On-Demand Presentations for the 2020 Natural Areas Virtual Conference 

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Development and Use of Native Seed in Natural Areas Management

• Biology, Ecology, and Use of Forb Species in Post-Fire Restoration 
• Timed Mowing in Combination with Broadcast Seeding Increases Native Plant Coverage in a California Grassland 
• Meeting the Need for Ecologically Appropriate Native Plant Materials in the Mojave Desert
• The BLM Great Basin Plant Conservation and Restoration Program Connecting SOS with Large Scale Seed Delivery 
• Using Patterns of Genetic Differentiation as the Foundation for Seed Transfer Guidelines 

• Implications to the Native Seed Market as we Move Forward Towards Genetic Sources and Seed Transfer Zones 

Rare Species Management

• Coastal Swamp-Cedar Regeneration 14-Years Post-Hurricane Katrina 
• Reintroduction of American Burying Beatle (Nicrophorus Americanus) in Missouri 
• Quantifying the Relationship Between Soil seed Bank and Plant Community Assemblage In Ivesia Webberi A. Gray Populations
• Oligarchy and Rareness in Large-Scale Forest Inventories; Identifying and Manageing for Vulnurable Species   

Sage-Grouse Conservation

• Greater Sage-Grouse Habitat and Demographic Response to Non-Native Ungulates
• Molecular Insights on Greater Sage-Grouse breeding Strategies in the Northwestern Great Basin   

Mitigating Impacts of Resource Extraction On Public Lands

• Wetland Mitigation Banks are Unable to replace many of the Native Plant Species Found in Natural Wetlands 

Invasive Species Management - New and Effective Approaches

• Nevada Department of Wildlife's Approach to prevention and Containment of Dreissenid Mussels 
• Can Mastication and Prescribed Burning be Applied to Simultaneously Reduce Fuels and Control Invasive Plants?
• Managing Invasive Annual Grasses 
• A Comprehensive Method for Detecting and Controlling Anguopteris Evecta in Inaccessible Terrain on O'ahu, Hawaii 

Managing Fire Regimes in a Changing World (Good/Bad Fire)

• Bandits, birds, Burning, and Beliefs: The story of Florida scrub jays at Jonathan Dickinson state Park 
• Wildfire effects on Below ground Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling and Microbial Biomass in the Sierra Nevada
• Increasing Prescribed Fire Capacity and Quality in a Changing World 
• Estimating the Impacts of Wildfire on Ecosystem Services in Southern California 

Pollinator Considerations in Natural Areas Management

• The Nutritional ecology Structuring Bee-Flower Communities in the Sierra and Sagebrush and Implications for Conservation 
• Nectar Resources in Oak savanna Pollinator Habitats 

Collaborative Approaches to Conservation- Public/Private Partnerships

• Farm to Forest
• Opportunities for Shared Stewardship After Fire in Carlton Ridge Research Natural Areas, Western Montana 

Technology in Natural Areas Conservation

• Developing a Plant Community Targeting Tool for Ecological Restoration in Pennsylvania 
• Are Talus Sites Important Winter Habitat? A Case Study Monitoring rare Mammals in Northwestern Nevada
• A Study of Landscape-Level Habitat relationships Between Birds and Vegetation on the Modoc Plateau Estimating Biomass of Chaparral Shrublands in southern California Using Landsat NDVI
• Co-Producing Knowledge on Montane Forest Ecohydrology Using Very High-Resolution Observations and Models 
• Detecting Change in High Elevation Forests; Disturbance Monitoring with the Ecosystem Disturbance and Recovery Tracker 

Natural Areas Management in Light of Climate Change

• Application of empirical land-cover changes to construct climate change scenarios in federally managed lands
• Managing small natural areas in light of climate change 
• Management to promote the resilience of sagebrush ecosystems: invasive species, altered fire regimes, and climate change

• Regeneration of high-elevation five-needle pines limited by microclimate conditions across disturbance gradients
• Across Time & Space: Species diversity response to fire severity in Sierra Nevada yellow pine and mixed-conifer forests
• Fire, carbon, and climate change in California's high elevation forests 
• Tree recruitment and forest expansion following reforestation in the Sierra Nevada, CA 
• Water stress drives demographic shifts and the potential for type conversions in coastal California pine forests
• Where and when to plant trees after fire in the face of water limitation and shrub competition
• Management to promote the resilience of sagebrush ecosystems: invasive species, altered fire regimes, and climate change

• Prioritizing Post-fire Restoration in Chaparral Shrublands in Southern California  
• Estimating loss of carbon stocks in postfire chaparral shrublands in southern California
• Implications of changing fire regimes for Sierra Nevada bat and bird communities
• Recent bark beetle outbreaks influence wildfire severity in mixedconifer forests of the Sierra Nevada, California, USA 
• Fire severity and productivity influence diversity patterns in California's subalpine forests
• Timing of moisture drives trait variation in isolated Great Basin Pinus ponderosa populations