Printed Program (PDF) - Ecological Society of America

Exhibit Hall DE, Oregon Convention Center
PS 15-187 Wilhelm, KR
Life on Earth: Preserving, Utilizing, and Sustaining our Ecosystems
1 , B Rathsack2 and JG Bockheim1 , (1)
University of Wisconsin-Madison, (2)University of
Wisconsin. Effects of timber harvest intensity on
macronutrient cycling on oak-dominated sandy soils of
northwest Wisconsin.
PS 15-188 Palmer, MM1 , DJ Mladenoff1 , JA Forrester1 and DE
Rothstein2 , (1)University of Wisconsin-Madison, (2)
Michigan State University. Net ecosystem productivity
during the first two years of woody biomass plantation
establishment at two grassland sites in northern MI and
WI, USA.
PS 15-189 Wieme, RA and KL Shea, St. Olaf College. Effects of
varying nitrogen fertilizer treatments on soil properties,
plant nutrients, and economic returns in no-till cornfields.
PS 15-190 Mitchell, DC1 , MJ Castellano1 , TB Parkin2 and MJ
Helmers1 , (1)Iowa State University, (2)USDA Agricultural
Research Service. Biogeochemical processes of nitrate
removal by prairie buffers in Iowa agricultural watersheds.
PS 15-191 Schulte, LA1 , CA Cambardella2 , T Gunther1 , RB Hall1 , A
Hallam1 , SK Hargreaves1 , W Headlee1 , E Heaton1 , MJ
Helmers1 , KS Hofmockel1 , TM Isenhart1 , RK Kolka3 , R
Manatt1 , K Moore1 , TA Ontl1 , W Welsh1 and RJ Williams1 ,
(1)Iowa State University, (2)USDA-Agricultural Research
Service, (3)USDA Forest Service, Northern Research
Station. The Landscape Biomass Project: Field tests of
ecological and economic tradeoffs associated with five
biomass cropping systems.
PS 15-192 Hunt, ND, ST Gower and M Ozdogan, University of
Wisconsin Madison. Estimating canopy dynamics and
productivity of upper Midwestern agroecosystems using
remotely sensed observations.
PS 15-193 Wang, D, D LeBauer and M Dietze, University of Illinois.
Screening optimal biomass source by assessing plant
growth rate and water use efficiency on 21 woody
species.
PS 16 - Fire
Exhibit Hall DE, Oregon Convention Center
PS 16-194 Heckman, KA1 , J Campbell2 , H Powers3 , T Guilderson4 ,
BE Law2 and CW Swanston5 , (1)USDA Forest Service,
(2)Oregon State University, (3)Los Alamos National
Lab, (4)Lawrence Livermore National Lab, (5)US Forest
Service, Northern Research Station. The influence of
fire on the radiocarbon signature and character of soil
organic matter in the Siskiyou National Forest, Oregon.
PS 16-195 Hollingsworth, SN1 , MG Hohmann2 and WA Hoffmann1 ,
(1)North Carolina State University, (2)US Army Corps of
Engineers ERDC - CERL. The bigger they are the harder
they fall: Plant carbon balance explains size-dependent
responses to fire.
PS 16-196 Vaness, BM1 , DJ Augustine2 , KW Davies2 , BG Johnson3 ,
JD Derner4 , DW Johnson3 , RL Sheley2 , JD Bates2 ,
DG Milchunas5 , WW Miller3 , EM Carroll-Moore3 and
DI Board6 , (1)Western Ag Innovations, Inc., (2)USDA-
ARS, (3)University of Nevada, (4)USDA ARS, High
Plains Grasslands Research Station, (5)Colorado State
University, (6)USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain
Research Station. Burning down the house: A
pyromaniacs guide to PRS-probe use in fire ecology
research.
PS 16-197 Acker, SA1 , JA Kertis2 and RJ Pabst3 , (1)Olympic
National Park, (2)USDA Forest Service, (3)Oregon
State University. Tree recruitment following wildfire in a
mountain hemlock forest, Oregon Cascades.
PS 16-198 Senici, D1 , A Lucas2 , HH Chen1 , Y Bergeron3 , A
Larouche4 , B Brossier5 , O Blarquez6 and AA Ali5 , (1)
Lakehead University, (2)Universite du Quebec en Abitibi-
Temiscamingue, (3)University of Quebec in Abitibi-
Temiscamingue, (4)Université de Montréal, (5)Universite
Montpellier II, (6)Université du Québeec à Montréal.
Multi-millennial interactions between fire frequency and
tree abundance in North American boreal forests.
PS 16-199 Clement, GT1 and SK Chapman2 , (1)Villanova Univesity,
(2)Villanova University. Forest fire legacy effects are more
pervasive at low elevations.
PS 16-200 Clifford, MJ and RK Booth, Lehigh University. Late
Holocene drought variability and wildfire occurrence in
Maine.
PS 16-201 Newman, EA, EK Waller and MA Moritz, University of
California, Berkeley. California data support Oregon fire
probability mapping using MaxEnt models.
PS 16-202 Gaetani, MS and D Schwilk, Texas Tech University.
Tradeoffs in fire survival traits of oaks in the Trans-Pecos
Mountains.
PS 16-203 Ellsworth, LM, CM Litton and AP Dale, University of
Hawaii at Manoa. Changes in land cover and fire risk
associated with nonnative grass invasion in Hawaii.
PS 16-204 West, AL, CB Zou, E Stebler, D Turton, SD Fuhlendorf and
H Zhang, Oklahoma State University. Ecohydrological
response of tallgrass prairie rangelands to fire and
grazing impacts from patch burning and annual burning
regimes.
PS 16-205 Barlow, RJ, JC Gilbert, SM Hermann and JS Kush,
Auburn University. Prescribed fire effects in a longleaf
pine (Pinus palustris) ecosystem: Are winter fires
working?.
PS 16-206 Chapman, SK1 , RL Kukola1 , KL Clark2 and J Hom2 , (1)
Villanova University, (2)USDA Forest Service. Disturbance
mediated changes in nitrogen cycling in the New Jersey
Pinelands.
PS 16-207 Kemp, KB, AM Young, PE Higuera, J Abatzoglou and
P Morgan, University of Idaho. Quantifying climate-fire
relationships in forest ecosystems of the U.S. Northern
Rockies, 1902-2008.
PS 17 - Fire Management
Exhibit Hall DE, Oregon Convention Center
PS 17-208 Jennings, TN1 , JE Smith1 , K Cromack Jr. 2 , D McKay1 ,
BA Caldwell2 and S Beldin3 , (1)USDA Forest Service,
(2)Oregon State University, (3)USGS FRESC. Taking the
heat: Soil microbial communities and soil biogeochemistry
after wildfire and postfire logging in central Oregon.
PS 17-209 Keyser, AR1 , A Westerling1 and T Das2 , (1)University of
California, Merced, (2)CH2M Hill Inc.. Quantifying the
relative importance of multiple indices when predicting
fire severity in the western United States.
PS 17-210 Petersen, SM, College of Wooster. Effects of single spring
and fall fires and a fire surrogate (clipping) on seedling
layers in oak-dominated forests in southern Ohio.
PS 17-211 Knutson, KC1 , TA Wirth1 , DA Pyke1 , DS Pilliod1 , RS
Arkle1 , ML Brooks2 , JB Grace3 and JC Chambers4 4:30 pm-6:30 pm
,
(1)USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science
Center, (2)USGS Western Ecological Research Center,
(3)USGS National Wetlands Research Center, (4)USDA
Forest Service. Effects of post-fire seedings on plant
cover and annual grass invasion in the Great Basin: A
chronosequence approach.
PS 17-212 Meier, AJ, DR Kem and MM Wilder, Western Kentucky
University. The effects of fire on the vernal herbs of an
eastern mesic forest.
PS 17-213 Anning, AK and BC McCarthy, Ohio University. Long-term
growth response of trees to prescribed fire and thinning
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