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

COS 61 - Carbon cycling: Soil processes

Wednesday, August 8, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
J2, San Jose McEnery Convention Center
8:00 AM
Carbon sequestration in soils of rehabilitated plantations on severely eroded lands in tropical China
Zhi An Li, South China Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Wei Gu, South China Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Bi Zou, South China Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Wan Neng Tan, South China Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Ning Yu Li, South China Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences
8:20 AM
Long-term influence of woody plant removal on soil organic carbon pools in a semi-desert grassland
Heather L. Throop, New Mexico State University; Steven R. Archer, University of Arizona; Mitchel P. McClaran, University of Arizona
8:40 AM
Soil respiration responses to precipitation pulse-dynamics in a piñon-juniper ecosystem
S.Andra White, University of New Mexico; William T. Pockman, University of New Mexico; Nate G. McDowell, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Michael G. Ryan, Colorado State University; Enrico Yepez, University of New Mexico
9:00 AM
Causes of spatial and temporal variation in soil respiration along a Rocky Mountain riparian-meadow ecotone
Andrew B. Moyes, University of California, Merced; David R. Bowling, University of Utah
9:20 AM
Forest restoration, carcoal, and carbon storage in the Rocky Mountain West
Thomas H. DeLuca, Bangor University; Gregory H. Aplet, The Wilderness Society
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
Tree species effects on soil organic matter dynamics in a common-garden study
Sarah E. Hobbie, University of Minnesota; Megan Ogdahl, University of Minnesota; Jon Chorover, University of Arizona; Oliver A. Chadwick, University of California; Jacek Oleksyn, Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Dendrology; Roma Zytkowiak, Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Dendrology; Peter B. Reich, University of Minnesota
10:10 AM
in situ glycine mineralization is closely correlated to SOM turnover across six North American forest ecosystems that vary in substrate quantity and quality
Jack W. McFarland, Institute of Arctic Biology; Roger W. Ruess, Institute of Arctic Biology; Knut Kielland, Institute of Arctic Biology
10:30 AM
Soil CO2 efflux and plant production across a chronosequence of tallgrass prairie reconstructions, Iowa, USA
Ryan M. Maher, Iowa State University; Heidi Asbjornsen, University of New Hampshire; Randall K. Kolka, USDA Forest Service
10:50 AM
Soil carbon saturation limits soil organic carbon responses to global change
Johan Six, ETH; Haegeun Chung, University of California-Davis; Alain F. Plante, University of Pennsylvania; Catherine E. Stewart, University of Colorado, Boulder; Sabrina Gulde, University of California - Davis; Dorien M. Kool, University of California - Davis; Richard T. Conant, Queensland University of Technology; Keith Paustian, Colorado State University
11:10 AM
Soil carbon sequestration: Patterns and processes over 100 years of succession
Robyn L. Foote, Queen's University; Paul Grogan, Queen's University