From 9 to 13 June 2008, many of the participants in the BRIDGE project convened in Paramaribo, Suriname, to participate in the annual meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation. Here are the oral and poster presentations that were given as part of the BRIDGE project.
Oral Presentations
- Advances in the study of community assembly: functional traits, phylogenies and species distributions (Christopher Baraloto)
- Diversity of tree species growth responses to canopy openings: A spatially explicit approach (Bruno Hérault, J. Ouallet, Christopher Baraloto, Lilian Blanc, F. Wagner)
- How useful is DNA barcoding for large-scale inventories of tropical trees? (Mailyn Gonzalez, Christopher Baraloto, Julien Engel, Scott A. Mori, Pascal Petronelli, Bernard Riera, Aurelien Roger, C. Thébaud and Jérôme Chave) Winner: Alywn Gentry Award for Best Student Paper
- The phylogenetic structure of tree communities: insights from small inventory plots of tropical forests on different continents (Olivier J. Hardy, J. Eyraud, S. Kouob, I. Parmentier, B.R. Ramesh, B. Senterre)
- Quantifying deviation from neutrality in tropical forests (Franck Jabot and Jérôme Chave)
- New challenges in the functional ecology of tropical forests: insights from the RAINFOR project (Sandra Patiño, Jon Lloyd, Carlos A. Quesada, Romilda Paiva, Lina Mercado, Tim Baker, Oliver Phillips, Yadvinder Malhi and the RAINFOR consortium)
- The effects of forest disturbances on spatial genetic structure in Jacaranda copaia (Ivan Scotti, Thomas Leclerc, Ruppert Vimal, William Montaigne, Valérie Troispoux and Saint‐Omer Cazal)
- Importance of species concept to studying community assembly: genetic delimitations of Amazonian tree species complexes (Ivan Scotti and Caroline Scotti‐Saintagne)
- Testing ecological theories of species coexistence at different scales with tropical forest trees (Jérôme Chave)
Poster Presentations
- Characterization of the volatiles emitted by 31 common tree species in French Guiana: possible implications for plant defense strategies (Elodie Courtois, Didier Stein, Pierre-Alain Blandinieres, Jérôme Chave) Winner: Alywn Gentry Award for Best Student Poster
- Patterns of tree floristic composition in French Guiana (Julien Engel, Daniel Sabatier, Marie-Francoise Prévost, Jean-François Molino, Christopher Baraloto, C. E. Timothy Paine)
- GUYAFOR: a network of research permanent plots of tropical forests in French Guiana (Audrey Jolivot)
- Variation in trunk and branch xylem density in French Guiana (Carolina Sarmiento, Sandra Patiño, Jacques Beauchene, Jérôme Chave, Christopher Baraloto)
