B34D:
New Developments and New Directions in Paleoenvironmental Studies of Wildfire in Canada Posters

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Session ID#: 6360

Session Description:
Paleoecological tools such as tree-rings, lake sediments, soil charcoal, and historical photographs and documents have provided many insights into wildfire regimes in Canada prior to the development of modern fire monitoring programs.  Traditional views of fire as a catastrophic event that resets the landscape, or that maintains the “balance of nature,” have been replaced by the understanding that fire is a stochastic, non-equilibrium process that is an integral component of Canada’s forests, with complex consequences – many of them ecologically and economically important.  There have been many recent innovations in paleoenvironmental research that have allowed the examination of aspects of the fire regime that were previously not possible.  In this session we welcome papers that use novel techniques or that examine often overlooked aspects of the fire regime in order to understand how wildfire operated in the past, or use this information to inform future forest management and conservation decisions.
OSPA Liaison:  Ze'ev Gedalof, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
Chairs:  Emma Davis, Ze'ev Gedalof and Vanessa Stretch, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
Primary Convener:  Ze'ev Gedalof, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
Conveners:  Vanessa Stretch, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada and Emma Davis, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
Index Terms:

0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0468 Natural hazards [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0476 Plant ecology [BIOGEOSCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
B34D-0064
Analysis of a Multi-Millennial Fire Record in a Bog Margin, Pointe-Escuminac, Eastern New Brunswick, Canada. (34574)
André Robichaud, University of Moncton, Shippagan, NB, Canada and Yves Bégin, INRS, Quebec, QC, Canada
 
B34D-0065
Climate Change, Wildfire, and Landscape Homogenization in Western Canada (35278)
Ze'ev Gedalof1, Lori Daniels2, Eric DaSilva1, Theresa Dinh1, Hélène Marcoux2 and Vanessa Stretch1, (1)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (2)University of British Columbia, Forest and Conservation Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada
 
B34D-0066
Using a multi-proxy approach in fire history studies: Some advantages and challenges from Jasper National Park (35518)
Emma Davis, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, Michael FJ Pisaric, Brock University, St Catharines, ON, Canada, Colin J Courtney Mustaphi, York Institute for Tropical Ecosystems (KITE), University of York, Environment Department, York, United Kingdom, Jesse C Vermaire, Carleton University, Environmental Science, Ottawa, ON, Canada and Katrina A Moser, University of Western Ontario, Dept of Geography & Environment, London, ON, Canada
 
B34D-0067
Understanding Historic Wildfire Dynamics in Jasper National Park Using Fire-Scar Dendroecology (36230)
Theresa Dinh1, Ze'ev Gedalof1 and Lori Daniels2, (1)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (2)University of British Columbia, Forest and Conservation Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada
 
B34D-0068
Historical Wildfire Variability in the Foothills of Alberta: A Dendropyrochronological Case Study (36734)
Vanessa Stretch1, Ze'ev Gedalof1 and Lori Daniels2, (1)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (2)University of British Columbia, Forest and Conservation Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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