AGENDA

Hubbard Brook Quarterly Project Meeting

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Co-leaders: Bob Fahey and John Battles

April 30, 2025

10:00 a.m. – 3:00 pm (Eastern)

Forest ecosystem dynamics in a changing world: Can we build a conceptual model for HBES informed
by community assembly rules post-disturbance?

10:00 – 10:15 Welcome and Introductions

(SCC Chairs: Lynn Christenson & Christy Goodale)

10:15 – 10:45 Overview of Disturbance Theory for Ecosystem Ecologists

(Bob Fahey)

10:45 – 11:15 Discussion: Novel Disturbance and Forest Reorganization (Seidl and Turner 2022)

(Facilitator: Bob Fahey)

11:15 – 11:30 Disturbance theory applied: 30 years of forest dynamics in the Bird Lines

(Nat Cleavitt)

11:30 – 11:45 Challenges in using community assembly as an HBES conceptual model

(John Battles)

11:45 – 12:30 Discussion: Can disturbance theory serve as the HBES conceptual model?

(Facilitators: Bob Fahey and John Battles)

12:30 – 1:30 Lunch Break (breakout groups)

1:30 – 3:00 (in process)

(Lynn and Christy programming for business meeting and future of HBES discussion)