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

COS 105 - Ecology of alpine, Arctic, and Antarctic systems

Thursday, August 9, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Willow Glen I, San Jose Marriott
8:00 AM
Nitrogen mobilization in early spring in the Arctic tundra
Kate M. Buckeridge, University of California, Santa Barbara; Paul Grogan, Queen's University
8:20 AM
What drives the soil microbial and nutrient declines at the end of the Arctic winter?
Kate A. Edwards, Canadian Forest Service - Natural Resources Canada
8:40 AM
Net primary production in mineral soils of a Polar desert
John E. Barrett, Virginia Polytechnic and State University; Ross A. Virginia, Dartmouth College; Diana H. Wall, Colorado State University; Byron J. Adams, Brigham Young University
9:00 AM
Effects of landscape age on small watershed carbon and nutrient fluxes in Arctic Alaska
Kyle A. Whittinghill, University of Michigan; Jacques C. Finlay, University of Minnesota; Sarah E. Hobbie, University of Minnesota
9:20 AM
Carbon flux on barren-ground caribou migratory trails in the tundra
Pamela C. O, University of British Columbia; Gregory H.R. Henry, University of British Columbia
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
Carbon balance of conifer seedlings at high elevations: Comparison of a treeline and non-treeline species
Sheel Bansal, USDA Forest Service; Matthew J. Germino, US Geological Survey
10:10 AM
Ecosystem consequences of elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration at the alpine treeline
I. Tanya Handa, Université du Québec à Montréal; Frank Hagedorn, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL); Stephan Hattenschwiler, Centre of Functional Ecology and Evolution
10:30 AM
Effects of long-term experimental warming on high Arctic soil seed banks
Rebecca A. Klady, University of British Columbia; Gregory HR Henry, University of British Columbia