Wednesday, August 6, 2008: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
104 C, Midwest Airlines Center
COS 67 - Climate Change and Carbon II
1:30 PM	COS 67-1		Mycorrhizal mediation of residue decomposition: Impact of elevated CO2 and N inputs Shuijin Hu, North Carolina State University, Lei Cheng, North Carolina State University, Kent O Burkey, North Carolina State University, Fitzgerald L Booker, North Carolina State University, Thomas W Rufty, North Carolina State University, Cong Tu, North Carolina State University, H. David Shew, North Carolina State University
1:50 PM	COS 67-2		Effects of elevated CO2 and nitrogen fertilization on nitrate reductase activity in Pinus taeda and Liquidambar styraciflua Susan M. Natali, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Manuel Lerdau, University of Virginia
2:10 PM	COS 67-3		Increased carbon and nitrogen input from fine roots in a CO2-enriched deciduous forest: Implications for soil carbon storage and nitrogen cycling Colleen M. Iversen, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Joanne Ledford, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Richard J. Norby, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
2:30 PM	COS 67-4		Drivers of tree mortality in the eastern and central U.S Michael C. Dietze, Harvard University, Paul R. Moorcroft, Harvard University
2:50 PM	COS 67-5		Increases in tree productivity across the extra-tropical northern hemisphere during the Anthropocene: On the role of tree age and nitrogen deposition Steven L. Voelker, Oregon State University, Frederick C. Meinzer, USDA Forest Service, Barbara Lachenbruch, Oregon State University, Richard P. Guyette, University of Missouri, Rose-Marie Muzika, University of Missouri
3:10 PM			Break
3:20 PM	COS 67-6		Soil-specific C and N responses to changing atmospheric CO2 concentrations in a mesic grassland ecosystem Virginia L. Jin, USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Philip A. Fay, USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Wayne H. Polley, USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Robert B. Jackson, Duke University, Richard A. Gill, Washington State University
3:40 PM	COS 67-7		Importance of nitrogen-limited plant productivity on the feedbacks between climate and the terrestrial carbon cycle David W. Kicklighter, Marine Biological Laboratory, Andrei P. Sokolov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Jerry M. Melillo, Marine Biological Laboratory, Benjamin S. Felzer, Marine Biological Laboratory, Timothy W. Cronin, Marine Biological Laboratory, C. Adam Schlosser, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4:00 PM	COS 67-8		Elevated carbon dioxide alters the relative fitness of Taraxacum officinale genotypes James A. Bunce, US Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service
4:20 PM	COS 67-9		Biomass development in riparian late-succcessional northern hardwood-hemlock forests: Implications for forest carbon sequestration and management William S. Keeton, University of Vermont
4:40 PM	COS 67-10		Earthworm populations and feeding habits under elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide in a sweetgum plantation Yaniria Sánchez-de León, University of Illinois at Chicago, Miquel González-Meler, University of Illinois at Chicago, David H. Wise, University of Illinois at Chicago, Richard J. Norby, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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