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Opening Speakers (8.00 - 12.00)
Speaker 1 (8.15 - 9.00) IRC 2
          · Attiwill, P. and Adams, M. - Harnessing forest ecological sciences in the service of stewardship and
            sustainability: A perspective from ‘down-under’
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Speaker 2 (9.00 - 10.15) IRC 2
          · Harestad, A., Menzies, C., and Perrault, P. - Applying and Linking Traditional and Scientific Knowledge
            in Sustainable Forest Management
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Speaker 3 (10.35 - 11.20) IRC 2
          · Christanty, L.
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Speaker 4 (11.20 - 12.00) IRC 2
          · Merino, L. - Challenges to Sustainable Forest Management and Stewardship in Mexico
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Concurrent Sessions A (13.00 - 15.00)
A1. Forest Recovery After Mountain Pine Beetle (Phil Burton) IRC 1
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          · Axelson, J., Alfaro, R., Hawkes, B., & Shore, T. - Stand Dynamics Following Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreaks
            in Central British Columbia
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          · DeLong, C. - A Network for Monitoring Forest Ecosystem Dynamics After the Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreak
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          · Williston, P., Cichowski, D., & Haeussler, S. - The Last Days of Enlichenment: an Understory Struggle for
            Survival in Mountain Pine Beetle-killed Forests
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          · Brooks, D., & Burton, P. - Patterns of Advance Regeneration in Lodge-pole Pine Stands
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          · Coates, D.K., Astrup, R. and Hall, E.C. - Natural Regeneration in Mountain Pine Beetle Damaged Forests of
            Northern British Columbia
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A2. Biogeochemistry  IRC 3
          · Sajedi, T., Seely, B., Prescott, C. - Causes of Poor Nutrient Supply in Regenerating of Coastal Cedar-Hemlock
            Forests: The Excessive Moisture Hypothesis
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          · Brais, S., Purdon, M., Paré, D. - Nutrient Dynamics as a Function of Disturbance Types, Composition and Soil
            Texture in Boreal Mixed Stands in Northwestern Québec
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          · Close, E., Purdy, B., MacDonald, E., Chang, S. - Growth and Nutritional Status of Aspen and White Spruce on
            Naturally Saline Sites in the Boreal Forest
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          · Kranabetter, M., Dawson, C., Dunn, D. - Indices of Dissolved Organic Nitrogen, Ammonium and Nitrate
            Across Productivity Gradients of Boreal Forests
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A3. Competition and Regeneration Ecology: I  IRC 4
          · Hawkins, C., Danskin, D., Balliet, N. - Using Silviculture to Maximize Ecological and Economic Value of
            Mixed Species Stands
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          · Filipescu, C., Comeau, P. - Competitive Interactions Between Aspen and White Spruce Vary with Site and Age
            in Boreal Mixedwoods
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          · Parker, W., Pitt, D. - Ecophysiological Effects of Competition by Herbaceous and Woody Vegetation in an
            Eastern White Pine (Pinus strobus L.) Plantation
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          · Comeau, P. - Dynamics of Aspen and Calamagrostis Competition and its Implications to Mixedwood
            Management
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          · Tremblay, M., Boucher, J-F., Tremblay, P., Lord, D. - Afforestation by Natural Seeding of Black Spruce
             (Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.) Lichen Woodland Stands Within the Closed-crown Boreal Forest
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A4. Indicator Species  IRC 5
          · Halme, P., Mönkkönen, M., Kotiaho, J., Sippola, A-L., Hottola, J., Junninen, K., Kouki, J., Lindgren, M.,
            Penttilä, R., Renvall, P., Siitonen, J., Similä, M. - Defining Indicator Species Empirically - a New Method
            Tested with Polypore Data
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          · Pyper, M., Pyper, M. Spence, J., Langor, D., He, F. - What are we Indicating? - Alternatives to the Use of
            Single Species Indicators in Biodiversity Management
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          · Rogers, P., Ryel, R. - Change in Aspen Dependent Species with Succession: the case for Epiphytic Macrolichens
             as Indicator Species
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          · Edman, T. - Evaluation of a Meta-population model for Dendrocopos leucotos in Poland
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          · Caspersen, J. Vanderwel, M., Holloway, G. - Cavity Tree Occurrence in Hardwood Forests of Central Ontario
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A5. Natural Disturbance: I  IRC 2
          · Bergeron, C., Spence, J., Volney, J. - Fire History, Insect Outbreaks and Tree Rings in North Western Alberta
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          · Man, R., Kayahara, G., Rice, J. - Mortality and Growth Response of Aspen Trees to Forest Tent Caterpillar
            Defoliation in a Boreal Mixedwood Stand in Northeastern Ontario
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          · Reyes, G., Kneeshaw, D. - Intermediate-severity Disturbance Dynamics in Boreal Mixedwoods: the Relative
            Importance of Disturbance Type and Local Stand and Site Characteristics on Woody Vegetation Response
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          · Kneeshaw, D. - Comparing Two Different Natural Disturbances to Harvesting to Improve Forest Management
            in Boreal Mixedwoods
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          · Paradis, S., Work, T. - Carabid Distribution Along a Time-since Fire Chronosequence of the Boreal Black-
             spruce-feathermoss Domain in Abitibi, North-Western Québec
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          · Fan, Z., Kabrick, M., Spetich, M., Shifley, S., Jensen, R. - Oak Mortality Associated with Crown Dieback and
            Oak Borer Attack in the Ozark Highlands of Missouri and Arkansas, USA
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Concurrent Sessions B (15.20-17.00)
B1. Management of Deadwood in BC (Craig DeLong) IRC 1
session abstract    
          · DeLong, C. - Temporal development of dead wood habitats in wet spruce-fir stands
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          · Fall, A. - Implementation of a Fine-Scale Spatially Explicit Forest Management/Deadwood Matrix Model
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          · Sutherland, G. - Model Parameterization from Both Field Data and Stand Dynamics Models
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          · Daniels, L., Powell, S., & Jones, T. - Dendroecological Analysis of In-Stream Large Woody Debris
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B2. Biogeochemistry and Soils  IRC 3
          · Thiffault, E., Munson, A., Bélanger, N., Paré, D. - 'Woodman, Spare That Tree, Touch not a Single Bough!':
             Studying Whole-tree Harvesting Effects in Boreal Forests
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          · Koele, N., Millard, K. - Healthy Soil, Healthy Forest
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          · Royer Tardif, S., Bradley, R. - Mixed-wood Stands Enhance Microbial Stability in Boreal Forest Soils
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          · Berch, S., Addison, J. - Effects of Organic Matter Loss and Soil Compaction on Soil Collembola in SBS
             Plantations
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          · Berch, S., Brockley, R. - Impacts of Repeated Fertilization on Soil Biota Under Young Lodge-pole Pine and
            Interior Spruce Stands in the Interior of British Columbia
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B3. Competition and Regeneration Ecology: II  IRC 4
          · Pinno, B., Belanger, N. - Effects of Competition Control on Growth and Nutrition of Juvenile Hybrid Poplar
            Planted on Sites of Varying Fertility
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          · Zaczek, J., Steiner, K., Phelps, T. - Long-term Survival and Growth Dynamics of Planted Quercus rubra:
            Influence of Cultural Treatments and Intraspecific Competition
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          · McIntire, E., Fajardo, A. - Distinguishing Microsite and Competition Processes in Tree Growth Dynamics
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          · Bingham, M., Simard, S. - Common Mycorrhizal Networks may Facilitate Conifer Regeneration Under
            Environmental Stress
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          · Devine, W. - Influences of Above- and Belowground Competition on Natural Douglas-fir Regeneration in a
            Thinned Prairie-colonization Forest
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B4. Ecological Classification  IRC 5
          · Keys, J., Cleland, D., McNab, W. - Delineation of Ecological Subregions of the Conterminous United States
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          · McNab, W., Lloyd, F. - Testing Ecoregion Mapping Hypotheses in Kentucky and Tennessee, USA
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          · Fan, Z., Dey, D., Niu, S., Hartman, G. - Effects of Prescribed Fires and Ecological Land Types on the
            Structure and Dynamics of Oak-hickory Forest Ecosystems, USA
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          · Levy, L., Jacqmain, E. - Certificate Course in Ecosystem Silviculture
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B5. Natural Disturbance: II  IRC 2
          · Dzus, E., Grover, B. - Implementing the Natural Disturbance Model: Stand and Landscape Level Approaches
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          · Burton, P., Roberts, M. - A Multivariate Characterization of Natural and Anthropogenic Forest Disturbances
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          · Copenheaver, C. - Pre-European Settlement Forest Composition in the Southern Appalachians
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          · Drobyshev, I., Goebel, C., Hix, D., Gorace, G. - Interactions Between Fire Disturbance and Forest Structure:
             a Case Study of Red Pine-dominated Forests of Seney National Wildlife Refuge, Upper Michigan
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Banquet (19.00-20.30) UBC Museum of Anthropology
          · Brian Titus and Andy MacKinnon - Welcome to our corner of the globe: ecosystems of Canada and British
            Columbia
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