COS 14 - Soil Ecology

Monday, August 4, 2008: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
102 A, Midwest Airlines Center
1:30 PM
 Bacterial control of fungal growth in soil: Assessing the fungal-bacterial niche overlap using growth measurements in a removal experiment
Johannes Rousk, Lund University; Louise Aldén Demoling, Lund University; Erland Bååth, Lund University
2:10 PM
 Home-field advantage accelerates leaf litter decomposition in a high-elevation forest ecosystem
Edward Ayres, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON); Heidi Steltzer, Fort Lewis College; Sarah Berg, Colorado State University; Diana H. Wall, Colorado State University; Matthew D. Wallenstein, Colorado State University; Breana L. Simmons, Colorado State University
2:30 PM
 Soil microbially mediated feedback on plant growth in tallgrass prairie
Michael S. Fitzsimons, Los Alamos National Laboratory; R. Michael Miller, Argonne National Laboratory
2:50 PM
 Fine root and soil microbe responses to long term CO2 enrichment in a mature deciduous forest
Martin K.F. Bader, University of Basel; Erika Hiltbrunner, University of Basel; Christian Koerner, University of Basel
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
 Fine root responses to soil warming at Harvard Forest: Seasonal and long-term effects
Jacqueline Mohan, University of Georgia; Jerry M. Melillo, Marine Biological Laboratory; Mary S. Clark, Sewanee University of the South; Paul T. Frankson, University of Georgia; Rebecca Orozco, University of Kansas; Sarah Butler, Marine Biological Laboratory; Diana Cai, North Oconee High School; Morgan Fleming, University of Georgia; Jennifer Johnson, University of New Mexico; Halley Ross, University of Georgia; Randal Singer, University of Georgia
3:40 PM
 Effects of root order on fine root decomposition
Marc Goebel, Pennsylvania State University; Bartosz Bulaj, August Cieszkowski Agricultural University of Poznan; Jacek Oleksyn, Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Dendrology; Sarah E. Hobbie, University of Minnesota; Peter B. Reich, University of Minnesota; David M. Eissenstat, The Pennsylvania State University
4:00 PM
 Habitat complexity effects on nematode movement in maize
Randa Jabbour, University of Wyoming; Mary E. Barbercheck, The Pennsylvania State University
4:40 PM
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