Session: Agriculture (ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007))

PS 56-1

The future of trees in La Sepultura Biosphere Reserve buffer zone, Chiapas, Mexico: Woody cover and sapling recruitment in a silvo-pastoral landscape
ColibrÃ Sanfiorenzo-Barnhard, Grupos Ambientales Interdisciplinarios Aliados-GAIA; Luis GarcÃa-Barrios, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur; NeptalÃ RamÃrez-Marcial, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur; Romeo J. Trujillo-VÃ¡zquez, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur; Elvia MelÃ©ndez-Ackerman, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras

PS 56-2

Efficiency and ecological impacts of biofuels
D. S. Novem Auyeung, Purdue University; Melinda Gammon, University of Massachusetts; Heather Charles, University of Massachusetts; Benjamin Ramage, Randolph-Macon College; Jeffrey Dukes, Purdue University

PS 56-3

Dissolved organic carbon losses from rice agroecosystems under various straw and water management practices
Matthew D. Ruark, University of California-Davis; Bruce A. Linquist, University of California-Davis; Chris van Kessel, University of California-Davis; Johan Six, ETH; Chris A Greer, University of California-Davis; Randall G Mutters, University of California-Davis; Jim E Hill, University of California-Davis

PS 56-4

Vineyard floor management: Effects on soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics
Kerri L. Steenwerth, USDA-ARS

PS 56-5

Changes in strength and direction of weed and crop-soil feedbacks as a function of fertilizer and soil pasteurization
MaryClare Rollins, Montana State University; Richard G. Smith, University of New Hampshire; Fabian Menalled, Montana State University

PS 56-6

Long-term impact of reduced tillage and residue management on soil carbon stabilization
Pauline P. Chivenge, University of California; Herbert K. Murwira, TSBF-CIAT; Ken E. Giller, Wageningen University; Paul Mapfumo, University of Zimbabwe; Johan Six, ETH

PS 56-7

Effect of phosphorus substrate amendment on arsenic uptake and translocation in shrub willow (Salix spp)
Emily E. Pulley, University of North Carolina; Lawrence B. Smart, State University of New York- College of Environmental Science and Forestry; Jason J. Purdy, State University of New York- College of Environmental Science and Forestry

PS 56-8

Cover crop effects on natural enemies of the Colorado potato beetle
Zsofia Szendrei, Michigan State University; Daniel L. Rowley, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service; Donald C. Weber, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service

PS 56-9

Microhabitat selection and movements of harvestmen (Opiliones: Phalangida) in gardens
Timothy J. Bankroff, Miami University; Alan B. Cady, Miami University

PS 56-10

Restoring ecological balance to orchard insect pest management
Mark W. Brown, Appalachian Fruit Research Station; Clarissa R. Mathews, Shepherd University

PS 56-11

Achieving restoration goals while reducing regulatory and pest burdens on farmers and stakeholders
Kristen Strohm, EDAW, Inc.; Ron L. Unger, EDAW, Inc.; Tracy Walker, EDAW, Inc.; Melanie Allen Truan, University of California

PS 56-12

Increasing the pest control services provided by flowering plants in agroecosystems
Anna K. Fiedler, Michigan State University; Doug A. Landis, Michigan State University

PS 56-13

Make way for maggots: The landscape ecology of aphid predators in California broccoli
Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer, Stanford University; Claire Kremen, University of British Columbia

PS 56-14

A comparison of avian ectoparasite populations found in four different habitats of the coffee agroecosystem of Chiapas, Mexico
Katherine E. Goodall, University of Michigan; Ivette Perfecto, University of Michigan; Johannes Foufopoulos, University of Michigan

PS 56-15

Foraging behavior and food resources of forest-associated birds in coffee agroecosystems
Casey L. Taylor, Oregon State University; Ivette Perfecto, University of Michigan

PS 56-16

Relationships of random roughness and soil depression storage on coffee farms of varying shade levels
Brenda B. Lin, CSIRO; Paul L. Richards, SUNY Brockport

PS 56-17

Bird predation decreases arthropod abundance and biomass in three coffee farms in the Blue Mountains, Jamaica
Natalie J. Levy, University of California Berkeley; Matthew D. Johnson, Humboldt State University

PS 56-18

Comparing the demography of a forest herb, Trillium grandiflorum, in hedgerow corridors and forest patches
Reto Schmucki, Stockholm University; Sylvie deBlois, McGill University

PS 56-19

Vinecology:Â A partnership to better understand the ecology of vineyards and surrounding working landscapes
Joshua H. Viers, University of California, Merced; T. Rodd Kelsey, The Nature Conservancy

PS 56-20

Effect of priming, water stress, and mulch on the survival of Dodonaea viscosa (L) Jacq. for ecological restoration in Mexico
ErÃ©ndira Araiza-RamÃrez, Instituto de Ecologia; Alma Orozco-Segovia, Instituto de EcologÃa, Universidad Nacional AutÃ³noma de MÃ©xico; VÃctor L. Barradas, Instituto de Ecologia

PS 56-21

Extractivism of non-timber forest resources in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest: the Rumohra adiantiformis (G. Forest) Ching case
Jorge E. A. SuÃ¡rez, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul; Lovois A. Miguel, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul; Gabriela C. Souza, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

PS 56-22

Species composition changes after three years of goat grazing exclosure in the Tenerife pastures
JosÃ© RamÃ³n ArÃ©valo, Universidad de La Laguna; Lea de Nascimento, University of La Laguna; Celia GarcÃa, Universidad de La Laguna; Eduardo Chinea, Universidad de La Laguna; Silvia FernÃ¡ndez, Universidad de La Laguna

PS 56-23

Influence of grazing on the spatial heterogeneity of soil-surface temperature
Ryan Limb, Oregon State University; Samuel D. Fuhlendorf, Oklahoma State University; Darrel E. Townsend, Grand River Dam Authority

PS 56-24

Soil respiration and N₂O emissions under patches dominated by C_3Âand C₄ grasses, and forbs in the short-grass steppe: Influence of fungal and bacterial activity
Eliana E. Bontti, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology Colorado State University; Indy C. Burke, Natural Resources Ecology Lab. (NREL), Colorado State University

PS 56-25

High-impact grazing increases soil nutrient supply and exotic plant invasion
Matthew R. R. Loeser, Yakima Valley Community College; Thomas D. Sisk, Northern Arizona University; Tim Crews, Prescott College; Andrea E. L. Redman, Western Ag Innovations, Inc.

PS 56 - Agriculture