8:00 AM: Yaroshenko, Alexey^*,1, ¹ Greenpeace Russia, Moscow, Moscow, Russia, Natural disturbances and current forestry practices in European Russia.

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8:20 AM: Kuuluvainen, Timo^*,1, ¹ Department of Forest Ecology, Helsinki, Finland, Natural disturbance dynamics of boreal forests in Fennoscandia: Implications for management and conservation.

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8:40 AM: De Grandpré, Louis¹, Boucher, Dominique^{1, 2}, ¹ Canadian Forest Service, Sainte-Foy, Québec, Canada² Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada, On the importance of secondary disturbances in boreal forest of eastern Canada.

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9:00 AM: Tardif, Jacques¹, ¹ Centre for Forest Interdisciplinary Research (C-FIR), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Natural disturbance dynamics in the boreal plains of central Canada.

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9:20 AM: Burton, Philp^*,1, Taylor, Steve², ¹ Canadian Forest Service, Prince George, B.C., Canada² Canadian Forest Service, Victoria, B.C., Canada, The disturbance ecology of northwestern Canada: Factors and consequences.

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9:50 AM: Lloyd, Andrea^*,1, Wilson, Alexis¹, Fastie, Christopher¹, Landis, R. Matthew¹, ¹ Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, USA, Population dynamics of black spruce at its northern limit in the Brooks Range, Alaska.

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10:10 AM: Calef, Monika^*,1, McGuire, A. David², Chapin, F. Stuart¹, DeWilde, La'ona³, ¹ Institute of Arctic Biology, Fairbanks, AK² U.S. Geological Survey Alaska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Fairbanks, AK³ Biology and Wildlife Department, Fairbanks, AK, The human footprint on wildfire in the boreal forest of interior Alaska.

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10:30 AM: Bergeron, Yves^{1, 2}, Leduc, Alain ², Gauthier, Sylvie³, Flannigan, Mike ⁴, ¹ UQAT/UQAM Chair in sustainable forest mangement, Rouyn-Noranda, québec, Canada² Groupe de recherche en écologie forestière interuniversitaire, Montreal, québec, Canada³ Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Laurentian Forestry Centre, Ste-Foy, Québec, Canada⁴ Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Great Lakes Forestry Centre, Sault Ste-Marie, Ontario, Canada, Canadian boreal forest fire regimes and their implication for sustainable forest management and biodiversity conservation.

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10:50 AM: Pearson, Audrey^*,1, Mitchell, Stephen¹, Lanquaye, Naa¹, ¹ University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Wind disturbance patterns in Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands), British Columbia.

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11:10 AM: Gauthier, Sylvie¹, Claveau, Yves², Kneeshaw, Daniel², ¹ Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Canada² UQAM, Montreal, Québec, Canada, Integration of secondary disturbances into an ecosystem management framework for boreal forests.

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