Thursday, August 9, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Willow Glen I, San Jose Marriott
COS 105 - Ecology of alpine, Arctic, and Antarctic systems
8:00 AMCOS 105-1Nitrogen mobilization in early spring in the Arctic tundra
Kate M. Buckeridge, Queen's University, Paul Grogan, Queen's University
8:20 AMCOS 105-2What drives the soil microbial and nutrient declines at the end of the Arctic winter?
Kate A. Edwards, University of Toronto
8:40 AMCOS 105-3Net primary production in mineral soils of a Polar desert
J. E. Barrett, Virginia Tech, Ross A. Virginia, Dartmouth College, Diana H. Wall, Colorado State University, Byron J. Adams, Brigham Young University
9:00 AMCOS 105-4Effects of landscape age on small watershed carbon and nutrient fluxes in Arctic Alaska
Kyle A. Whittinghill, University of Minnesota, Jacques C. Finlay, University of Minnesota, Sarah E. Hobbie, University of Minnesota
9:20 AMCOS 105-5Carbon flux on barren-ground caribou migratory trails in the tundra
Pamela C. O, University of British Columbia, Gregory H.R. Henry, University of British Columbia
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AMCOS 105-6Carbon balance of conifer seedlings at high elevations: Comparison of a treeline and non-treeline species
Sheel Bansal, Idaho State University, Matthew J. Germino, Idaho State University
10:10 AMCOS 105-7Ecosystem consequences of elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration at the alpine treeline
I. Tanya Handa, Centre of Functional Ecology and Evolution, Frank Hagedorn, Swiss Federal Institute of Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Stephan Hattenschwiler, Centre of Functional Ecology and Evolution
10:30 AMCOS 105-8Effects of long-term experimental warming on high Arctic soil seed banks
Rebecca A. Klady, University of British Columbia, Gregory HR Henry, University of British Columbia

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