COS 56 - Nitrogen Cycling I

Wednesday, August 6, 2008: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
201 A, Midwest Airlines Center
8:00 AM
 Highway emissions reduce nitrogen fixation in boreal forests
Thomas H. DeLuca, Bangor University; Michael Gundale, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Olle Zackrisson, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
8:20 AM
 Broad-scale patterns of ecosystem nitrogen stocks and soil nitrogen availability in post-fire lodgepole pine ecosystems
Erica Smithwick, The Pennsylvania State University; Daniel M. Kashian, Wayne State University; Michael G. Ryan, Colorado State University; Monica G. Turner, University of Wisconsin- Madison
8:40 AM
9:00 AM
 δ15Nitrogen in tree rings of temperate forest trees: Indicators of past disturbance
Pamela Templer, Boston University; Linda H. Pardo, USDA Forest Service; Susan Wheatley, Boston University; Michele Rolph, Boston University; Channing McLaurin, Jackson State University; Timothy J. Fahey, Cornell University; Thomas G. Siccama, Yale
9:20 AM
 Influence of plant communities on denitrification in a tidal freshwater marsh of the Potomac River, USA
Kristine N. Hopfensperger, Northern Kentucky University; Sujay S. Kaushal, University of Maryland; Stuart E.G. Findlay, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies; Jeff C. Cornwell, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
 Interactive effects of winter warming and nitrogen deposition on temperate ecosystem soil nitrogen dynamics
Michelle Turner, University of Western Ontario; Hugh Henry, University of Western Ontario
10:30 AM
 Nitrogen fixation accelerates phosphorus cycling rates under elevated carbon dioxide
Benjamin Z. Houlton, University of California, Davis; Peter M. Vitousek, Stanford University; Christopher Field, Stanford University; Michael Alyono, Carnegie Institution of Washington
10:50 AM
 N dynamics of wooden dowels in the long-term intersite decomposition experiment (LIDET)
Hua Chen, University of Illinois at Springfield; Mark E. Harmon, Oregon State University; Becky Fasth, Oregon State University
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