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

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

J4, San Jose McEnery Convention Center

1:30 PM

COS 126-1

The once and future gray whales: DNA evidence for historic population size and past ecosystem impacts
S. Elizabeth Alter, NRDC; Eric Rynes, University of Washington; Stephen R. Palumbi, Stanford University

1:50 PM

COS 126-2

Species lost from Thoreau's Concord
Abraham J. Miller-Rushing, The Wildlife Society and USA National Phenology Network; Richard Primack, Boston University

2:10 PM

COS 126-3

Fine-scale mapping of presettlement fire regimes and vegetation: A new approach
Cecil Frost, University of North Carolina

2:30 PM

COS 126-4

Influence of fire and climate change on vegetation in a mountainous national park
Susan E. Cameron, Harvard University; James H. Thorne, University of California, Davis; Peggy E. Moore, U.S. Geological Survey

2:50 PM

COS 126-5

Impacts 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 PM

COS 126-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 126-6

Using soil phytolith analysis to study 200 years of vegetation and disturbance regime change
Lesley R. Morris, USDA Agricultural Research Service; Ronald J. Ryel, Utah State University

3:40 PM

COS 126-7

Pinyon-juniper woodland dynamics: The role of climate and land use in tree recruitment and growth
Nichole N. Barger, University of Colorado Boulder; Henry Adams, The University of Arizona; Connie Woodhouse, University of Arizona

4:00 PM

COS 126-8

Using 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, McGill University; David J. Mladenoff, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Murray K. Clayton, UW-Madison

4:20 PM

COS 126-9

Forecasting landscape change at the ecoregion scale: Interacting threats from cumulative local-scale processes and large-scale development events
Robert F. Baldwin, Clemson University; Stephen C. Trombulak, Middlebury College

4:40 PM

COS 126-10

Tree 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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