Oral Session #35: Fire Ecology.

Presiding: J.K. Bailey, Northern Arizona University.
Monday, August 7, 2000
1:00 PM to 5:15 PM
Cottonwood Room IV - Sports Event Center

1:00 PM	Reconstructing attributes of pre-Euroamerican settlement fire at a watershed scale, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. CAPRIO, A.C.
1:15 PM	Arizona pine stand dynamics: Local and regional factors in a fire-prone Madrean gallery forest. BARTON, A.M. , T.W. SWETNAM, C.H. BAISAN
1:30 PM	Cambial heat resistance in understory trees in Californian mixed conifer forests . VAN MANTGEM, P. , M.W. SCHWARTZ
1:45 PM	Forest litter densities under different canopy species in the mixed conifer forest of the southern Sierra Nevada-a factor affecting ground fire spread? MENNING, K.M. , J.J. BATTLES, T.L. BENNING, N.L. STEPHENSON
2:00 PM	Fire behavior and impact of fire on tree juvenile growth and mortality in a dry deciduous forest of central India. SAHA, S.
2:15 PM	Experimental studies of fire temperature on oak ( Quercus) seed germination in Appalachian mixed-oak litter. RICCARDI, C.L. , B.C. MCCARTHY
2:30 PM	Wound characteristics in common Central Hardwoods trees after prescribed burning. KENNEDY SUTHERLAND, E. , K.T. SMITH
2:45 PM	Effects of deciduous and conifer fuels on predicted fire extinction in the mixedwood boreal forest. DICKINSON, M.B. , E.A. JOHNSON
3:00 PM	Break
3:15 PM	Predicting patterns of lodgepole pine serotiny across the Yellowstone landscape. TINKER, D.B. , M.G. TURNER, W.H. ROMME
3:30 PM	The role of topography in determining re-burned areas in two large Rocky Mountain wilderness areas . ROLLINS, M.G. , T.W. SWETNAM, P. MORGAN
3:45 PM	Causes of spatial pattern in post-fire pine recruitment. BLAIR, S.D. , G.A. FOX
4:00 PM	Dynamics and distribution of tree species across a fire frequency gradient in the James Bay sector of Quebec. PARISIEN, M. , L. SIROIS
4:15 PM	Fire frequency and tree species abundance in a stand of boreal forest during the last 5000 years. ARSENEAULT, D. , L. SIROIS
4:30 PM	Conceptual fire ecology model for the Long lsland, NY pine barrens. JORDAN, M.J. , W.A. PATTERSON III, A. WINDISCH
4:45 PM	Prescribed burning and overstory reduction as tools for restoration of ponderosa pine forests. WIENK, C.L. , C.H. SIEG, G.R. MCPHERSON
5:00 PM	Effects of fire intensity on shrub resprouting in pine savanna. THAXTON, J.M. , W.J. PLATT