COS 90 - Nitrogen cycling

Wednesday, August 8, 2007: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Blrm Salon I, San Jose Marriott
1:30 PM
 Global model for nitrogen release and decay of leaf and root material
William Parton, Colorado State University; Whendee L. Silver, University of California, Berkeley; E. Carol Adair, University of Vermont
1:50 PM
 Toward a biogeochemical framework of nitrogen fixation in the terrestrial biosphere
Benjamin Z. Houlton, University of California, Davis; Yingping Wang, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research; Peter M. Vitousek, Stanford University; Christopher Field, Stanford University
2:10 PM
 Nitrogen deposition reduces nitrogen limitation of terrestrial net primary production
David S. LeBauer, University of Arizona; Kathleen K. Treseder, University of California, Irvine
2:30 PM
 Nitrogen mineralization in response to a water pulse: The role of phenotypic differences in plant carbon quality on belowground processes
Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Cientifica y Tecnológica; Tulio Arredondo, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica A. C.; Eduardo Medina Roldan, Instituto Potosino de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnologica
2:50 PM
 Biodiversity risks from atmospheric nitrogen deposition in California
Stuart B. Weiss, Creekside Center for Earth Observation
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
 Quantum dots: A novel technique to assess plant and fungal uptake of organic N
Matthew D. Whiteside, University of British Columbia, Okanagan; Kathleen K. Treseder, University of California, Irvine
3:40 PM
 The effect of water and nutrient availability on nitrogen contribution by the native sagebrush legume Lupinus argenteus
Erin M. Goergen, St. Petersburg College; Jeanne Chambers, USDA Forest Service; Robert Blank, USDA Agricultural Research Service
4:00 PM
 Trace N gas efflux from aridland systems: Partitioning abiotic and biotic drivers
Carmody K. McCalley, Cornell University; Jed P. Sparks, Cornell University
4:20 PM
 Linking process-level function and beta-subgroup ammonia oxidizer community dynamics across varying soils following manure application
Ann-Marie Fortuna, USDA-ARS, NEPSWL; C. Wayne Honeycutt, USDA-ARS, NEPSWL; Terence L. Marsh, Michigan State University; Tim Griffin, Tufts University; Bob Larkin, USDA-ARS, NEPSWL; Zhongqi He, USDA-ARS, NEPSWL; Brian Wienhold, USDA-ARS; Karamat Sistani, USDA-ARS; Steve Albrecht, USDA-ARS, CPCRC; Bryan Woodbury, USDA-ARS; H. Allen Torbert, USDA-ARS; Mark Powell, USDA-ARS; Robert Hubbard, USDA-ARS; Roger Eigenberg, USDA-ARS; Bob Wright, USDA-ARS
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