COS 106
Sustainability: Agriculture/Forestry II

Thursday, August 14, 2014: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Bondi, Sheraton Hotel
8:00 AM Cancelled
COS 106-1
 Environmental restoration potential of an economically viable agroecological agroforestry system from the Brazilian Atlantic Rain Forest Region
Eduardo Seoane, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation - EMBRAPA; Luis C. M. Froufe, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation - EMBRAPA; Fabiane M. Vezzani, UFPR-Universidade Federal do Paraná; Manoel F. Lesama, UFPR-Universidade Federal do Paraná; Regiane Fonini, UFPR-Universidade Federal do Paraná; Soraya Redua, UTP - Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná; Martin Ewert, UFSC- Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina; Getulio Shtorache, UFPR-Universidade Federal do Paraná; Daniel Schwiderke, UFPR-Universidade Federal do Paraná; Raul M. Cezar, UFPR-Universidade Federal do Paraná; Jimi Amaral-Silva, UFPR-Universidade Federal do Paraná; Walter Steenbock, ICMBio - Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade
8:20 AM
COS 106-2
 Genotypic diversity and forage productivity:  Meeting the challenges of increased demand and climate change in perennial forage systems
Fredric W. Pollnac, University of New Hampshire; Nicholas D. Warren, University of New Hampshire; Richard G. Smith, University of New Hampshire
8:40 AM
COS 106-3
 The implications of tropical deforestation and agriculture on landscape-scale nitrogen cycling
Efrat Sheffer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
9:00 AM Cancelled
COS 106-4
 Social involvement as a key to maintain healthy pine forest in Oaxaca, Mexico
Adrian Poloni, Fulbrigh Garcia Robles; Elvira Duran, CIIDIR-Oaxaca, Instituto Politécnico Nacional
9:20 AM
COS 106-5
 Optimizing plant-microbe interactions for sustainable supply of nitrogen
Marcus Schicklberger, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Dominique Loque, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1; Stefan Jenkins, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Trent R. Northen, Joint Genome Institute; Romy Chakraborty, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
9:40 AM
COS 106-
 Break
9:50 AM
COS 106-6
 The effects of water-table depth on carbon dioxide emissions for oil palm cultivation on peatlands
Lael K. Goodman, Union of Concerned Scientists; Kimberly M. Carlson, University of Minnesota; Calen C. May-Tobin, Union of Concerned Scientists
10:10 AM
COS 106-7
 Landscape genetics and the biological control of walnut aphids in California
Jeremy Catalin Andersen, University of California Berkeley; Nicholas J. Mills, University of California - Berkeley
10:30 AM
COS 106-8
 Physiological bases of frost mitigation in trees
Or Sperling, University of California; Francesca Secchi, University of Turin; Maciej A. Zwieniecki, UC Davis
10:50 AM
COS 106-9
 How mature forests alter the microclimate of forests regenerating after disturbance
Thomas P. Baker, University of Tasmania; Gregory J. Jordan, University of Tasmania; Sue C. Baker, University of Tasmania
11:10 AM
COS 106-10
 Can organic matter additions to rangelands mitigate climate change?
Marcia DeLonge, University of California, Berkeley; Whendee L. Silver, University of California, Berkeley
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