
wettest periods of the last century
Luis Castruita, Armando
Gómez-Guerrero, Lucas
C.R. Silva, José VillanuevaDíaz, Arian Correa-Díaz, &
William R. Horwath
Dendrochronology and intrinsic water use
efficiency of baldcypress (Taxodium
mucronatum Ten.) in central Mexico:
Trends in the last century
Arian Correa-Díaz ,
Armando Gómez-Guerrero,
José Villanueva-Díaz ,
Julián Cerano-Paredes
Tomás Martínez-Trinidad,
Luis U. Castruita-Esparza,
& Javier Suárez-Espinosa
16:00 – 16:40
CONCLUSIONS
17:20 – 18:30
18:30 – 21:00
POSTER SESSION 2
BANQUET
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