Thursday, August 9, 2007: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
J4, San Jose McEnery Convention Center
COS 126 - Historical ecology, paleoecology, and land-use legacies II
1:30 PMThe once and future gray whales: DNA evidence for historic population size and past ecosystem impacts
S. Elizabeth Alter, Stanford University, Eric Rynes, University of Washington, Stephen R. Palumbi, Stanford University
1:50 PMSpecies lost from Thoreau's Concord
Abraham J. Miller-Rushing, Boston University, Richard B. Primack, Boston University
2:10 PMFine-scale mapping of presettlement fire regimes and vegetation: A new approach
Cecil Frost, University of North Carolina
2:30 PMInfluence of fire and climate change on vegetation in a mountainous national park
Susan E. Cameron, University of California, Davis, James H. Thorne, University of California, Davis, Peggy E. Moore, U.S. Geological Survey
2:50 PMImpacts of fire and timber harvesting on long-term vegetation change in an Australian mixed-species forest
Robyn K. Whipp, Charles Sturt University, Ian D. Lunt, Charles Sturt University, Peter G. Spooner, Charles Sturt University, Ross A. Bradstock, University of Wollongong
3:10 PMBreak
3:20 PMUsing soil phytolith analysis to study 200 years of vegetation and disturbance regime change
Lesley R. Morris, Utah State University, Ronald J. Ryel, Utah State University
3:40 PMPinyon-juniper woodland dynamics: The role of climate and land use in tree recruitment and growth
Nichole N. Barger, University of Colorado, Henry Adams, University of Colorado, Connie Woodhouse, University of Arizona
4:00 PMUsing historical survey records to estimate effects of land use on aboveground live forest biomass in Wisconsin, mid-1800s to 1930s to 2000s
Jeanine M. Rhemtulla, University of Wisconsin-Madison, David J. Mladenoff, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Murray K. Clayton, University of Wisconsin-Madison
4:20 PMForecasting landscape change at the ecoregion scale: Interacting threats from cumulative local-scale processes and large-scale development events
Robert F. Baldwin, Two Countries, One Forest (2C1Forest), Stephen C. Trombulak, Middlebury College
4:40 PMTree rings: Bridging environment and human health
Paolo Cherubini, WSL Swiss Federal Research Institute, Matthias Saurer, PSI Paul Scherrer Institute, Irka Hajdas, ETH Institute for Particle Physics, AMS 14C Lab

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