Session: Fire ecology (ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007))

PS 28-44

Effect of brush mastication on mycorrhizas and hypogeous fungi in mixed hardwood chaparral
Jessica M. Donohue, Southern Oregon University; Jonathan L. Frank, Southern Oregon University; Darlene Southworth, Southern Oregon University; Jennifer Gibson, Whiskeytown National Recreation Area

PS 28-45

Influence of woody competition and military disturbance on the federally endangered Michaux’s sumac (Rhus michauxii) at Fort Pickett, Virginia
Verl R. Emrick, Virginia Tech; Jeff Jones, Virginia Tech

PS 28-46

Fire severity influences on cavity nester density and habitat selection in burned ponderosa pine forests
Kerri T. Vierling, University of Idaho; Leigh B. Lentile, University of Idaho; Nicole Nielsen-Pincus, University of Idaho

PS 28-47

Effects of post-fire logging on plant communities in western Montana
Paul Alaback, University of Montana; Kristine Lee, University of Montana

PS 28-48

Natural recovery processes following wildland fire in high quality sagebrush steppe rangeland in southeastern Idaho
Roger D. Blew, Idaho National Laboratory; Amy D. Forman, Idaho National Laboratory; Jackie R. Hafla, Idaho National Laboratory; Mike Pellant, Bureau of Land Management; Robert D. Jones, U.S. Department of Energy

PS 28-49

Fire history of the grassland/forest ecotone at the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, Osage County, Oklahoma
Matthew S. Allen, Oklahoma State University; Michael W. Palmer, Oklahoma State University

PS 28-50

Re-introduction of fire for longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) forest restoration at Horseshoe Bend National Military Park
Sharon M. Hermann, Auburn University; John Kush, Auburn University; John C. Gilbert, Auburn University; Lisa McInnis, National Park Service; Caroline Noble, National Park Service

PS 28-51

Effects of fire on the structure of two old-growth longleaf pine stands in the mountains of Alabama, USA
John C. Gilbert, Auburn University; John Kush, Auburn University

PS 28-52

Comparison of pyric properties in southeastern Quercus spp litter: Insight into fire management and restoration
J. Morgan Varner III, Mississippi State University; Jeffrey M. Kane, Humboldt State University; J. Kevin Hiers, Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center

PS 28-53

The effects of bison grazing and fire on tall grass prairie heterogeneity
Christopher S. McLaughlin, Sitting Bull College; Anthony Joern, Kansas State University

PS 28-54

Understory and propagule bank change four and five years after low intensity prescribed burns in a mesic white pine forest
Bobbie J. Webster, University of Wisconsin Stevens Point

PS 28-55

Fine-scale heterogeneity in fuels, fire behavior, and effects in a low-intensity surface fire regime
J. Kevin Hiers, Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center; Joseph J. O'Brien, USDA Forest Service; Robert J. Mitchell, Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center; E. Louise Loudermilk, University of Florida; Wendell P. Cropper Jr., University of Florida; K. Clint Slatton, University of Florida

PS 28-56

Fire management, dry fruits availability, and the abundance of a macaw species in central Brazilian savannas
Darius P. Tubelis, University of São Paulo

PS 28-57

Fuel loads and potential fire behavior within sub-alpine dry forests on Mauna Kea Volcano, Hawaii
Jarrod M. Thaxton, Eastern Kentucky University; James D. Jacobi, U.S. Geological Survey

PS 28 - Fire ecology