| MONDAY, June 18th - Oral Presentation Downloads | |
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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 | |||
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| · 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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