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

COS 13 - Mycorrhizae: Plant-fungus relationships and ecosystem function

Monday, August 6, 2007: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Willow Glen II, San Jose Marriott
1:30 PM
Role of mycorrhizal networks in facilitating seedling establishment
François P. Teste, University of Alberta; Suzanne W. Simard, University of British Columbia; Daniel M. Durall, University of British Columbia Okanagan
1:50 PM
Mycorrhizal fungi provide nitrogen to N-limited plants: Effect of N deposition
John E. Hobbie, Marine Biological Laboratory; Erik A. Hobbie, University of New Hampshire
2:10 PM
Root uptake capacity of ammonium, nitrate, and glycine in red and white oak seedlings colonized by different species of ectomycorrhizas
Hormoz BassiriRad, University of Illinois at Chicago; Louise Egerton-Warburton, Chicago Botanic Garden; Harbans L. Sehtiya, University of Illinois at Chicago; John Lussenhop, University of Illinois at Chicago
2:30 PM
Cranberry plants and ericoid mycorrhizal fungi affect agroecosystem nitrogen recycling
Sarah M. Stackpoole, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Beth Ann A. Workmaster, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Kevin R. Kosola, University of Wisconsin - Madison
2:50 PM
Differential access to groundwater modulates the mycorrhizal response of oak trees to inter-annual rainfall variability in a California semiarid woodland
Jose I. Querejeta, Centro de Edafologia y Biologia Aplicada del Segura (CEBAS-CSIC); Louise Egerton-Warburton, Chicago Botanic Garden; Michael F. Allen, University of California
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
Exploring a plant-soil-mycorrhiza feedback with Rhododendron maximum in a temperate hardwood forest
Nina Wurzburger, University of Georgia; Ronald L Hendrick, University of Georgia
3:40 PM
The effects of cottonwood litter and litter extract on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
Jeff Piotrowski, University of Montana; Matthias C Rillig, University of Montana
4:20 PM
An evaluation of planting sites and mycorrhizal amendments for successful establishment of American Chestnut (Castanea dentata) in mine reclamation
Jenise M. Bauman, Miami University; Carolyn H. Keiffer, Miami University; Kirsten J. Lehtoma, USDA Forest Service; Shiv Hiremath, USDA Forest Service
4:40 PM
Effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on constitutive and induced plant resistances to spider mites
Takaaki Nishida, Kyoto University; Takayuki Ohgushi, Kyoto University