94th ESA Annual Meeting (August 2 -- 7, 2009)

Monday, August 3, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

Ruidoso, Albuquerque Convention Center

1:30 PM

COS 1-1

Boom and bust in the desert: The failed economy of an invasive grass in the Mojave Desert
Claus Holzapfel, Rutgers University; Hadas A. Parag, Rutgers University; Gareth J. Russell, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University

1:50 PM

COS 1-2

Comparative whole-plant and leaf-level gas exchange of invasive and native desert grassland bunchgrasses
Erik P. Hamerlynck, USDA-ARS; Russell L. Scott, USDA-ARS; Travis E. Huxman, University of California, Irvine

2:10 PM

COS 1-3

CANCELLED - From long-term prediction to spatial modeling of annual grassland response to climate change
Rakefet Shafran-Natan, Ben Gurion University of the Negev; Tal Svoray, Ben Gurion University of the Negev; Avi Perevolotsky, The Volcani Center

2:30 PM

COS 1-4

CANCELLED - Effects of soil texture and prehistoric agriculture on ecosystem properties in the Sonoran Desert
Jolene Trujillo, Arizona State University; Sharon Hall, Arizona State University; Hoski Schaafsma, Arizona State University; John M. Briggs, Kansas State University

2:50 PM

COS 1-5

Elevated CO₂ and warming effects on soil organic matter dynamics in a semi-arid grassland
Yolima Carrillo, University of Western Sydney; Elise G. Pendall, University of Wyoming; Feike A. Dijkstra, University of Sydney; Joanne Newcomb, University of Wyoming; David G. Williams, University of Wyoming; Jack A. Morgan, USDA-ARS

3:10 PM

COS 1-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 1-6

Abiotic processes drive gaseous nitrogen loss from Mojave Desert soils
Carmody K. McCalley, Cornell University; Jed P. Sparks, Cornell University

3:40 PM

COS 1-7

Challenging desertification paradigms: Towards an objective quantification of land degradation and the Charney effect in African ecosystems
Niall P. Hanan, South Dakota State University; Lara Prihodko, South Dakota State University; Christopher A. Williams, Clark University

4:00 PM

COS 1-8

Moisture controls on plant and microbial contributions to soil respiration in coastal California pine forests
Mariah S. Carbone, University of California; Sean M. Schaeffer, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; A. Park Williams, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Christopher J. Still, Oregon State University

4:20 PM

COS 1-9

Patterns of post-fire vegetation recovery in a Mojave Desert springs complex
Stephanie O. Sunderman, University of Nevada, Reno; Peter J. Weisberg, University of Nevada, Reno; Sarah L. Karam, University of Nevada, Reno

4:40 PM

COS 1-10

Improving springs ecosystem stewardship: A rapid multi-cultural inventory and assessment approach
Colleen A. Cooley, Ecological Society of America; Lawrence E. Stevens, Museum of Northern Arizona and Grand Canyon Wildlands Council

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COS 1 - Arid and Semi-Arid Systems