ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007)
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COS 144 - Detritus and decomposition

Friday, August 10, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
J3, San Jose McEnery Convention Center
8:00 AM
COS 144-1
Resource quality in a soil food web: Is nitrogen or labile carbon more important for soil nematodes?
Justin L. Bastow, University of California, Davis
8:20 AM
COS 144-2
Chemical quality of litter as a driver of detrital community assemblage in mineral soil
Yolima Carrillo, University of Western Sydney; Becky Ball, University of Georgia; Carl Jordan, University of Georgia; Marirosa Molina, ERD, EPA
8:40 AM
COS 144-3
Effects of solar radiation on litter decomposition in semi-arid grasslands: More to the ultraviolet than meets the eye?
Amy T. Austin, University of Buenos Aires, IFEVA-CONICET; Carlos L. Ballare, University of Buenos Aires
9:00 AM
COS 144-4
Interactions between photodegradation and litter thickness in a California annual grassland
Hugh Henry, University of Western Ontario; Kathleen Brizgys, Carnegie Institution; Christopher Field, Stanford University
9:20 AM
COS 144-5
Plant biochemistry and microbial community composition interactions determine litter decomposition dynamics
Kathryn L. Amatangelo, Brown University; Theodore K. Raab, Stanford University; Jason C. Neff, University of Colorado; Mark P. Waldrop, US Geological Survey; Peter M. Vitousek, Stanford University
9:40 AM
COS 144-
Break
9:50 AM
COS 144-6
The tropical litter continuum: Convergence of analytical techniques
Theodore K. Raab, Stanford University; Jason C. Neff, University of Colorado; Marc Kramer, University of California; Reinhard Jetter, University of British Columbia; Peter M. Vitousek, Stanford University
10:10 AM
COS 144-7
Influence of catchment suburbanization on leaf litter decomposition and microbial activity in four streams of southeastern New Hampshire
Anna Bourakovsky, University of New Hampshire; William H. McDowell, University of New Hampshire; Gretchen M. Gettel, University of New Hampshire
10:30 AM
COS 144-8
Three lines of evidence indicating that the sensitivity of organic matter decomposition to warming varies indirectly with its quality
Richard T. Conant, Queensland University of Technology; Rhad Drijber, University of Nebraska; Michelle L. Haddix, Colorado State University; William Parton, Colorado State University; Eldor A. Paul, Colorado State University; Alain F. Plante, University of Pennsylvania; Johan Six, ETH; J. Megan Steinweg, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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