1:30 PM: Wilkinson, Elliot¹, Feener, Donald¹, ¹ University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, Effects of habitat complexity on ant-parasitoid interactions: Another look at how disturbance regimes can change community dynamics.

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1:50 PM: Kellogg, Lara-Karena^*,1, McKenzie, Don ^{*,1, 2}, Peterson, David^{*,1, 2}, ¹ University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA² Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Laboratory, Seattle, WA, USA, Quantifying the spatial variability associated with low severity fire regimes in the eastern Cacades of Washington.

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2:10 PM: Hua, Dong^{*,1, 2}, Peng, Changhui¹, Dang, Qing-Lai ², Zhou, Xiaolu ^{1, 2}, Sun, Jianfeng¹, ¹ ECO-MCS Lab, Montréal, Quebec, Canada² Faculty of Forestry and the Forest Environment, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, Modelling Canadian boreal forest wildfires: A case study.

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2:30 PM: Estes, Becky¹, Gjerstad, Dean¹, Brockway, Dale², ¹ Auburn University, Auburn, AL² Forest Service, Auburn, AL, Assessing heterogeneity in a longleaf pine ecosystem.

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2:50 PM: Kerns, Becky ^*,1, Thies, Walter ¹, Niwa, Chris ¹, ¹ USDA Forest Service, Corvallis, Oregon, Prescribed burn and cattle grazing in ponderosa pine forests: Implications for the herbaceous understory.

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3:20 PM: Pavlovic, Noel¹, Grundel, Ralph¹, ¹ U.S. Geological Survey, Porter, IN, USA, Groundlayer vegetation gradients across oak woodland canopy gaps.

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3:40 PM: Rumbaitis-del Rio, Cristina ^{*,1, 2}, Wessman, Carol ¹, ¹ University of Colorado, Boulder, CO² Columbia Univerisity Earth Institute, New York, NY, Ecological Memory: Do pre-fire disturbances influence post-fire nitrogen cycling and regeneration?

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4:00 PM: Sala, Anna^*,1, Keeling, Eric¹, DeLuca, Thomas², ¹ Division of Biological Sciences. The University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA² Department of Ecosystem and Conservation Science. The University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA, Ponderosa pine and Douglas-fir responses to repeated fire in wilderness areas of the inland Northwest.

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4:20 PM: Bigler, Christof^*,1, Kulakowski, Dominik¹, Veblen, Thomas¹, ¹ University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, Multiple disturbance interactions and extreme drought influence fire severity in a Rocky Mountain subalpine forest landscape.

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4:40 PM: Muzika, Rose-Marie^*,1, Guyette, Richard ¹, Voelker, Steven¹, Stambaugh, Michael¹, ¹ University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, Human-drought-fire-interactions in Ozark forests.

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