COS 75 - Nitrogen Cycling II

Wednesday, August 6, 2008: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
101 B, Midwest Airlines Center
1:30 PM
 Fixation by adult legume trees linked to soil nitrate in a lowland tropical forest
Alex R. Barron, Princeton University; Lars O. Hedin, Princeton University
1:50 PM
 Patterns of N uptake in understory plants based on natural abundance and tracer 15N
Linda H. Pardo, USDA Forest Service; Etienne Dambrine, INRA; Bernd Zeller, INRA; Yann Baronnier, INRA; Jean-Luc Dupouey, INRA; Erwin Ulrich, Office National des Forets
2:10 PM
 Sorghum halepense and endophytic N-fixing bacteria: Ecosystem engineers altering soil biogeochemistry
Marnie E. Rout, University of Montana; T.H. Chrzanowski, The University of Texas at Arlington
2:30 PM
 Nitrogen dynamics in urban grasslands and forests
Peter M. Groffman, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies; Richard Pouyat, Chesapeake Bay Career Consulting; Candiss O. Williams, Purdue University; Lawrence E. Band, University of North Carolina
2:50 PM
 Leaf uptake of gaseous nitrogen dioxide: The influence of root nitrogen sources, concentrations, and enzyme expression
Dena M. Vallano, University of California Santa Cruz; Jed P. Sparks, Cornell University
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
 Carbon and sulfide as controls on nitrogen cycling in freshwater sediments
Amy J. Burgin, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Stephen K. Hamilton, Michigan State University
3:40 PM
 Nitrous oxide production from bacteria and fungi in a semi-arid grassland soil from central New Mexico
Matthew R. Opdyke, Point Park University; Peggy H. Ostrom, Michigan State University; Nathaniel E. Ostrom, Michigan State University; Robert L. Sinsabaugh, University of New Mexico; Chelsea L. Crenshaw, University of New Mexico
4:00 PM
 Controls of anthropogenic nitrogen input and export for catchments in the Central Valley, California, USA
Daniel J. Sobota, National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow; John A. Harrison, Washington State University Vancouver
4:20 PM
 Seasonal variation in nitrogen retention processes in a coupled terrestrial-aquatic ecosystem: A tracer experiment
Christine L. Goodale, Cornell University; Steve A. Thomas, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Jed P. Sparks, Cornell University; Guinevere Fredriksen, Cornell University; Carmody K. McCalley, Cornell University
4:40 PM
 The role of microbes in interspecific plant competition for nitrogen
Stephanie Yelenik, University of California, Santa Barbara; Benjamin Colman, University of California, Santa Barbara; Janneke Hille Ris Lambers, University of Washington; Jonathan M. Levine, ETH Zurich
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