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

Wednesday, August 8, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

N, San Jose McEnery Convention Center

8:00 AM

COS 66-1

Native grasslands and meadows in Pennsylvania: Their history and current condition
Roger Earl Latham, Continental Conservation; James F. Thorne, Natural Lands Trust

8:20 AM

COS 66-2

Contrasting responses of Swiss grasslands to simulated summer drought
Anna K. Gilgen, University of Bern; Constant Signarbieux, University of Berne, Switzerland; Urs Feller, University of Berne, Switzerland; Nina Buchmann, Institute of Agricultural Science, ETH Zurich

8:40 AM

COS 66-3

Photosynthetic water use efficiency and biomass of Sorghastrum nutans (C₄) and Solidago canadensis (C₃) in three soils along a CO₂ concentration gradient
Philip A. Fay, USDA, Agricultural Research Service; Dafeng Hui, Tennessee State University; Andrew Procter, Duke University; Virginia L. Jin, USDA-ARS; Hyrum B. Johnson, USDA, Agricultural Research Service; H. Wayne Polley, USDA, Agricultural Research Service; Rob Jackson, Stanford and Duke universities

9:00 AM

COS 66-4

The effects of fire frequency and grazing on tallgrass prairie plant composition and productivity are mediated though bud bank demography
Harmony J. Dalgleish, The College of William and Mary; David C. Hartnett, Kansas State University

9:20 AM

COS 66-5

Spatial-temporal effects of grazing on root metabolism in grasslands of Yellowstone National Park
Michele A. Thorne, Syracuse University; Douglas A. Frank, Syracuse University

9:40 AM

COS 66-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 66-6

Dispersal limitation of plant diversity influences biomass production in montane European grasslands
Claudia Stein, Bilogy Department; Harald Auge, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ; Markus Fischer, University of Bern; Daniel Prati, University of Bern; Wolfgang Weisser, Technical University of Munich

10:10 AM

COS 66-7

Earthworms as drivers of the competition between grasses and legumes
Nico Eisenhauer, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena; Stefan Scheu, Georg-August University

10:30 AM

COS 66-8

Root heterogeneity and production in Agropyron cristatum (crested wheatgrass) and native grassland
Brenda M. Vaness, Western Ag Innovations, Inc.; Scott D. Wilson, University of Regina; Andrew S. MacDougall, University of Guelph

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