5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress

Session 3C: Changing Fire Regimes in Tropical Environments (Track III)

Tuesday, 18 November 2003: 10:30 AM-6:30 PM
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Chair:  Sarah Otterstrom, University of California
Papers:
  10:30 AM
3C.1
Fire Regimes in Tropical Environments: An Overview
Ronald Myers, The Nature Conservancy, Tallahassee, FL

  Recorded presentation
  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

  Recorded presentation
  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
3C.4
Tradeoffs between timber management and fire vulnerability
Geoffrey Blate, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; and F. Putz

  Recorded presentation Poster PDF (544.5 kB)
  12:30 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

  Recorded presentation
  1:00 PM
3C.6
Fire Use in Rural Tropics: Cultural Perspectives from Mesoamerica
Sarah Otterstrom, University of California, Davis, CA

  Recorded presentation
  1:30 PM
3C.7
Fire in Cerrado and Pantanal—Ecology and Management
Paulo C. Mendes Ramos, Brazilian Environment Institute, Brasília, Brazil

  Recorded presentation Poster PDF (134.2 kB)
 
3C.8
Causes and effects of wildfire in a West African tropical forest region

  2:30 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

  Recorded presentation
  3:00 PM
3C.10
Engaging communities in fire fighting initiatives in the Southern Pantanal
Erika Guimarães, Conservation International do Brasil, Campo Grande, MS, Brazil

  Recorded presentation
  3:30 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

  Recorded presentation
  4:00 PM
3C.3a
Lunch Break

  5:30 PM
3C.6a
Coffee Break

  6:00 PM
3C.11a
Discussion

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