Monday, August 3, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Sendero Blrm III, Hyatt
COS 10 - Landscape Ecology
1:30 PMCOS 10-1CANCELLED - Scenarios of future land use change and forest carbon in Massachusetts
Jonathan R. Thompson, Harvard University, David R. Foster, Harvard University, David Kittredge, University of Massachusetts
1:50 PMCOS 10-2Fractal vegetative landscapes and resilience: Empirical evidence from fire-prone systems
Paul F. Hessburg, USDA-FS, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Nicholas A. Povak, USDA-FS, Pacific Northwest Research Station
2:10 PMCOS 10-3Consequences of a changing fire regime in the Southwest: How do ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forests recover?
Sandra L. Haire, University of Massachusetts, Kevin McGarigal, University of Massachusetts
2:30 PMCOS 10-4Topographic drivers of mixed-severity fire regime attributes in Douglas-fir forests of the central western Cascade Mountains of Oregon
Alan J. Tepley, Oregon State University, Frederick J. Swanson, USDA Forest Service, Pacific NW Research Station, Thomas A. Spies, USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station
2:50 PMCOS 10-5Seedling establishment in a subalpine parkland landscape: Topographic, seed source, climatic, and disturbance controls
Harold Zald, Oregon State University, Thomas A. Spies, USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, Manuela Huso, Oregon State University, Demetrios Gatziolis, USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PMCOS 10-6A meta-analysis of connectivity metrics: Comparing binary and complex landscapes
James I. Watling, Washington University in St Louis, A. Justin Nowakowski, Florida International University
3:40 PMCOS 10-7Potential future effects of climate change, management, and disturbance on multi-species wildlife habitat suitability and vulnerability in Olympic National Park, WA, USA
Rebecca S.H. Kennedy, U.S.D.A. Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Rachel Loehman, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Robert E. Keane, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
4:00 PMCOS 10-8Long-term impacts of climate changes on wildlife habitat in Glacier National Park, Montana:  Simulating complex interactions among climate, vegetation, and wildfire
Rachel Loehman, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Rebecca S.H. Kennedy, U.S.D.A. Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Robert E. Keane, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
4:20 PMCOS 10-9Influence of landscape composition, deer density, and deer harvest  on home-ranges of white-tailed deer in a chronic wasting disease area
Seth B. Magle, University of Wisconsin, Lesa Kardash, University of Wisconsin- Madison, Anne Oyer, University of Wisconsin, Jeromy Chamberlin, University of Wisconsin, Nancy Mathews, University of Wisconsin-Madison
4:40 PMCOS 10-10Local winter white-tailed deer density: Effects of forest cover pattern, stand structure, and snow in a managed forest landscape
James D. A. Millington, Michigan State University, Michael B. Walters, Michigan State University, Megan S. Matonis, Michigan State University, Jianguo Liu, Michigan State University

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