8:00 AM Langley, Susan¹, Frost, Cecil², Fels, John³, Wentworth, Thomas³, ¹ Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA² North Carolina Plant Conservation Program, Raleigh, NC³ North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC Landscape fire ecology: Defining fire compartments and a topographic index of fire probability.

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8:15 AM Brown, Kim¹, Giuliani, Rita^*,1, ¹ Dept. of Environmental and Plant Biology, Athens, OH, USA Landscape and treatment influences on the spatial heterogeneity in leaf area productivity in thinned and burned oak-hickory forests of SE Ohio.

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8:30 AM Falk, Donald^*,1, ¹ Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, USA The event-area relationship: Scale dependence in the fire regime of a New Mexico ponderosa pine forest.

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8:45 AM Newman, Gregory^*,1, Hart, Stephen¹, Guido, Daniel¹, Overby, Steven², ¹ School of Forestry and Merriam-Powell Center for Environmental Research, Flagstaff, AZ² Rocky Mountain Research Station, Flagstaff, AZ Wildfire effects on soil microbial activity and community-level physiological profiles in a ponderosa pine ecosystem.

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9:00 AM Titiz, Beyhan^*,1, Sanford, Jr, Robert^*,1, ¹ University of Denver, Denver, CO Soil charcoal distributions along an elevational gradient in a Costa Rican rainforest.

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9:15 AM Hutchinson, Todd ^*,1, Sutherland, Elaine², Yaussy, Daniel¹, ¹ USDA Forest Service, NERS, Delaware, OH² USDA Forest Service, RMRS, Missoula, MT Can oak forest structure and sustainability be restored with prescribed fire alone?

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9:30 AM Schnurr, Jaclyn^*,1, Collins, Beverly², ¹ Sheldon Jackson College, Sitka, AK² Savannah River Ecology Lab, Aiken, SC Fire suppression and Quercus falcata seedling recruitment in southeastern forests.

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10:00 AM Quintana-Ascencio, Pedro^*,1, Menges, Eric¹, Weekley, Carl¹, Gaoue, Orou¹, ¹ Archbold Biological Station, Venus, Florida, USA Demographic variation with fire in an endemic mint.

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10:15 AM Liu, Hong^*,, Menges, Eric, Effects of wet- vs. dry-season fires on vital rates of an endemic herb.

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10:30 AM Foster, Tammy^*,1, Schmalzer, Paul¹, ¹ Dynamac Corporation, Kennedy Space Center, FL The effect of season of fire on the recovery of Florida scrub.

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10:45 AM Imm, Donald^*,1, McLeod, Ken², ¹ USDA-FS Savannah River, New Ellenton, SC² Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, Aiken, SC Fire and twenty years of change in a Carolina sandhill.

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