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

COS 25 - Ecosystem function: Carbon, energy, and NPP

Tuesday, August 7, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
K, San Jose McEnery Convention Center
8:00 AM
Heat storage and energy balance closure across five forests of different ages
Nan Lu, Chinese Academy of Science; Asko Noormets, North Carolina State University; Jiquan Chen, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606
8:20 AM
Partitioning sources of complexity: Teasing out species-environment interactions in a replicated mesocosm experiment
Deane Wang, University of Vermont; Corrie A. Blodgett, University of Vermont; Carl Waite, University of Vermont; Gary Hawley, University of Vermont; Donald DeHayes, University of Vermont
8:40 AM
Interactive effects of atmospheric and climate change on aboveground production in a constructed old-field ecosystem
Courtney E. Campany, University of Idaho; Jake Weltzin, US Geological Survey; Richard J. Norby, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Aimee T. Classen, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Cayenne E. Engel, University Of Tennessee; Orla C. Dermody, University Of Tennessee
9:00 AM
Responses of NPP, nutrient availability, and nutrient loss in a California grassland exposed to multifactor global change
Noel P. Gurwick, Union of Concerned Scientists; Chris Field, Carnegie Institution for Science; Nona Chiariello, Stanford University; Peter M. Vitousek, Stanford University
9:20 AM
Decadal scale impacts of C4 grass reintroductions on soil carbon and nitrogen cycling in successional ecosystems
Wendy M. Mahaney, ENVIRON International Corp.; Kurt A. Smemo, The Holden Arboretum; Katherine L. Gross, Michigan State University
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
Effects of experimental throughfall exclusion on forest structure and the aboveground net primary productivity of an Amazonian forest
Paulo M. Brando, Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia (IPAM); Daniel C. Nepstad, Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia (Amazon Institute of Environmental Research); David Ray, Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy
10:10 AM
Interannual variation in forest carbon exchange as affected by spring storms in coastal eastern US
Asko Noormets, North Carolina State University; Michael Gavazzi, USDA Forest Service; Ge Sun, USDA Forest Service; Steve G. McNulty, USDA Forest Service
10:30 AM
Are all ecosystem functions equal or are some more equal than others? Results from the restoration of a montane blanket bog in Ireland
David Wilson, University of Minnesota; Louise Deering, University College Dublin; Nicholas Clipson, University College Dublin; Fiona Doohan, University College Dublin
10:50 AM
Seasonal changes in carbon and water fluxes under different land uses in the Orinoco lowlands
José J. San-José Sr., Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas; Rubén A. Montes Sr., Universidad Simón Bolívar; Nina Nikonova, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas