97th ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10, 2012)

Monday, August 6, 2012: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

B114, Oregon Convention Center

1:30 PM

COS 3-1

Biological processes influencing nutrient limitation in a Costa Rican lowland tropical forest
Silvia Alvarez-Clare, The University of Montana; Michelle Mack, University of Florida

1:50 PM

COS 3-2

High levels of soil and litter nitrogen contents after bark beetle-induced lodgepole pine mortality
Nicholas R. Brown, University of Wyoming; Urszula Norton, University of Wyoming; Elise Pendall, University of Wyoming; Brent E. Ewers, University of Wyoming; Bujidmaa Borkhuu, University of Wyoming

2:10 PM

COS 3-3

Fungal and bacterial growth responses to drought and drying-rewetting cycles
Johannes Rousk, Lund University

2:30 PM Cancelled

COS 3-4

Caribou and reindeer herbivory may help mitigate climate change impacts in arctic tundra
Tara J. Zamin, Queen's University; Paul Grogan, Queen's University

2:50 PM

COS 3-5

Microbial responses to an imposed gradient of water availability in wet tropical forest soils
Bonnie G. Waring, University of Minnesota; Christine Hawkes, University of Texas, Austin

3:10 PM

COS 3-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 3-6

Phylogenetic relatedness of saprotrophic fungal communities affects decomposition rates
Stephanie N. Kivlin, Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory; Kathleen K. Treseder, University of California, Irvine

3:40 PM

COS 3-7

Microbial community structure and decomposition processes in peat soils of the James Bay Lowlands, Canada
Michael Preston, Univrsity of Toronto; Kurt A. Smemo, The Holden Arboretum; James W. McLaughlin, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources; Nathan Basiliko, University of Toronto at Mississauga

4:00 PM

COS 3-8

Trait-mediated effect of predators at the community and ecosystem level
Edd Hammill, University of British Columbia; Trisha Atwood, University of British Columbia; Diane S. Srivastava, University of British Columbia

4:20 PM

COS 3-9

Predator diversity and functional traits influence community structure and ecosystem processes
Trisha Atwood, University of British Columbia; Edd Hammill, University of British Columbia; Diane S. Srivastava, University of British Columbia; John S. Richardson, University of British Columbia

4:40 PM

COS 3-10

The importance of biogenic methane for fishery productivity in Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia
Gordon W. Holtgrieve, University of Washington; Michael T. Brett, University of Washington; Nam So, Inland Fisheries Research and Development Institute; Phen Chheng, Inland Fisheries Research and Development Institute

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