ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007)

Thursday, August 9, 2007: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

J3, San Jose McEnery Convention Center

1:30 PM

COS 125-1

Fire-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, Pacific Northwest Research Station; Leslie Boby-Sabatinelli, University of Florida; Michelle Mack, University of Florida; Ted Schuur, University of Florida

1:50 PM

COS 125-2

Early vegetation response to repeated high-severity fire in the Klamath-Siskiyou Mountains, Oregon, USA
Dan C. Donato, Oregon State University; Joseph B. Fontaine, Murdoch University; W. Douglas Robinson, Oregon State University; J. Boone Kauffman, Oregon State University; Beverly E. Law, Oregon State University

2:10 PM

COS 125-3

The 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 PM

COS 125-4

Post-fire succession in a Great Basin pinyon-juniper woodland: Importance of seed source availability and topographic heterogeneity
Lea A. Condon, Oregon State University; Peter J. Weisberg, University of Nevada, Reno; Jeanne C. Chambers, USDA Forest Service

2:50 PM

COS 125-5

Propagule 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

COS 125-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 125-6

Adaptation to fire in the rare Appalachian forest herb Xerophyllum asphodeloides and its implications for forest conservation and management
Norman A. Bourg, Smithsonian Institution - National Zoological Park; Douglas E. Gill, University of Maryland; William J. McShea, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute at the National Zoological Park

3:40 PM

COS 125-8

Effects of fire on nutrient availability in Florida scrub
Jennifer L. Schafer, North Carolina State University; Michelle C. Mack, University of Florida

4:00 PM

COS 125-9

Interactive 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, Oregon State University

4:20 PM

COS 125-10

Experimental 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, Charles Darwin University; Michael M. Douglas, University of Western Australia; Alan N. Andersen, Charles Darwin University

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