95th ESA Annual Meeting (August 1 -- 6, 2010)

Monday, August 2, 2010: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

410, David L Lawrence Convention Center

Presider:

William T. Sommers, George Mason University

1:30 PM

COS 10-1

Mixed-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 PM

COS 10-2

Linking 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 at Urbana-Champaign

2:10 PM

COS 10-3

Upper 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 PM

COS 10-4

Short 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 PM

COS 10-5

Modeling the effects of alternate post-fire successional trajectories on boreal forest carbon dynamics
Michael M. Loranty, Colgate University; Scott Goetz, Woods Hole Research Center; Michelle C. Mack, University of Florida; Heather D. Alexander, University of Texas at Brownsville; Pieter S. A. Beck, Woods Hole Research Center; James T. Randerson, University of California, Irvine

3:10 PM

COS 10-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 10-6

Meta-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 PM

COS 10-7

Pre-fire successional status strongly impacts aspen regeneration success following fire
Sam St.Clair, Brigham Young University; Eric Smith, Brigham Young University

4:00 PM

COS 10-8

Fine scale mechanisms and effects of fire grazing interactions
Brady W. Allred, Oklahoma State University; Samuel D. Fuhlendorf, Oklahoma State University

4:20 PM

COS 10-9

Fire history, serotiny, and seed dispersal cuing in a rare California cypress
Chris R. Mallek, University of California, Davis

4:40 PM

COS 10-10

Sensitivity of the fire-dependent species Tecate cypress to fire frequency, fragmentation, and connectivity among patches
Susana Rodríguez-Buriticá, University of Arizona; Katharine N. Suding, University of California at Berkeley

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