COS 112 - Ecosystem Function

Friday, August 8, 2008: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
104 C, Midwest Airlines Center
8:00 AM
 Global primary productivity, respiration, litter decomposition, and climate: Revisiting a paradigm
Walter E. Auch III, FracTracker.org, Cleveland State University; Donald S. Ross, University of Vermont
8:40 AM
 Seasonal patterns and environmental controls on extracellular enzyme activity in a northern hardwood forest soil
Kurt A. Smemo, The Holden Arboretum; David J. Burke, The Holden Arboretum; Juan C. López-Gutiérrez, The Holden Arboretum; Charlotte R. Chan, The Holden Arboretum
9:00 AM
 Impacts of herbaceous understory vegetation on ecosystem dynamics in a semi-arid ecosystem undergoing woody encroachment
Anna P. Tyler, University of Arizona; Greg Barron-Gafford, University of Arizona; Russell Scott, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service; Travis E. Huxman, University of California, Irvine
9:20 AM
 Interactions between litterfall and roots in a lowland tropical forest
Emma J. Sayer, Lancaster University; E.V.J. Tanner, University of Cambridge
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
 Pyric herbivory: Changing selectivity
Brady W. Allred, Oklahoma State University; Samuel D. Fuhlendorf, Oklahoma State University
10:10 AM
 Arabidopsis thaliana as a model plant for studying ecosystem processes
Jenny Talbot, University of California Irvine; Kathleen K. Treseder, University of California, Irvine
10:30 AM
 Modeling multiple ecosystem services and tradeoffs at landscape scales
Erik J. Nelson, Bowdoin College; Guillermo Mendoza, Stanford University; Jim Regetz, University of California Santa Barbara; Steve Polasky, University of Minnesota; Heather Tallis, The Nature Conservancy; Dick Cameron, The Nature Conservancy - California; Kai Ming A. Chan, University of British Columbia; Gretchen Daily, Stanford University; Joshua Goldstein, The Nature Conservancy; Peter Kareiva, The Nature Conservancy; Eric Lonsdorf, University of Minnesota; Robin Naidoo, WWF-US; Taylor Ricketts, University of Vermont; M. Rebecca Shaw, The Nature Conservancy
10:50 AM
 Growth and development in urban ecosystems: A network approach to city organization
Antonio Bodini, University of Parma; Cristina Bondavalli, University of Parma
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