COS 66 - Biofuel Ecology and Cropping Systems

Wednesday, August 6, 2008: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
103 DE, Midwest Airlines Center
1:30 PM
 Net greenhouse gas flux for biofuel cropping systems in the central USA
Stephen J. Del Grosso, USDA-ARS; Paul R. Adler, USDA-ARS; Stephen Ogle, Colorado State University; William Parton, Colorado State University; Tristram O. West, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Keith Paustian, Colorado State University; Tom Wirth, USEPA
1:50 PM
 The fate of nitrogen in grain cropping systems: A meta-analysis of 15N experiments
Jennifer B. Gardner, Cornell University; Laurie E. Drinkwater, Cornell University
2:10 PM
 Ecology and biofuel energy life cycle analyses
Sarah Davis, Ohio University; Evan DeLucia, University of Illinois
2:30 PM
 Managing biological nitrogen fixation in cash grain agroecosystems
Meagan E. Schipanski, The Pennsylvania State University; Laurie E. Drinkwater, Cornell University
2:50 PM
 The effect of glyphosate-resistant cropping systems on management of weed species diversity and herbicide resistance
Karla L. Gage, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; David J. Gibson, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; Joseph L. Matthews, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; Bryan G. Young, Southern Illinois University; Micheal D. K. Owen, Iowa State University; Robert G. Wilson, University of Nebraska; Stephen C. Weller, Purdue University; William G. Johnson, Purdue University; David R. Shaw, Mississippi State University; David L. Jordan, North Carolina State University
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
 Soil moisture stress tolerance of the biofuel switchgrass: Implications for invasiveness
Jacob Barney, Virginia Tech; Joseph M DiTomaso, University of California
3:40 PM
 Flowering and fruiting phenologies of two Attalea palm species in southwestern Amazonia: Evaluating potential sources of biofuel
Joanna M. Tucker Lima, University of Florida; Karen A. Kainer, University of Florida
4:00 PM
 Impact of cropping systems weed aboveground and seedbank communities in the northern Great Plains
Fabian Menalled, Montana State University; Fredric Pollnac, University of New Hampshire; Kristin Harbuck, Montana State University; Bruce Maxwell, Montana State University
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