COS 75
Ecosystem Function

Wednesday, August 7, 2013: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
L100F, Minneapolis Convention Center
1:30 PM
 Stochastic assembly leads to alternative communities with distinct functions in a bioreactor microbial community
Jizhong Zhou, University of Oklahoma; Wenzong Liu, Harbin Institute of Technology; Ye Deng, University of Oklahoma; Yi-Huei Jiang, University of Oklahoma; Kai Xue, University of Oklahoma; Zhili He, University of Oklahoma; Joy D. Van Nostrand, University of Oklahoma; Liyou Wu, University of Oklahoma; Yunfeng Yang, Tsinghua University; Aijie Wang, Harbin Institute of Technology
1:50 PM
 Genotypic variation in traits controlling carbon uptake responses to precipitation in switchgrass
Philip A. Fay, USDA, Agricultural Research Service; Mike Aspinwall, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, University of Western Sydney; Lara G. Reichmann, USDA, Agricultural Research Service; H. Wayne Polley, USDA, Agricultural Research Service; Anne Gibson, USDA ARS; Albina Khasanova, University of Texas at Austin; Briana Whitaker, University of Austin; David B. Lowry, University of Austin; Sam Taylor, Bowdoin College; Christine V. Hawkes, University of Texas at Austin; Thomas Juenger, University of Texas at Austin
2:50 PM
 The ZEN of seagrass ecology: Biodiversity, environment, and eelgrass ecosystem functioning on a planetary scale
Pamela L. Reynolds, University of California; J. Emmett Duffy, Tennenbaum Marine Observatory Network, Smithsonian Institution; Katharyn E. Boyer, Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies, San Francisco State University; Christoffer Bostrom, Åbo Akademi University; James Coyer, University of Groningen; Mathieu Cusson, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi; James G. Douglass, Northeastern University; Johan Eklof, University of Gothenburg; Aschwin Engelen, Centre of Marine Sciences (CCMAR); Britas Klemens Eriksson, University of Groningen; Lars Gamfeldt, University of Gothenburg; Masakazu Hori, Fisheries Research Agency; Kevin A. Hovel, San Diego State University; Stein Fredriksen, University of Oslo; Katrin Iken, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Per-Olav Moksnes, University of Gothenburg; Masahiro Nakaoka, Hokkaido University; Mary I. O'Connor, University of British Columbia; Jeanine Olsen, University of Groningen; Jennifer L. Ruesink, University of Washington; Erik E. Sotka, College of Charleston; John J. Stachowicz, University of California, Davis; Jonas Thormar, University of Oslo; Matthew A. Whalen, University of California
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
 Evidence that patch size affects productivity and invasion in grassland ecosystems
Shannon Seahra, University of Guelph; Kathryn A. Yurkonis, University of North Dakota; Jonathan A. Newman, University of Guelph
3:40 PM
 Respiration, photosynthesis, and carbon partitioning among four tree species of tropical wet forest
Shinichi Asao, Colorado State University; James W. Raich, Iowa State University; Ann E. Russell, Iowa State University; Ricardo Bedoya-Arrieta, Organization for Tropical Studies; William J. Parton, Colorado State University; Michael G. Ryan, Colorado State University
4:00 PM
 Growing rocks: Implications of lithification to microbial community ecology in a desert stream
Jessica R. Corman, Arizona State University; Amisha Poret-Peterson, Arizona State University; Alisa Glukhova, Arizona State University; Valeria Souza, UNAM Instituto de Ecología; James J. Elser, Arizona State University
4:20 PM
 Variation in wood nutrient stoichiometry along a soil fertility gradient in a Panamanian montane forest
Katherine D. Heineman, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign; Benjamin L. Turner, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; James W. Dalling, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
4:40 PM
 Do we need to understand microbial community structure to predict function?
Diana Nemergut, University of Colorado; Emily B. Graham, University of Colorado at Boulder