COS 112 - Fire I

Wednesday, August 9, 2017: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
B116, Oregon Convention Center
1:30 PM
 Forest management and wildfire under alternate climate futures in eastern Oregon
Brooke A. Cassell, Portland State University; Robert M. Scheller, Portland State University; E. Louise Loudermilk, USDA Forest Service; Matthew D. Hurteau, University of New Mexico
1:50 PM
 Who sticks and who twists: Functional responses of African savanna grass species to grazing and fire during El NiƱo related drought events
Jason E Donaldson, University of the Witwatersrand; Sally Archibald, CSIR; Catherine Parr, University of Liverpool
2:10 PM
 Variability in modern fire-climate relationships across boreal forest and arctic tundra biomes
Adam M. Young, University of Idaho; Philip Higuera, University of Montana; John Abatzoglou, University of Idaho; Luigi Boschetti, University of Idaho; Paul Duffy, Neptune and Company, Inc.; Feng Sheng Hu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2:30 PM
 Connectivity for forest wildlife in the face of a fiery future
Karen Hodges, University of British Columbia Okanagan; Carmen Vanbianchi, University of British Columbia Okanagan; Jenna Hutchen, University of British Columbia Okanagan; Logan Volkmann, University of British Columbia Okanagan
2:50 PM
 Human-ignited fires at the wildland-urban interface: Consequences and costs
Nathan Mietkiewicz, University of Colorado-Boulder; Jennifer K. Balch, University of Colorado Boulder; Tania Schoennagel, University of Colorado-Boulder; Bethany A. Bradley, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Lise St. Denis, University of Colorado at Boulder
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
 Turning down the heat: Vegetation feedbacks limit fire regime responses to global warming
Jean Marchal, Laval University; Steven G. Cumming, University Laval; Eliot J. B. McIntire, Natural Resources Canada
3:40 PM
 Post-fire tree mortality: Heating increases vulnerability to cavitation in longleaf pine branches and roots
Alexandra G. Lodge, Texas A&M University; Kathleen L. Kavanagh, Texas A&M University; Matthew B. Dickinson, US Forest Service
4:00 PM
 Disentangling the drivers of wildfire severity in a multi-owner forest landscape, Oregon, USA
Harold Zald, Humboldt State University; Christopher Dunn, Oregon State University
4:20 PM
 Human influence on large fires across ecoregions of the U.S
R. Chelsea Nagy, University of Colorado Boulder; Jennifer K. Balch, University of Colorado Boulder; Bethany A. Bradley, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Emily J. Fusco, University of Massachusetts; John Abatzoglou, University of Idaho
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