OOS 36 - Cross-boundary fire ecology

Organizer(s)

• JS

  Jens Stevens

  USDA Forest Service, United States

Co-Organizer(s)

• MP

  Marc-André Parisien

  Research Scientist
  Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service
  Edmonton, Canada

Moderator(s)

• JS

  Jens Stevens

  USDA Forest Service, United States

Wildland fire is a quintessential cross-boundary challenge for ecosystem management. Fires rarely stop at political boundaries, and ongoing shifts in fire regimes have global implications. Yet fire research is often done at local scales and is rarely replicated or standardized across international boundaries. Questions that could be addressed at a cross-boundary scale include, how can data on fire extent and burn severity be integrated at continental scales to generate standardized monitoring of fire trends? How can research designs and study questions related to postfire vegetation and wildlife dynamics be replicated across international boundaries? How can information on fire occurrence and fire effects from multiple countries be better integrated to benefit local people, given diversity in cultures, land tenure and livelihoods? How can local partners be engaged in the scientific process? This session aims to bring together scientists working in Canada, The United States, and Mexico to highlight recent fire ecology research that integrates methodologies to address these important issues in wildland fire science at an international scale. Through a series of case studies, we will highlight international data sets and opportunities for improved international collaboration on fire ecology research. This objective is well-timed with the international focus of this year’s ESA meeting and the increasing importance of wildland fire as an ecosystem process that will increasingly impact almost all aspects of terrestrial ecology over the coming decades.

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM – 8:15 AM EDT

  Patterns and drivers of post-fire regeneration across boreal North America and a vision for a biome-wide effort
  

  Presenting Author: Jenn Blatzer – Wilfrid Laurier University

  Co-author: Jill F. Johnstone – University of Alaska Fairbanks

  Co-author: Jennifer L. Baltzer, PhD – Wilfrid Laurier University
• 8:15 AM – 8:30 AM EDT

  Causes, consequences, and trends of extreme fire spread across western North America
  

  Presenting Author: Cameron E. Naficy – Oregon State University

  Co-author: Cameron E. Naficy – Oregon State University

  Co-author: Jonathan Coop – Western Colorado University

  Co-author: Sean Parks – USDA Rocky Mountain Research Station

  Co-author: Ellen Whitman – Natural Resources Canada

  Co-author: Marc-André Parisien – Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service

  Co-author: Meg A. Krawchuk – Oregon State University

  Co-author: Camille Stevens-Rumann – Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences, Colorado State University
• 8:30 AM – 8:45 AM EDT

  100 years of fire suppression has eroded landscape-scale pyrodiversity in northern British Columbia's sub-boreal and montane forests
  

  Presenting Author: Kira Hoffman – Buckley Valley Research Centre

  Co-author: Amy Cardinal Christianson, PhD – Canadian Forest Service

  Co-author: Lori Daniels, PhD – University of British Columbia

  Co-author: Alana Clason, PhD – Bulkley Valley Research Centre
• 8:45 AM – 9:00 AM EDT

  Climate, people, and fire in Madrean sky islands of the US-Mexico borderlands: insights for transboundary fire management and adaptation to future change
  

  Presenting Author: Miguel Villarreal – US Geological Survey

  Co-author: Sandra L. Haire – Haire Laboratory for Landscape Ecology

  Co-author: Citlali Cortés-Montaño – Independent Researcher

  Co-author: Aaron D. Flesch – University of Arizona

  Co-author: José M. Iniguez – Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service

  Co-author: Jose Raul Romo-Leon – Departamento de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas, Universidad de Sonora

  Co-author: Jamie S. Sanderlin – USDA Forest Service
• 9:00 AM – 9:15 AM EDT

  Wildfire and climate influences on avian diversity in the US-Mexico borderlands
  

  Presenting Author: Jamie S. Sanderlin – USDA Forest Service

  Co-author: Jamie S. Sanderlin – USDA Forest Service

  Co-author: Sandra L. Haire – Haire Laboratory for Landscape Ecology

  Co-author: Citlali Cortés-Montaño – Independent Researcher

  Co-author: Aaron D. Flesch – University of Arizona

  Co-author: José M. Iniguez – Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service

  Co-author: Jose Raul Romo-Leon – Departamento de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas, Universidad de Sonora

  Co-author: Miguel Villarreal – US Geological Survey
• 9:15 AM – 9:30 AM EDT

  A fire science blueprint for North America
  

  Presenting Author: Christy Arseneau – Canadian Forest Service, Atlantic Forestry Centre

  Co-author: Matt Jolly – US Forest Service

  Co-author: Diego Pérez-Salicrup – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

  Co-author: Stacey Sankey – Canadian Forest Service

  Co-author: Jonathan Boucher – Canadian Forest Service

  Co-author: Eric Tomen – The Ohio State University

  Co-author: Mike Norton – Canadian Forest Service