Session: Fire (94th ESA Annual Meeting (August 2 -- 7, 2009))

8:00 AM

COS 91-1

The influence of fire on the invertebrate community during restoration of a mesquite encroached grassland
Joy L. Newton, West Texas A&M University; Richard T Kazmaier, West Texas A&M University

8:20 AM

COS 91-2

Nitrogen dynamics along a 33-year stand-replacing wildfire chronosequence in southwestern ponderosa pine forests
Valerie J. Kurth, University of Minnesota; Stephen C. Hart, University of California, Merced; Peter Z. Fule, Northern Arizona University; Jason P. Kaye, Pennsylvania State University

8:40 AM

COS 91-3

Snag retention, wildlife usage, and surface fuel deposition following large, stand-replacing wildfires in dry coniferous forests
David W. Peterson, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station; Erich K. Dodson, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station; Richy J. Harrod, USDA Forest Service

9:00 AM

COS 91-4

Contrasting postfire recovery under different climates: California vs Arizona chaparral
Jon E. Keeley, U.S. Geological Survey; C.J. Fotheringham, US Geological Survey

9:20 AM

COS 91-5

Barriers to post-fire regeneration in a Caribbean dry forest
Brett T. Wolfe, Louisiana State University; Skip J. Van Bloem, University of Puerto Rico

9:40 AM

COS 91-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 91-6

Explaining variability in the fire size distribution: Is there a simple solution?
Richard D. Zinck, UFZ, Helmholtz Centre for Ecological Research - UFZ; Mercedes Pascual, University of Michigan,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Santa Fe Institute; Volker Grimm, Helmholtz Centre for Ecological Research - UFZ

10:10 AM

COS 91-7

Effects of El Niño-southern oscillation on fire regime changed over time in northeastern Mexico
Larissa L. Yocom, Northern Arizona University; Peter Z. Fulé, Northern Arizona University; Peter M. Brown, Rocky Mountain Tree-ring Research, Inc.; Julián Cerano, INIFAP CENID-RASPA; José Villanueva-Díaz, INIFAP CENID-RASPA; Eladio Cornejo-Oviedo, Universidad Autónoma Agraria “Antonio Narro”

10:30 AM

COS 91-8

Fire history and fire-climate relationships along an elevation, forest type, and fire regime gradient in a high-profile municipal watershed, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Ellis Q. Margolis, University of Arizona; Jeff Balmat, National Park Service

10:50 AM

COS 91-9

Can global models reproduce the current increase in western United States wildfires and project a reliable future trend?
Dominique Bachelet, Conservation Biology Institute; David Conklin, Conservation Biology Institute; Brendan Rogers, University of California, Irvine; Maureen McGlinchy, Oregon State University; James Lenihan, USDA Forest Service; Ronald P. Neilson, Oregon State University (Courtesy); Ray Drapek, USDA Forest Service

11:10 AM

COS 91-10

Fire regime in a Mexican forest under indigenous resource management
Peter Fule, Northern Arizona University; Mauro Ramos-Gómez, Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas; Citlali Cortés-Montaño, Northern Arizona University; Andrew Miller, University of Manitoba

COS 91 - Fire