93rd ESA Annual Meeting (August 3 -- August 8, 2008)

Wednesday, August 6, 2008: 5:00 PM-6:30 PM

Exhibit Hall CD, Midwest Airlines Center

PS 37-20

Ecophysiology of Agave tequilana
Eulogio Pimienta-Barrios, Universidad de Guadalajara; Julia Zañudo-Hernández, Universidad de Guadalajara; Blanca C. Ramírez-Hernández, Universidad de Guadalajara

PS 37-21

Dispersal and colonization of Rotifera in the Chihuahuan Desert: A mesocosm experiment
Robert L. Wallace, Ripon College; Elizabeth J. Walsh, The University of Texas at El Paso; Thomas Schröder, University of Texas at El Paso; Alma D. Castanon, University of Texas at El Paso; Matthew C. Stensburg, Ripon College

PS 37-22

Response of Sahara mustard (Brassica tournefortii) to soil disturbance and water addition in the southern Mojave Desert
Alexis A. Suazo, University of Idaho; Jessica E. Spencer, University of Nevada Las Vegas; Scott R. Abella, National Park Service

PS 37-23

Effect of rainfall pulses on soil CO₂ fluxes and ecophysiology of Bouteloua eriopoda in a northern Chihuahuan Desert grassland
Michell L. Thomey, University of New Mexico; Scott L. Collins, University of New Mexico; Jennifer E. Johnson, Stanford University; Renee F. Brown, University of New Mexico; Don O. Natvig, University of New Mexico; Michael T. Friggens, University of New Mexico

PS 37-24

Differential plant preferences for inorganic nitrogen forms in the Patagonian steppe
Laureano Gherardi, Brown University; Osvaldo E. Sala, Arizona State University; Laura Yahdjian, IFEVA-CONICET

PS 37-25

Shrub expansion in northern Chihuahuan Desert grasslands: Spatial patterns and biophysical constraints
Darroc P. Goolsby, New Mexico State University; Brandon T. Bestelmeyer, USDA Agricultural Research Service; Steven R. Archer, University of Arizona

PS 37-26

Are plant adaptations to water stress and the chemical content of organic matter directly linked?
Christine M. Goedhart, University of California, Irvine; Diane Pataki, University of Utah

PS 37-27

Mortality and recruitment of desert perennials as related to extreme drought: The possible elimination of drought deciduous shrubs from low elevations
Edward G. Bobich, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona; Cassandra Nunez, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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