ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007)

Thursday, August 9, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

Blrm Salon II, San Jose Marriott

8:00 AM

COS 99-1

Effects of weed community species richness on the performance of spring wheat: A neighborhood competition approach
Fred Pollnac, Montana State University; Bruce Maxwell, Montana State University; Fabian Menalled, Montana State University

8:20 AM

COS 99-2

Location, timing, and mobility: Understanding a parasitoid guild in fragmented agricultural landscapes
Caterina Nerney, University of California, Berkeley; Stephen C. Welter, University of California, Berkeley

8:40 AM

COS 99-3

Wild pollinator conservation: Opportunities and challenges in mid-Atlantic sustainable agriculture
Annette M. Meredith, University of Maryland

9:00 AM

COS 99-4

Determining the agricultural potential of semi-natural Irish grasslands
Tamara Hochstrasser, University College Dublin

9:20 AM

COS 99-5

Dinitrogen fixation by winter-grown chickpea across scales in a Mediterranean climate
Juhwan Lee, University of California - Davis; Johan Six, ETH; Chris van Kessel, University of California-Davis

9:40 AM

COS 99-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 99-6

Lazy legumes or busy beans? High N fixation rates of winter cover crops across soil fertility levels
Katie L. Monsen, University of California Santa Cruz; Carol Shennan, University of California-Santa Cruz

10:10 AM

COS 99-7

The effects of early season soil wetting-drying cycles on N dynamics in California rice agroecosystems
Kaden B. Koffler, University of California, Davis; Bruce Linquist, University of California, Davis; James Hill, University of California, Davis; Randall Mutters, University of California, Davis; Christopher Greer, University of California, Davis; Chris van Kessel, University of California-Davis

10:30 AM

COS 99-8

Managing biological nitrogen fixation: Plant species and soil fertility interactions
Meagan E. Schipanski, The Pennsylvania State University; Laurie E. Drinkwater, Cornell University

10:50 AM

COS 99-9

Landscape level heat accumulation and management of agrosystems
Maciej Biernacki, University of Memphis

11:10 AM

COS 99-10

Measuring broad scale responses of agro-ecosystems to climate change and CO₂
David B. Lobell, Stanford University; Christopher Field, Stanford University

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