COS 149 - Biogeochemistry: New Paradigms In Biogeochem Cycling III

Thursday, August 10, 2017: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
D132, Oregon Convention Center
1:30 PM
 Nutrient acquisition strategies promote high growth in tropical nitrogen fixing trees under elevated CO2
Megan K. Nasto, University of Montana; Klaus Winter, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Benjamin L. Turner, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Cory C. Cleveland, University of Montana
1:50 PM
 Dynamic role of nitrogen fixation in long-term net biomass accumulation in mature tropical forest
Jack Brookshire, Montana State University; Nina Wurzburger, University of Georgia; Bryce Currey, Montana State University; Duncan N. L. Menge, Columbia University; Mike Oatham, University of West Indies
2:10 PM
 Agriculture is a major source of NOx in California
Maya Almaraz, University of California, Davis; Edith Bai, Instituted of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Chao Wang, Instituted of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Ian Faloona, University of California, Davis; Justin Trousdell, University of California, Davis; Benjamin Z. Houlton, University of California, Davis
2:30 PM
 Over half of potential soil extracellular enzyme activity occurs below 20 cm
Nicholas C. Dove, University of California Merced; Keshav Arogyaswamy, University of California, Riverside; Chelsea J. Carey, Point Blue Conservation Science; Aaron Packman, Northwestern University; Stephen C. Hart, University of California; Emma L. Aronson, University of California, Riverside
2:50 PM
 Age and transit time distributions of biogeochemical elements in terrestrial ecosystems
Carlos A. Sierra, Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry; Verónika Ceballos, Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry; Holger Metzler, Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry; Markus Müller, Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
 Sustainability in the broadest possible sense: Optimizing ecological sanitation (EcoSan) for climate change mitigation, tight nutrient cycles, and resilient waste management
Gavin McNicol, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Sasha Kramer, Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL) Haiti; Rebecca Ryals, University of Hawaii at Manoa
3:40 PM
 Global riverine exports of nutrients: Translating fisheries into biogeochemical fluxes
Jessica R. Corman, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Cathy Reidy Liermann, University of Washington; Peter B. McIntyre, University of Wisconsin
4:00 PM Cancelled
 Potassium:  The Forgotten Element
Alan Townsend, University of Colorado; William Schlesinger, Nicholas School of the Environment
4:20 PM
 The carbon and nitrogen cycle collide in soil: An examination of the effects of switchgrass root exudates on soil denitrification
Kathryn Bloodworth, Michigan State University; William E. West, Michigan State University
4:40 PM
 Microbial community-level regulation explains soil carbon responses to long-term litter manipulations
Katerina Georgiou, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Rose Zheng Abramoff, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; John Harte, University of California; William J. Riley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Margaret S. Torn, University of California
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