Session 2B |
| | Fire Effects on Flora: Part 1 (TRACK II) |
| | Chair: Sue Grace, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Lacombe, LA
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| 8:00 AM | 2B.1 | Stem Mortality in Surface Fires. Part I, Tissue Response to Elevated Temperatures  
Matthew B. Dickinson, USDA Forest Service, Delaware, OH |
| 8:30 AM | 2B.2 | Stem mortality in surface fires. Part II, Experimental methods for characterizing the thermal response of tree stems to heating by fires
D. M. Jimenez, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and B. W. Butler and J. Reardon |
| 9:00 AM | 2B.3 | Stem Mortality in Surface Fires. Part III, Linking Stem Heating with Tissue Response for Planning Prescribed Burns
Joshua L. Jones, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah; and B. W. Webb |
| 9:30 AM | 2B.4 | Fuel characteristics and fire behavior predictions in native and old-field pinelands in the Red Hills Region, southwest Georgia
Kevin M. Robertson, Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, FL; and T. E. Ostertag |
| 10:00 AM | | Coffee Break
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| 10:30 AM | 2B.5 | Long-Term Seasonal Burning at the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, North Florida: Changes in the Sandhill Plots After 23 Years
Jeff S. Glitzenstein, Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, FL; and D. Streng and W. Platt |
| 11:00 AM | 2B.6 | Fine fuel characteristics: differences among grass species and significance for prescribe fire management in longleaf pine forests
Sharon M. Hermann, Auburn University, Auburn, AL |
| 11:30 AM | 2B.7 | The effect of season of fire on the recovery of Florida scrub
Tammy E. Foster, Dynamac Corporation, Kennedy Space Center, FL; and P. A. Schmalzer |
| 12:00 PM | | Lunch Break
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| 1:30 PM | 2B.8 | Prescribed fire effects in the Ozarks of Missouri: the Chilton Creek project 1996–2001
George W. Hartman, Missouri Department of Conservation, Columbia, MO; and B. Heumann |
| 2:00 PM | 2B.9 | Twenty Five Years of Vegetation Development since the Baxter Fire of 1977
Erin D. Small, University of Maine, Orono, ME; and J. S. Wilson and A. J. Kimball |
| 2:30 PM | 2B.10 | Fire in wetland habitats: A 4-year evaluation in Maryland
Conception Flores, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, USGS, Princess Anne, MD; and D. L. Birch |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break
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| 3:30 PM | 2B.11 | Vegetation responses to fire created edges in a Douglas-fir/hardwood forest
Jacob J. Hanson, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. D. Stuart |
| 4:00 PM | 2B.12 | Vegetation recovery in the Biscuit Fire, Siskiyou National Forest, Oregon
Diane E. White, Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, Medford, OR; and T. Atzet and P. A. Martinez |
|  | 2B.13 | Postfire changes in understory composition in singleaf pinyon-juniper and Jeffrey pine alliances in the San Bernardino Mountains, California
Mark Borchert, USDA Forest Sevice, Ojai, CA; and D. Kopp, M. Neel, and S. Eliason |
| 4:30 PM | 2B.14 | Fire Ecology of the Mountain Pine, Pinus harwegii
Dante Arturo Rodríguez Trejo, Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, Chapingo, Edo. de México, Mexico |