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Speaker: Kauane Bordin Title: The role of disturbance in shaping demographic trade-offs in temperate tree species Abstract: The species life-history strategies emerge from ecological and evolutionary constraints, where organisms allocate limited resources to growth, survival, and reproduction, resulting in trade-offs such as the growth-survival trade-off. To understand how such trade-offs shape community assembly, we must consider the role of disturbance in determining which species establish and persist. To address these questions, we investigated how past disturbances shape the growth-survival trade-off by comparing early and late developmental forest stands across the United States. Using large-scale sampling, we captured growth and survival data for dominant temperate tree species within their realized distributions and niche spaces. We discuss the dominant role of past disturbance events in filtering life-history strategies across forest stands and the potential risk of increasing forest disturbances disrupting this trade-off in temperate forests.