Session 3C |
| | Changing Fire Regimes in Tropical Environments (Track III) |
| | Chair: Sarah Otterstrom, University of California, Davis, CA
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| 10:30 AM | 3C.1 | Fire Regimes in Tropical Environments: An Overview
Ronald Myers, The Nature Conservancy, Tallahassee, FL |
| 11:00 AM | 3C.2 | Tropical 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 AM | 3C.3 | Fire 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 PM | | Lunch Break
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| 1:30 PM | 3C.4 | Tradeoffs between timber management and fire vulnerability  
Geoffrey Blate, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; and F. Putz |
| 2:00 PM | 3C.5 | New 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 PM | 3C.6 | Fire Use in Rural Tropics: Cultural Perspectives from Mesoamerica
Sarah Otterstrom, University of California, Davis, CA |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break
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| 3:30 PM | 3C.7 | Fire in Cerrado and Pantanal—Ecology and Management
Paulo C. Mendes Ramos, Brazilian Environment Institute, Brasília, Brazil |
|  | 3C.8 | Causes and effects of wildfire in a West African tropical forest region
T. Kwesi Orgle, Ministry of Lands and Forestry, Accra, Ghana |
| 4:00 PM | 3C.9 | Fire regimes in SE Asia and shifting cultivation, What? Who? Where? Still? Who Else?
Peter F. Moore, Metis Associates, East Ryde, NSW, Australia |
| 4:30 PM | 3C.10 | Engaging communities in fire fighting initiatives in the Southern Pantanal
Erika Guimarães, Conservation International do Brasil, Campo Grande, MS, Brazil |
| 5:00 PM | 3C.11 | Integrating 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 PM | | Discussion
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