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Oral Session #54: Fire Ecology -- Trees, forests, woodlands.
Presiding: E. Menges
Wednesday, August 7. 8:00 AM to 11:30 AM. Apache Meeting Room, TCC.

[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Heyerdahl, Emily*,1, Alvarado, Ernesto2, 1 USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mtn. Res. Stn., Missoula, MT2 University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Historical fire in pine-oak forests, Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico: Influence of climate and land use.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Norman, Steven*,1, Taylor, Alan2, 1 USDA PSW Redwood Sciences Lab, Arcata, CA2 The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. An assessment of historic fire-vegetation relationships in the eastside pine forest of California.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Falk, Donald*,1, Swetnam, Thomas1, 1 University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. The event-area relationship: spatial and temporal scaling rules for surface fire regimes in southwestern Ponderosa pine forests.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Soja, Amber*,1, Sukhinin, Anatoly2, Cahoon, Don3, Shugart, Herman1, Stackhouse, Paul4, 1 University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia2 Sukachev Forest Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Krasnojarsk, Russia3 Terra Systems Research, Williamsburg, Virginia4 NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia. Patterns of fire and area burned in Siberia defined using remote sensing techniques.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] FROST, CECIL*,1, 1 NC PLANT CONSERVATION PROGRAM, RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA. Landscape fire ecology and the restoration of natural fire frequencies.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] SALA, ANNA*,1, HARRINGTON, MICHAEL2, DELUCA, THOMAS3, CALLAWAY, RAGAN1, 1 Division of Biological Sciences, Missoula, Montana2 USDA FS Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula, Montana3 School of Forestry, Missoula, Montana. Old growth ponderosa pine and western larch respond positively to restoration thinning and burning treatments.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Loftin, Samuel*,1, 1 Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM. Wildfire effects on thinned and unthinned Piñon-Juniper woodland.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] RICCARDI, CYNTHIA*,1, MCCARTHY, BRIAN1, 1 Ohio University, Athens, OH. Effects of prescribed fire and thinning on fuel loads in Central Appalachian mixed-oak forests.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] BALICE, RANDY*,1, KOCH, STEVEN1, 1 Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM. Modeling the effects of fire hazard reduction activities on wildfire behavior.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Dickinson, Matthew*,1, Johnson, Edward2, 1 USDA Forest Service, Delaware, Ohio, mbdickinson@fs.fed.us2 University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Tree vulnerability to fires: thermal tolerance of live bark cell populations.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] van Mantgem, Phillip*,1, Stephenson, Nathan1, 1 U.S.G.S./B.R.D., Three Rivers, CA. Searching for a general model of tree death in burned and unburned stands.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Principe, Zachary*,1,2, Deutschman, Douglas2, Zedler, Paul3, 1 The Nature Conservancy, Murrieta, CA2 San Diego State University, San Diego, CA3 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI. Effects of fire on the demography of a savanna oak tree, Quercus engelmannii.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] MEIER, ALBERT*,1, REBERTUS, ALAN2, 1 Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky2 Northern Michigan University, Marquette, Michigan. Coarse woody debris in fire suppressed and frequently burned old-growth oak stands.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Bond, William*,1, Midgley, Guy2, Woodward, Ian3, 1 Botany Department, UCT, Cape Town, South AFrica2 National Botanical Institute, Kirstenbosch, South AFrica3 Plant and Animal Sciences, U. of Sheffield, Sheffield, U.K.. Atmospheric CO2, Fire and tree/grass interactions .

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