95th ESA Annual Meeting (August 1 -- 6, 2010)

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

COS 20-1

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

COS 20-2

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

COS 20-3

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

COS 20-4

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

COS 20-5

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

COS 20-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 20-6

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

10:10 AM

COS 20-7

CANCELLED - Are N Immobilization-Mineralization Dynamics in Foliar Litter related to patterns of stream nitrate exports? A Study in an Appalachian Forest
Kathryn B. Piatek, West Virginia University; Mary Beth Adams, USDA Forest Service

10:30 AM

COS 20-8

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

10:50 AM

COS 20-9

High dissolved-inorganic-carbon uptake in closed ecological systems: Is this why ‘cosms tend to demonstrate carbon limitation, unlike lakes?
Frieda B. Taub, University of Washington

11:10 AM

COS 20-10

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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