Session: Rhizoshpere: root function and root interactions (ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007))

8:00 AM

COS 75-1

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness: Lux expressing biosensors in the rhizosphere
Patrick M. Herron, Rowland Institute at Harvard; Catalina Arango Pinedo, University of Connecticut; Zane Haider, University of Connecticut; Daniel Gage, University of Connecticut; Zoe Cardon, University of Connecticut

8:20 AM

COS 75-2

Border cells and carbon in the rhizospheres of growth zones
Ryan E. O'Dell, University of California, Davis; Matthew A. Dumlao, University of California, Davis; Danial Samar, University of California, Davis; Wendy K. Silk, University of California, Davis

8:40 AM

COS 75-3

How does vegetation mediate mercury cycling in tidal wetlands? The roles of wetland plant physiological and decay processes
Lisamarie Windham-Myers, USGS; Mark Marvin-DiPasquale, United States Geological Survey

9:00 AM

COS 75-4

Soil moisture thresholds and seedling survival in Mediterranean environments
Francisco I. Pugnaire, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas; Francisco M. Padilla, Radboud University

9:20 AM

COS 75-5

Why is mesquite excluded from the eastern Edwards Plateau of central Texas?
Kathleen D. Eggemeyer, Texas State University; Susan Schwinning, Texas State University

9:40 AM

COS 75-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 75-6

Was Weaver wrong? Soil moisture dynamics and rooting depths of sandhills grasslands
David A. Wedin, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Walter H. Schacht, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Jerry D. Volesky, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Jeremy T. Hiller, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Nicholas Dobesh, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

10:10 AM

COS 75-7

Fine root diversity, density, and phenology among native hybridizing riparian trees at multiple elevations
Dylan Fischer, The Evergreen State College; Steve Hart, Northern Arizona University; Joe Bailey, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

10:30 AM

COS 75-8

Effects of elevated atmospheric CO₂ on root dynamics, biomass, and architecture in a scrub-oak ecosystem at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA
Daniel Stover, US Department of Energy; Frank P. Day, Old Dominion University; John R. Butnor, U.S. Forest Service; C. Ross Hinkle, University of Central Florida; Bert G. Drake, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

10:50 AM

COS 75-9

Fine root dynamics in a loblolly pine forest exposed to FACE: An eight year minirhizotron study
Seth G. Pritchard, College of Charleston; Allan E. Strand, College of Charleston; M. Luke McCormack, University of Minnesota; Micheal A. Davis, University of Southern Mississippi; Ram Oren, Duke University

11:10 AM

COS 75-10

Elevated CO₂ increases N rhizodeposition and microbial immobilization of root-derived N
Marie-Anne de Graaff, Boise State University; Johan Six, ETH; Chris van Kessel, University of California-Davis

COS 75 - Rhizoshpere: root function and root interactions