Tuesday, August 3, 2010: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
335, David L Lawrence Convention Center
COS 37 - Photosynthesis and Gas Exchange Measurement & Rhizosphere and Root Function
1:30 PMCarbon dioxide capture from a point source using the microalgae Chlorella vulgaris.
Kenneth Kofiga Zame, Youngstown State University, Douglas Price, Youngstown State University
1:50 PMPhysiographic position and vegetative cover modulate the influence of temperature and precipitation as controls over leaf and ecosystem level CO2 flux in semiarid ecosystems
Greg A. Barron-Gafford, University of Arizona, Russell L. Scott, USDA-ARS, G. Darrel Jenerette, University of California, Erik P. Hamerlynck, USDA-ARS, Travis E. Huxman, University of Arizona
2:10 PMEffect of smoke on plant physiology: Is smoke bad for tobacco too?
Peter D. Cowan, University of Calfornia at Berkeley, Max A. Moritz, University of California, Berkeley
2:30 PMPrometheusWiki: Protocols, methods, explanations and updated standards for ecological and environmental plant physiology
Adrienne B. Nicotra, The Australian National University, Lawren Sack, UCLA, Louis Santiago, University of California, Riverside, Will Cornwell, University of California, Berkeley
2:50 PMEvaluating uncertainties in sap flux Scaled estimates of forest transpiration, canopy conductance, and photosynthesis
Eric J. Ward, Duke University, David M. Bell, Duke University, James S. Clark, Duke University, Hyun S. Kim, Duke University, Ram Oren, Duke University
3:10 PMBreak
3:20 PMDefining maximum carrying capacity in loblolly pine: Results from a long-term study in Hawaii
Lisa J. Samuelson, Auburn University, Tom A. Stokes, Auburn University, John R. Butnor, U.S. Forest Service
3:40 PMField tests of a new Cavity Ring-Down, closed-path analyzer for simultaneous eddy covariance flux measurements of carbon dioxide and methane
Randy Apodaca, Picarro, Inc., Iain Green, Picarro, Inc., Aaron Van Pelt, Picarro, Inc.
4:00 PMConsequences of shifts in ectomycorrhizal community composition under elevated CO2 and n on carbon inputs to forest soils
Ina C. Meier, Indiana University, Peter G. Avis, Indiana University Northwest, Emily S. Bernhardt, Duke University, Richard P. Phillips, Indiana University
4:20 PMRoot biomass estimated by minirhizotrons and ground-penetrating radar after 11 years of atmospheric CO2 enrichment in a Florida scrub ecosystem
Rachel E. Schroeder, Old Dominion University, Frank P. Day, Old Dominion University, Daniel B. Stover, Earthwatch Institute, Alisha L. P. Brown, Norfolk Botanical Garden Society, John R. Butnor, U.S. Forest Service, Bert G. Drake, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, C. Ross Hinkle, University of Central Florida
4:40 PMComparison in fine root architectural patterns among six coexisting tree species in a broad-leaf temperate forest
Oscar J. Valverde, Kent State University, Larry M. Feinstein, Kent State University, Kurt A. Smemo, The Holden Arboretum, Mark W. Kershner, Kent State University, Christopher B. Blackwood, Kent State University

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