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<div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Dear all,<br>
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Please join us for an NCEAS Roundtable tomorrow (Wednesday, June
18th) at 12:15 pm.</span><br>
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</font><font>Dr. Stephanie Pau<br>
</font><font><font><font>Assistant Professor<br>
Florida State University<br>
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</font><font><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">will
present a seminar on:<br>
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"The response of tropical forests to changes in cloud cover"<b
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Abstract:<br>
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style="font-size:10pt;" dir="ltr"><font face="Cambria" size="3"><span
style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span
style="font-size:11pt;">Tropical forests are incredibly
dynamic, exhibiting both rapid and long-term changes in
growth, mortality, reproductive activity, and primary
productivity.</span></font><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span
style="font-size:11pt;"> </span></font><font
face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Cloud
cover and light availability have been shown to strongly
influence tropical forests, however, at the ecosystem
scale the competing effects of light, temperature and
precipitation have been difficult to assess.</span></font><font
face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> </span></font><font
face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">In
this talk I will present work using satellite measures
of cloud cover to compare the response of seasonally dry
and wet tropical forests from three regions, the
Hawaiian Islands, U.S.A., Barro Colorado Island, Panama,
and Luquillo, Puerto Rico.</span></font><font
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Everyone is welcome to attend. <br>
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