COS 20 - Ecosystem Function

Tuesday, August 3, 2010: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
334, David L Lawrence Convention Center
Presider:
Steve A. Thomas, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
8:00 AM
 Physiological causes of the age-related decline in pine forest productivity
John. E. Drake, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Evan H. DeLucia, Institute for Genomic Biology
8:20 AM
 Analyzing the rain-use efficiency: New insights by meta-analysis and quantile regression
Jan C. Ruppert, University of Cologne; Anja Linstädter, University of Cologne
8:40 AM
 Soil heterogeneity of abandoned gas well pads in the Piceance Basin of western Colorado
Tamera J. Minnick, Mesa State College; Richard D. Alward, Aridlands Natural Resource Consulting; Mackenzie Gibson, Mesa State College; Seth Wilson, Mesa State College
9:00 AM
 Vegetation diversity and heterogeneity on abandoned gas well pads in the Piceance Basin of western Colorado
Richard D. Alward, Aridlands Natural Resource Consulting; Tamera J. Minnick, Mesa State College; Seth Wilson, Mesa State College; Mackenzie Gibson, Mesa State College
9:20 AM
 Aboveground net primary production responses to water availability in the Chihuahuan Desert: the importance of legacy effects
Lara G. Reichmann, USDA, Agricultural Research Service; Osvaldo E. Sala, Arizona State University; Debra P.C. Peters, USDA Agricultural Research Service
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
 Changes in leaf litter chemistry and extracellular enzyme activity during decomposition of natural leaf mixtures at two northwest Ohio forests
John E. Herman, Coastal Carolina Community College; Daryl L. Moorhead, University of Toledo; Michael N. Weintraub, University of Toledo
10:30 AM
 Are humans decreasing the frequency and/or magnitude of ecological synergies?  A review and case study employing multiple nutrient enrichment in Bahamian estuaries
Jacob E. Allgeier, University of Georgia; Amy D. Rosemond, University of Georgia; Craig A. Layman, North Carolina State University
11:10 AM
 Long-term responses of soil microbial community structure and function to changes in precipitation in a Chihuahuan Desert grassland: Impacts towards understanding  Soil responses to global climate change
Colin Bell, Colorado State University; V. Acosta-Martinez, USDA-ARS; Nancy E. McIntyre, Texas Tech University; Stephen B. Cox, Texas Tech University; David T. Tissue, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, University of Western Sydney, Richmond NSW; John Zak, Texas Tech University
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