CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 
Island Forests:  
The Urban and Natural Interface 
11th Caribbean Urban & Community Forestry Conference  
St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands  June 19-22, 2006 
Abstracts Due Wednesday, April 19, 2006 
 
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1. Use black 12 point size type  
2. Capitalize title and name of person presenting paper 
3. Address directly follows final author’s name, include Postal code and E-mail address 
4. Start text of abstract on a new line, without indentation 
5. Text of abstract is limited to 250 words 
 
Submit Abstracts electronically via E-mail to: tzimmer@uvi.edu   The abstract will be used directly as it is 
received for the conference Program & Abstracts booklet.  (Faxed copies don’t arrive clearly enough for this 
purpose.)   
When submitting via E-mail, include the above information and abstract in the body of the E-mail message.  
Specify in the subject ‘Abstract CUCFC’   Do Not Send Abstracts as Attachments to E-mail.   
Acknowledgement of receipt of abstract will be sent with the guidelines for manuscripts and the time allotted 
for the presentation, to all authors submitting abstracts.  
An example of a formatted abstract follows: 
 
GROWTH AND PHENOLOGY OF OUTPLANTED TREE SEEDLINGS 
BRIAN F. DALEY and T.W. Zimmerman, University of the Virgin Islands, Agriculture 
Experiment Station, RR 1 Box 10,000, Kingshill, VI 00850.  Email:bdaley@uvi.edu 
 
Native tree seedlings were established at the experiment station of the University of the Virgin 
Islands without supplemental watering.  Ninety eight seedlings from 11 taxa were established 
and survivorship and growth were monitored for 30 months.  Phenology and incidence of insect 
and other damage was recorded.  Average height and monthly growth rates varied greatly among 
species, the tallest being Guazuma ulmifolia at 564 cm and Guaiacum officinale the shortest at 
139 m.  Survivorship was generally high among all species as only 8 of the 100 trees died and no 
genus lost more than one individual.  Growth data was plotted against rainfall data and showed 
that months with high rainfall, such as and May and November of 2003 caused an abrupt spike in 
growth for the rapid growing Cedrela odorata, Cordia rickseckeri and G. ulmifolia.  Periods of 
extended drought in the summer of 2002 and 2003 caused a severe reduction and even negative 
growth in most species.  C. odorata, G. ulmifolia and Hura crepitans were also affected by 
severe insect infestation.  Five of the eleven species produced fruit with viable seeds within two 
years of outplanting.  These data will be valuable to those selecting native tree species for 
restoration and urban forestry projects.