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

Monday, August 2, 2010: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

335, David L Lawrence Convention Center

Presider:

Virginia Matzek, Santa Clara University

1:30 PM

COS 6-1

Interannual variability of soil respiration in managed forests in Ozarks, Missouri
Jianye Xu, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606

1:50 PM

COS 6-2

Hydrological balance in an upland forest of the New Jersey Pine Barrens – five years of investigation
Karina VR Schafer, Rutgers University Newark; Kenneth L. Clark, USDA Forest Service

2:10 PM

COS 6-3

The role of temporal and spatial heterogeneity along a habitat duration gradient: influences on food-chain length in aquatic food webs
Tiffany A. Schriever, Oregon State University; D. Dudley Williams, University of Toronto Scarborough

2:30 PM

COS 6-4

Biodiversity of microbial gut content as a new fish trait related to organic matter degradation
Maud A. Mouchet, ECOLAG-Université de Montpellier 2; Corinne Bouvier, ECOLAG-Université de Montpellier 2; Thierry Bouvier, ECOLAG - Université Montpellier 2; Marc Troussellier, ECOLAG-Université de Montpellier 2; David Mouillot, ECOLAG-Université Montpellier 2

2:50 PM

COS 6-5

Carbon fluxes in novel tropical secondary forests
Jessica Fonseca da Silva, 1.USDA, Forest Service International Institute of Tropical Forestry; 2.Center for Applied Tropical Ecology and Conservation, PR; Ariel Lugo, USDA Forest Service

3:10 PM

COS 6-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 6-6

Top-down effects of different macroconsumers on benthic structure and function in a high-gradient neotropical stream
Andrew J. Binderup, University of Georgia; Michael C. Marshall, University of Georgia; Catherine M. Pringle, University of Georgia; Steve A. Thomas, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Alexander S. Flecker, Cornell University; Rana W. El-Sabaawi, University of Victoria; Andrés López-Sepulcre, University of California, Riverside; David N. Reznick, University of California Riverside

3:40 PM

COS 6-7

Does substrate stoichiometry control decomposition of tropical tree leaf litter ?
Sandra Barantal, Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, CEFE-CNRS; Nathalie Fromin, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Heidy Schimann, INRA-UMR ECOFOG; Stephan Hättenschwiler, Centre of Functional Ecology and Evolution

4:00 PM

COS 6-8

Year-round seasonal patterns of soil microbial and nutrient dynamics: Four years of observations from wet and dry low-Arctic sedge meadows
Kate A. Edwards, Canadian Forest Service - Natural Resources Canada

4:20 PM

COS 6-9

Carbon stocks in regenerating tropical dry forests in Costa Rica: Effects of soil variation and forest age
Jennifer S. Powers, University of Minnesota; Justin M. Becknell, Carleton College

4:40 PM

COS 6-10

The effect of abiotic factors on asymbiotic nitrogen fixation in dead roots from the Pacific Northwest
William T. Hicks, Bethany College; Hua Chen, University of Illinois at Springfield

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