Session: Fire Management (97th ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10, 2012))

8:00 AM

The fate of sub-adult trees trapped in the demographic bottleneck of mesic savannas: Interaction of size, fire season, and grassy understorey determine tree survival, growth, and transition to canopy and ultimately savanna physiognomy
Patricia A. Werner, Australian National University

8:20 AM

COS 187-2

Exogenously constrained dynamic percolation shows a phase transition in landscape controls of low-severity fire regimes
Maureen C. Kennedy, University of Washington; Donald McKenzie, US Forest Service

8:40 AM

COS 187-3

Fire interval effects on persistence of woody plants in Mediterranean shrublands of Western Australia
Joseph B. Fontaine, Murdoch University; Neal J. Enright, Murdoch University; Vanessa Westcott, University of Melbourne; Janneke Lade, University of Melbourne; Ben P. Miller, Botanical Parks and Garden Authority of Western Australia

9:00 AM

COS 187-4

Type and seasonal timing of damage influence numbers of resprouting stems and biomass of juvenile Quercus nigra (water oak)
Tracy L. Hmielowski, Louisiana State University; Kevin Robertson, Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy; William J. Platt, Louisiana State University

9:20 AM

COS 187-5

Pre-fire fuel treatments impact fuel loadings 9 years after a large wildfire
Camille Stevens-Rumann, University of Idaho; Kristen L. Shive, Northern Arizona University; Peter Z. Fulé, Northern Arizona University; Carolyn Hull Sieg, USDA FS

9:40 AM

COS 187-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 187-6

Influence of Armillaria root disease on potential fire behavior in an eastern Washington ponderosa pine forest
Nathan G. Johnson, University of Washington; Robert Edmonds, University of Washington

10:10 AM

COS 187-7

One if by stem, two if by leaf: Bark beetle and defoliator impacts on tree mortality and surface fuels in Pacific Northwest forests
Garrett W. Meigs, Oregon State University; Robert Kennedy, Boston University

10:30 AM

COS 187-8

Optimal fire histories for conserving biodiversity
Luke T. Kelly, The University of Melbourne; Andrew F. Bennett, Deakin University; Michael F. Clarke, La Trobe University; Michael A. McCarthy, The University of Melbourne

10:50 AM

COS 187-9

Evaluating fuel treatment efficacy on Arizona’s largest wildfire
Morris C. Johnson, Pacific Northwest Research Station; Maureen C. Kennedy, University of Washington; David Peterson, U.S. Forest Service

11:10 AM

COS 187-10

Fire effects on the resprouting and total nonstructural carbohydrates of the highly invasive oriental bittersweet
Noel B. Pavlovic, U.S. Geological Survey; Stacey A. Leicht-Young, U.S. Geological Survey; Ralph Grundel, U.S. Geological Survey

COS 187 - Fire Management