Thursday, August 9, 2007: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
J3, San Jose McEnery Convention Center
COS 125 - Fire ecology III
1:30 PMCOS 125-1Fire-driven changes in Alaskan black spruce forests: Regeneration sensitivity to surface fuel consumption
Jill F. Johnstone, University of Saskatchewan, Terry Chapin, University of Alaska, Teresa N. Hollingsworth, USDA Forest Service, Leslie Boby, University of Florida, Michelle Mack, University of Florida, Ted Schuur, University of Florida
1:50 PMCOS 125-2Early vegetation response to repeated high-severity fire in the Klamath-Siskiyou Mountains, Oregon, USA
Dan C. Donato, Oregon State University, Joseph B. Fontaine, Oregon State University, W. Douglas Robinson, Oregon State University, J. Boone Kauffman, Oregon State University, Beverly E. Law, Oregon State University
2:10 PMCOS 125-3The effects of fire in the regeneration of a Quercus douglasii stand in Quail Ridge Reserve (California)
José Ramón Arévalo, Universidad de La Laguna, Pelayo Álvarez, University of California, Nelmi Narvaez, University of California, Kenny Walker, Natural Reserve System-John Muir Institute of the Environment
2:30 PMCOS 125-4Post-fire succession in a Great Basin pinyon-juniper woodland: Importance of seed source availability and topographic heterogeneity
Lea A. Condon, University of Nevada, Reno, Peter J. Weisberg, University of Nevada, Reno, Jeanne C. Chambers, USDA Forest Service
2:50 PMCOS 125-5Propagule and nutrient limitations on vegetation recovery after high severity wildfire in dry coniferous forests
David W. Peterson, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Erich K. Dodson, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PMCOS 125-6Adaptation to fire in the rare Appalachian forest herb Xerophyllum asphodeloides and its implications for forest conservation and management
Norman A. Bourg, Smithsonian Institution/University of Maryland - College Park, Douglas E. Gill, University of Maryland, William J. McShea, Smithsonian Institution - National Zoological Park
3:40 PMCOS 125-8Effects of fire on nutrient availability in Florida scrub
Jennifer L. Schafer, University of Florida, Michelle C. Mack, University of Florida
4:00 PMCOS 125-9Interactive influences of repeated fires and non-native species on plant community succession at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
Alison Ainsworth, Oregon State University, J. Boone Kauffman, Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry, USDA Forest Service
4:20 PMCOS 125-10Experimental fire regimes and understory species composition in a tropical savanna in northern Australia
Kenneth A. Scott, Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre and Charles Darwin University, Samantha A. Setterfield, Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre and Charles Darwin University, Michael M. Douglas, Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre and Charles Darwin University, Alan N. Andersen, Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre and CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems

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