Session: Fire (2019 ESA Annual Meeting (August 11 -- 16))

8:00 AM

A sixteen-year record of exotic plant dynamics, following deliberate introduction from post-fire seeding and subsequent re-burn, in a southwestern ponderosa pine-mixed conifer forest
Jens Stevens, US Geological Survey; Rebecca W. Oertel, Valles Caldera Trust; Kay L. Beeley, Bandelier National Monument; Collin Haffey, The Nature Conservancy; Craig D. Allen, New Mexico Landscapes Field Station

8:20 AM Cancelled

COS 104-2

Using historical MODIS hotspots to empirically characterize fire regimes across the globe (widthdrawn)
William Hargrove, USDA Forest Service, Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center; Jitendra Kumar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Steve Norman, US Forest Service Southern Research Station; Forrest Hoffman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

8:40 AM

COS 104-3

Effects of frequent fire and mowing on resprouting shrubs in Florida scrub
Eric S. Menges, Archbold Biological Station; Stacy A. Smith, University of Florida; Jose Olano, Universidad de Valladolid; Jennifer Schafer, Winthrop University; Gretel Clarke, Archbold Biological Station; Kevin Main, Archbold Biological Station

9:00 AM

COS 104-4

Mesophication of upland oak forests: Shifting species composition alters fuelbed flammability
Jennifer K. McDaniel, Mississippi State University; Heather D. Alexander, Mississippi State University; Courtney M. Siegert, Mississippi State University; Marcus A Lashley, Mississippi State University

9:20 AM

COS 104-5

Fuel load manipulations influence prescribed fire intensity and severity in an experimentally restored Kentucky bluegrass savanna-woodland
James Shaffer, University of Kentucky; Scott Gleeson, University of Kentucky; John M. Lhotka, University of Kentucky; John J. Cox, University of Kentucky

9:40 AM

COS 104-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 104-6

Burning questions: The role of wildfire severity on plant function through disruptions of plant-soil interactions
Kendall Beals, University of Tennessee; Joseph K. Bailey, University of Tennessee; Jennifer A. Schweitzer, University of Tennessee

10:10 AM

COS 104-7

Wildfire response to climate warming in the Sierra Nevada assessed using daily weather and burned area observations
Aurora A. Gutierrez, University of California, Irvine; Stijn Hantson, University of California, Irvine; Michael Goulden, University of California, Irvine; Baird Langenbrunner, University of California, Irvine; Yufang Jin, University of California, Davis; Bin Chen, University of California, Davis; James T. Randerson, University of California, Irvine

10:30 AM

COS 104-8

Fire impacts on oak acorn germination and early establishment and oak seedling growth relative to co-occurring competitors
Heather D. Alexander, Mississippi State University; Rachel Nation, Mississippi State University; Brian Izbicki, Northern Arizona University; Jennifer K. McDaniel, Mississippi State University; Alison Paulson, Mississippi State University; Marcus A Lashley, Mississippi State University; Courtney M. Siegert, Mississippi State University; Ryan McEwan, University of Dayton; Brent R. Frey, Mississippi State University; Geoff Denny, Mississippi State University; Andrew I. Berry, Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest

10:50 AM

COS 104-9

Safe sites and seed sources: Searching for drivers of post-fire larch (Larix cajanderi) regeneration in northeastern Siberia
Eric B. Borth, University of Dayton; Heather D. Alexander, Mississippi State University; Ryan W. McEwan, University of Dayton

COS 104 - Fire