2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress
    

Session 3C

 Changing Fire Regimes in Tropical Environments (Track III)
 Chair: Sarah Otterstrom, University of California, Davis, CA
10:30 AM3C.1Fire Regimes in Tropical Environments: An Overview  
Ronald Myers, The Nature Conservancy, Tallahassee, FL
11:00 AM3C.2Tropical Fire Regimes of the Past  
Kenneth H. Orvis, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN; and S. P. Horn, H. D. Grissino-Mayer, L. M. Kennedy, B. L. League, and J. H. Speer
11:30 AM3C.3Fire as a recurrent disturbance event in the tropics: Current fire-return intervals, the influence of fuel loads and precipitation  
Narendran Kodandapani, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; and S. Raman and M. A. Cochrane
12:00 PMLunch Break  
1:30 PM3C.4Tradeoffs between timber management and fire vulnerability  extended abstract wrf recording
Geoffrey Blate, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; and F. Putz
2:00 PM3C.5New fire regimes as spatial agents of land cover change in tropical landscapes: Lessons from the Amazon for natural resource management, conservation and sustainable development  
Mark Cochrane, Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, East Lansing, MI
2:30 PM3C.6Fire Use in Rural Tropics: Cultural Perspectives from Mesoamerica  
Sarah Otterstrom, University of California, Davis, CA
3:00 PMCoffee Break  
3:30 PM3C.7Fire in Cerrado and Pantanal—Ecology and Management  extended abstract wrf recording
Paulo C. Mendes Ramos, Brazilian Environment Institute, Brasília, Brazil
3C.8Causes and effects of wildfire in a West African tropical forest region  
T. Kwesi Orgle, Ministry of Lands and Forestry, Accra, Ghana
4:00 PM3C.9Fire regimes in SE Asia and shifting cultivation, What? Who? Where? Still? Who Else?  
Peter F. Moore, Metis Associates, East Ryde, NSW, Australia
4:30 PM3C.10Engaging communities in fire fighting initiatives in the Southern Pantanal  
Erika Guimarães, Conservation International do Brasil, Campo Grande, MS, Brazil
5:00 PM3C.11Integrating Fire Ecology, Fire Science and Fire Management to Maintain and Restore Appropriate Fire Regimes in the Tropics  
Ronald Myers, The Nature Conservancy, Tallahassee, FL
5:30 PMDiscussion  

Tuesday, 18 November 2003: 10:30 AM-6:30 PM

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