Monday, August 2, 2010: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
410, David L Lawrence Convention Center
COS 10 - Fire
1:30 PMCOS 10-1Mixed-severity fire regimes: Quantifying disturbance and stand dynamics in montane forests of British Columbia
Hélène Marcoux, University of British Columbia, Lori D. Daniels, University of British Columbia, Sarah E. Gergel, University of British Columbia, Eric Da Silva, University of Guelph, Ze'ev Gedalof, University of Guelph
1:50 PMCOS 10-2Linking grassland fire-regime shifts to climatic variation of the past 25,000 years: Charcoal records from two east African lakes
Michael A. Urban, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, David M. Nelson, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Dirk Verschuren, Ghent University, Feng Sheng Hu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2:10 PMCOS 10-3Upper thermal tolerance of hydrated seeds from southeastern Australia extends above 1000C and does not differ between wet and dry habitat
Paul B. Thomas, University of Western Sydney, E. Charles Morris, University of Western Sydney, Tony D. Auld, Department of Environment and Climate Change (NSW)
2:30 PMCOS 10-4Short and long term impacts of fire suppression on carbon storage in an old-growth Sierran mixed conifer forest
Andrew E. Scholl, Wittenberg University, Alan H. Taylor, The Pennsylvania State University
2:50 PMCOS 10-5Modeling the effects of alternate post-fire successional trajectories on boreal forest carbon dynamics
Michael M. Loranty, Woods Hole Research Center, Scott Goetz, Woods Hole Research Center, Michelle C. Mack, University of Florida, Heather D. Alexander, University of Florida, Pieter S. A. Beck, Woods Hole Research Center, James T. Randerson, University of California, Irvine
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PMCOS 10-6Meta-analysis of wildlife responses to fire severity, time since fire, and fire surrogates in North American fire-prone forests
Joseph B. Fontaine, Murdoch University, Patricia L. Kennedy, Oregon State University
3:40 PMCOS 10-7Pre-fire successional status strongly impacts aspen regeneration success following fire
Sam St.Clair, Brigham Young University, Eric Smith, Brigham Young University
4:00 PMCOS 10-8Fine scale mechanisms and effects of fire grazing interactions
Brady W. Allred, Oklahoma State University, Samuel D. Fuhlendorf, Oklahoma State University
4:20 PMCOS 10-9Fire history, serotiny, and seed dispersal cuing in a rare California cypress
Chris R. Mallek, University of California, Davis
4:40 PMCOS 10-10Sensitivity of the fire-dependent species Tecate cypress to fire frequency, fragmentation, and connectivity among patches
Susana Rodríguez-Buriticá, University of California, Berkeley, Katharine N. Suding, University of California at Berkeley

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