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

Friday, August 10, 2012: 8:30 AM-10:30 AM

Exhibit Hall, Oregon Convention Center

PS 88-13

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

PS 88-14

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

PS 88-15

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

PS 88-16

The effect of air humidity on decomposition in the dry season
Daniel Gliksman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

PS 88-17

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

PS 88-18

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

See more of: Latebreakers

PS 88 - Latebreaking: Arid And Semi-Arid Systems