PS 88 - Latebreaking: Arid And Semi-Arid Systems

Friday, August 10, 2012: 8:30 AM-10:30 AM
Exhibit Hall, Oregon Convention Center
 Apparent competition in the Great Basin Desert: A test of small mammal facilitation of invasion by cheatgrass
Brock R. McMillan, Brigham Young University; Jacob E. Lucero, Brigham Young University; Eric D. Freeman, Brigham Young University; Eric J. Billman, Brigham Young University
 Patch-level based vegetation change and environmental drivers in Tarim River drainage area, West China
Weijing Kong, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences; Xiaobo Jia, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences; Osbert J. Sun, Beijing Forestry University; Yuan Zhang, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences
 Ammonia oxidation rates in soil are higher under legumes than under long-term, experimentally fertilized non-legume shrubs in the Sonoran Desert
Brenda Ramirez, Arizona State University; Yevgeniy Marusenko, University of California, Irvine; Sharon J. Hall, Arizona State University
Cancelled
 The effect of air humidity on decomposition in the dry season
Daniel Gliksman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
 Using spatially explicit data, geochemistry and modeling to inform ecological risk assessment for a proposed pit mine expansion
Deborah Rudnick, Integral Consulting Inc.; Les Williams, Integral Consulting Inc.; Jennifer Ortega, Newmont Mining Corporation; Mihai Aldea, Integral Consulting Inc.; Andrew Nicholson, Integral Consulting Inc
Cancelled
 Tradeoff between carbon sequestration and water resource in semiarid Loess Plateau
Xiaoming Feng, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Bojie Fu, State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences
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