COS 234 - Ecosystem Management 1

Presentations:

• 10:00 AM – 10:15 AM EDT

  A case for the grazing optimization hypothesis: Intensive grazing increases plant productivity
  

  Presenting Author: Jessica Grenke – University of Alberta

  Coauthor: Edward Bork – University of Alberta

  Coauthor: Cameron N. Carlyle – University of Alberta

  Coauthor: Mark Boyce – University of Alberta

  Coauthor: James F. Cahill, Jr. – University of Alberta
• 10:15 AM – 10:30 AM EDT

  Forest resilience to wildfire and harvesting: a comparison of understory plant diversity in island remnants a decade after disturbance
  

  Presenting Author: Marcel Schneider – University of Alberta

  Coauthor: S. Ellen Macdonald – University of Alberta

  Coauthor: Rosanise Odell – University of Alberta

  Coauthor: Lance P. Moore – University of Alberta

  Coauthor: Charles Nock – University of Alberta
• 10:30 AM – 10:45 AM EDT

  CANCELLED - Wildfire residuals and harvest residuals exhibit similar characteristics for coarse woody debris a decade after a disturbance in deciduous dominated stands
  

  Presenting Author: Lance P. Moore – University of Alberta

  Coauthor: Rosanise Odell – University of Alberta

  Coauthor: Marcel Schneider – University of Alberta

  Coauthor: Charles Nock – University of Alberta
• 10:45 AM – 11:00 AM EDT

  Assessing drivers of ecosystem change using qualitative land health assessments and erosion models
  

  Presenting Author: Brandi E. Wheeler – New Mexico State University

  Coauthor: Nicholas P. Webb – USDA-ARS Jornada Experimental Range/New Mexico State University

  Coauthor: Brandon L. Edwards – USDA-ARS Jornada Experimental Range/New Mexico State University

  Coauthor: Akasha M. Faist – New Mexico State University

  Coauthor: Jeffrey E. Herrick – USDA-ARS Jornada Experimental Range
• 11:00 AM – 11:15 AM EDT

  Energy balance analysis of crop and livestock production systems in the Loess Plateau, China
  

  Presenting Author: Xiaojuan Huang – College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University

  Coauthor: Xinzhou Zhao – College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University

  Coauthor: Fujiang Hou – College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University
• 11:15 AM – 11:30 AM EDT

  Twenty-year recovery of stand structure and composition in boreal mixedwood stands of northwestern Quebec
  

  Presenting Author: Marion Noualhaguet – Institut de recherche sur les forêts - UQAT

  Coauthor: Maxence Soubeyrand – Institut de recherche sur les forêts - UQAT

  Coauthor: Timothy Work – Département des sciences biologiques - UQAM

  Coauthor: Nicole J. Fenton – Institut de Recherche sur les Forêts (IRF), Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT)