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

COS 10 - Landscape Ecology

Monday, August 3, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Sendero Blrm III, Hyatt
Presider:
Paul F. Hessburg
1:30 PM
CANCELLED - Scenarios of future land use change and forest carbon in Massachusetts
Jonathan R. Thompson, Harvard University; David R. Foster, Harvard University; David Kittredge, University of Massachusetts
1:50 PM
Fractal vegetative landscapes and resilience: Empirical evidence from fire-prone systems
Paul F. Hessburg, USDA-FS, Pacific Northwest Research Station; Nicholas A. Povak, USDA-FS, Pacific Southwest Research Station
2:10 PM
Consequences of a changing fire regime in the Southwest: How do ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forests recover?
Sandra L. Haire, University of Massachusetts; Kevin McGarigal, University of Massachusetts
2:30 PM
Topographic drivers of mixed-severity fire regime attributes in Douglas-fir forests of the central western Cascade Mountains of Oregon
Alan J. Tepley, University of Colorado; Frederick J. Swanson, USDA Forest Service, Pacific NW Research Station; Thomas A. Spies, USDA Forest Service
2:50 PM
Seedling establishment in a subalpine parkland landscape: Topographic, seed source, climatic, and disturbance controls
Harold Zald, Oregon State University; Thomas A. Spies, USDA Forest Service; Manuela Huso, Oregon State University; Demetrios Gatziolis, USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
A meta-analysis of connectivity metrics: Comparing binary and complex landscapes
James I. Watling, University of Florida; A. Justin Nowakowski, Florida International University
3:40 PM
Potential future effects of climate change, management, and disturbance on multi-species wildlife habitat suitability and vulnerability in Olympic National Park, WA, USA
Rebecca S.H. Kennedy, USDA Forest Service; Rachel Loehman, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station; Robert E. Keane, US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station Missoula Fire Sciences Lab
4:00 PM
Long-term impacts of climate changes on wildlife habitat in Glacier National Park, Montana:  Simulating complex interactions among climate, vegetation, and wildfire
Rachel Loehman, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station; Rebecca S.H. Kennedy, USDA Forest Service; Robert E. Keane, US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station Missoula Fire Sciences Lab
4:20 PM
Influence of landscape composition, deer density, and deer harvest  on home-ranges of white-tailed deer in a chronic wasting disease area
Seth B. Magle, Lincoln Park Zoo; Lesa Kardash, University of Wisconsin- Madison; Anne Oyer, University of Wisconsin; Jeromy Chamberlin, University of Wisconsin; Nancy Mathews, University of Wisconsin-Madison
4:40 PM
Local winter white-tailed deer density: Effects of forest cover pattern, stand structure, and snow in a managed forest landscape
James D. A. Millington, Michigan State University; Michael B. Walters, Michigan State University; Megan S. Matonis, Michigan State University; Jianguo Liu, Michigan State University