COS 99
Fire

Thursday, August 14, 2014: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Regency Blrm F, Hyatt Regency Hotel
8:00 AM
 Pikas under fire: Responses to disturbance
Johanna Varner, University of Utah; Mallory S. Lambert, University of Utah; Joshua J. Horns, University of Utah; Erik A. Beever, U.S. Geological Survey; M. Denise Dearing, University of Utah
8:40 AM
 Avian community responses to post-fire habitat conditions: Implications for fire management
Angela M. White, US Forest Service; Patricia N. Manley, USDA Forest Service; Gina L. Tarbill, USDA Forest Service; T. Will Richardson, Tahoe Institute for Natural Science; Robin E. Russell, U S Geological Survey; Hugh D. Safford, Regional Ecologist, USDA Forest Service; Solomon Dobrowski, University of Montana
9:00 AM
 Fire activity and severity vary along proxy gradients representing fuel amount and fuel moisture in the western US
Sean A. Parks, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station; Marc-André Parisien, Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service; Carol Miller, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station; Solomon Dobrowski, University of Montana
9:20 AM
 Spatial patterns of fire severity and vegetation structure in multiple wildland fuel treatments surrounding the WUI in the 2011 Wallow Fire
Maureen C. Kennedy, University of Washington; Morris C. Johnson, Pacific Northwest Research Station
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
 Does plant meristem number limit post-fire resprouting?
Stephanie N. Hollingsworth, North Carolina State University; Matthew G. Hohmann, US Army Corps of Engineers ERDC - CERL; William A. Hoffmann, North Carolina State University
10:10 AM
 Post-fire tree recruitment in the U.S. Northern Rockies: The influence of seed source proximity and environmental conditions
Kerry B. Kemp, University of Idaho; Philip E. Higuera, University of Idaho; Penelope Morgan, University of Idaho
10:30 AM
 Serotiny and resilience to fire in the context of a warming climate and altered disturbance regimes: Who are the winners and losers?
Brian Justin Buma, University of Alaska Southeast; Carissa D. Brown, Memorial University; Jill F. Johnstone, University of Saskatchewan; Joseph B. Fontaine, Murdoch University; Daniel C. Donato, Washington State Department of Natural Resources
10:50 AM
 Abrupt regime shifts and non-equilibrium dynamics in Mediterranean ecosystems: The interplay of changing environments and fire-vegetation feedbacks
Enric Batllori, UC Berkeley; David D. Ackerly, University of California; Max A. Moritz, University of California, Berkeley
11:10 AM
 Vegetation structure and microclimate influence on fire spread along an ecotonal gradient
Michael G. Just, North Carolina State University; Matthew G. Hohmann, US Army Corps of Engineers ERDC - CERL; William A. Hoffmann, North Carolina State University
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