Thursday, August 9, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
C1&2, San Jose McEnery Convention Center
COS 108 - Fire ecology II
8:00 AMCOS 108-1Understory vegetation response to mechanical mastication treatments: Evidence for increasing resilience to wildfire in a young ponderosa pine forest
Jeffrey M. Kane, Humboldt State University, J. Morgan Varner, Humboldt State University, Eric E. Knapp, USDA Forest Service
8:20 AMCOS 108-2Effects of forest fuel reduction on fire severity and long-term carbon dynamics across three Pacific Northwest ecosystems
Stephen R. Mitchell, Oregon State University, Mark E. Harmon, Oregon State University, Kari E. B. O'Connell, Oregon State University
8:40 AMCOS 108-3After the Biscuit Fire: Does wildfire meet our dead wood goals?
Diane E. White, Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, Patricia A. Martinez, Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest
9:00 AMCOS 108-4Logging exacerbates the effects of fire exclusion on stand density in ponderosa pine forests of the Northern Rockies over the long term
Cameron E. Naficy, University of Montana, Anna Sala, University of Montana
9:20 AMCOS 108-5Leaf litter chemistry affects fire behavior in eastern deciduous forests
Aaron D. Stottlemyer, Clemson University, Silviculture and Ecology Laboratory, Patrick H. Brose, US Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station, Forestry Sciences Laboratory, G. Geoff Wang, Clemson University, Silviculture and Ecology Laboratory, Thomas A. Waldrop, US Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Center for Forest Disturbance Science
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AMCOS 108-6Correcting for spatial autocorrelation in statistical tests: Ways to deal with low-replication field experiments
Jacob F. Pollock, University of California, Dan Doak, University of California
10:10 AMCOS 108-7Seasons within the wildfire season: Marking weather-related fire occurrence regimes
Scot D. Johnson, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Randy G. Balice, Los Alamos National Laboratory
10:30 AMCOS 108-8Quantifying the multiscale environmental controls on wildfire using species distribution models
Marc-André Parisien, University of California, Berkeley, Max A. Moritz, University of California, Berkeley
10:50 AMCOS 108-9Linking fire to climate in the Florida Everglades using cellular automata, evolutionary algorithms, and empirical likelihood
Brian Beckage, University of Vermont, Scott Duke-Sylvester, Emory University, Louis Gross, University of Tennessee, Chris Ellingwood, University of Vermont

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