Friday, August 6, 2010: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
406, David L Lawrence Convention Center
COS 107 - Biogeochemistry: Linking Community Structure and Ecosystem Function
8:00 AMCOS 107-1Management effects on C and N dynamics in a turfgrass system
Paul J. Lilly, University of Vermont, Jennifer C. Jenkins, University of Vermont, Mark Carroll, University of Maryland
8:20 AMCOS 107-2Linking community and ecosystem dynamics through measurements of elemental composition of single plankton cells
Stephen B. Baines, Stony Brook University
8:40 AMCOS 107-3Self-thinning of annual grass seedlings accounts for spatial and temporal variation in the availability of multiple nutrients
Valerie T. Eviner, University of California Davis, Naomi M. Clark, University of California Davis, Lillian Hayden, University of California Davis
9:00 AMCOS 107-4Community structure of wood-decaying fungi along a stand-replacing wildfire chronosequence in southwestern ponderosa pine forests
Valerie J. Kurth, Northern Arizona University, Catherine A. Gehring, Northern Arizona University, Peter Z. Fulé, Northern Arizona University, Stephen C. Hart, University of California, Merced
9:20 AMCOS 107-5Tree species change in a Northern Hardwood forest and its implications for carbon and nitrogen cycling: The influence of geological substrate and an introduced disease
Gary M. Lovett, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Mary A. Arthur, University of Kentucky
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AMCOS 107-6Biological processes influencing nutrient limitation in a tropical wet forest
Silvia Alvarez-Clare, University of Florida, Michelle C. Mack, University of Florida
10:10 AMCOS 107-7Controls on soil bacteria and fungi in the Southwestern US may provide insight into community shifts under future climate change
Kathleen A. Lohse, University of Arizona, Jean E. T. McLain, USDA-ARS
10:30 AMCOS 107-8Using wetland attributes to predict tidal wetland effects on water quality
Stuart E.G. Findlay, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
10:50 AMCOS 107-9Invasive plant species effects on carbon and nitrogen cycling in temperate wetlands
Jason P. Martina, Michigan State University, Colin Phillippo, Michigan State University, Merritt R. Turetsky, University of Guelph, Stephen K. Hamilton, Michigan State University
11:10 AMCOS 107-10The role of plant community composition and functional group richness on methane production and iron reduction potentials in experimental wetland mesocosms
Sarah E. Andrews, University of New Hampshire, Rachel E. Schultz, Ohio State University, Serita D. Frey, University of New Hampshire, Virginie Bouchard, Ohio State University

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