Tuesday, August 3, 2010: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
329, David L Lawrence Convention Center
COS 32 - Detritus and Decomposition
1:30 PMCOS 32-1The effect of shredder species richness on the production and character of fine organic particles in aquatic habitats
Christopher J. Patrick, University of Notre Dame
1:50 PMCOS 32-2A mechanistic look at plant litter decomposition and its effect on soil carbon storage
Zachary L. Rinkes, University of Toledo, Michael N. Weintraub, University of Toledo
2:10 PMCOS 32-3Does lignin composition control litter decay rates?
Jenny Talbot, University of California Irvine, Kathleen K. Treseder, University of California, Irvine
2:30 PMCOS 32-4The effect of warming and nitrogen addition on the decomposition of woody debris
Minda R. Berbeco, Tufts University, Colin M. Orians, Tufts University
2:50 PMCOS 32-5Accumulation and decay of coarse woody detritus over 50 years of pine forest development
Megan L. Mobley, Duke University, Daniel deB. Richter, Duke University, Paul R. Heine, Duke University
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PMCOS 32-6Does canopy leaf herbivory facilitate subsequent litter decomposition in soil? Insights from an experimental manipulation in a Neotropical forest
Rafael E. Cárdenas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Olivier Dangles, Institut de Recherches pour le développement
3:40 PMCOS 32-7Solubility of leaf litter carbon and nutrients from 41 lowland tropical forest woody species
Laura A. Schreeg, University of Florida, Michelle C. Mack, University of Florida, Benjamin L. Turner, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
4:00 PMCOS 32-8A gall-inducing caterpillar species differentially alters decomposition dynamics of leaf litter from two Populus host plant species
John F. Tooker, Pennsylvania State University, Christopher J. Frost, Pennsylvania State University
4:20 PMCOS 32-9Floating-mat species composition effects on decomposition of Eichhornia crassipes and Neptunia prostrata in a seasonal tropical wetland
Justin J. Montemarano, Kent State University, Mark W. Kershner, Kent State University, Mahmood Sasa-Marin, Instituto Clodomiro Picado
4:40 PMCOS 32-10Carbon export from freshwater created flow-through wetlands
Evan J. Waletzko, The Ohio State University

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