Thursday, August 6, 2009: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Sendero Blrm I, Hyatt
COS 91 - Fire
8:00 AMThe influence of fire on the invertebrate community during restoration of a mesquite encroached grassland
Joy L. Newton, West Texas A&M University, Richard T Kazmaier, West Texas A&M University
8:20 AMNitrogen dynamics along a 33-year stand-replacing wildfire chronosequence in southwestern ponderosa pine forests
Valerie J. Kurth, Northern Arizona University, Stephen C. Hart, University of California, Merced, Peter Z. Fule, Northern Arizona University, Jason P. Kaye, Pennsylvania State University
8:40 AMSnag retention, wildlife usage, and surface fuel deposition following large, stand-replacing wildfires in dry coniferous forests
David W. Peterson, USDA Forest Service, Erich K. Dodson, USDA Forest Service, Richy J. Harrod, USDA Forest Service
9:00 AMContrasting postfire recovery under different climates: California vs Arizona chaparral
Jon E. Keeley, US Geological Survey, C.J. Fotheringham, US Geological Survey
9:20 AMBarriers to post-fire regeneration in a Caribbean dry forest
Brett T. Wolfe, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, Skip J. Van Bloem, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
9:40 AMBreak
9:50 AMExplaining variability in the fire size distribution: Is there a simple solution?
Richard D. Zinck, UFZ, Helmholtz Centre for Ecological Research - UFZ, Mercedes Pascual, University of Michigan AND Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Volker Grimm, UFZ, Helmholtz Centre for Ecological Research - UFZ
10:10 AMEffects of El Niño-southern oscillation on fire regime changed over time in northeastern Mexico
Larissa L. Yocom, Northern Arizona University, Peter Z. Fulé, Northern Arizona University, Peter M. Brown, Rocky Mountain Tree-ring Research, Inc., Julián Cerano, INIFAP CENID-RASPA, José Villanueva-Díaz, INIFAP CENID-RASPA, Eladio Cornejo-Oviedo, Universidad Autónoma Agraria “Antonio Narro”
10:30 AMFire history and fire-climate relationships along an elevation, forest type, and fire regime gradient in a high-profile municipal watershed, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Ellis Q. Margolis, University of Arizona, Jeff Balmat, National Park Service
10:50 AMCan global models reproduce the current increase in western United States wildfires and project a reliable future trend?
Dominique Bachelet, Oregon State University, David Conklin, Oregon State University, Brendan Rogers, Oregon State University, Maureen McGlinchy, Oregon State University, James Lenihan, USDA Forest Service, Ronald P. Neilson, USDA Forest Service, Ray Drapek, USDA Forest Service
11:10 AMFire regime in a Mexican forest under indigenous resource management
Peter Fule, Northern Arizona University, Mauro Ramos-Gómez, Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas, Citlali Cortés-Montaño, Northern Arizona University, Andrew Miller, University of Manitoba

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