Session: Soil ecology (ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007))

8:00 AM

COS 37-1

Using geophysics to explore soils and plant community structure
David A. Robinson, University of West Indies; Inma Lebron, University of West Indies; Scott B. Jones, Utah State University; Hiruy Abdu, Utah State University

8:20 AM

COS 37-2

Comparing soil mesofauna communities using large-scale DNA sequencing
Tiehang Wu, University of South Florida; James R. Garey, University of South Florida; Stefica Depovic, University of South Florida; Edward Ayres, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON); Diana H. Wall, Colorado State University; Richard Bardgett, Lancaster University

8:40 AM

COS 37-3

Finding our roots: A PCR-based method for species identification in mixed root samples of grassland species
Gordon G. McNickle, Wilfrid Laurier University; James F. Cahill Jr., University of Alberta; Michael K. Deyholos, University of Alberta

9:00 AM

COS 37-4

Human trampling reduces soil faunal populations and soil respiration in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Edward Ayres, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON); Johnson N. Nkem, Center for International Forestry Research; Diana H. Wall, Colorado State University; Breana L Simmons, Colorado State University; Byron J. Adams, Brigham Young University; John E. Barrett, Virginia Polytechnic and State University; Ross A. Virginia, Dartmouth College

9:20 AM

COS 37-5

Linking aboveground and belowground diversity and soil properties in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Breana L. Simmons, Colorado State University; Diana H. Wall, Colorado State University; Byron J. Adams, Brigham Young University; Ed Ayres, Colorado State University; John E. Barrett, Virginia Polytechnic and State University; Ross A. Virginia, Dartmouth College

9:40 AM

COS 37-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 37-6

Plant, soil, and environmental factors controlling rhizosphere effects on soil organic matter decomposition
Weixin Cheng, University of California at Santa Cruz; Feike A. Dijkstra, University of Sydney; Nicholas E. Bader, Whitman College

10:10 AM

COS 37-7

Are intensive pine plantation establishment practices sustainable? An assessment of soil carbon and nitrogen in successive loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L) plantations in the southeastern United States
Jennifer Phelan, North Carolina State University; H. Lee Allen, North Carolina State University; David Blevins, North Carolina State University

10:30 AM

COS 37-8

The relative contribution of reduced decomposition and vertical dispersion to the increase in soil organic matter turnover time with depth
Steven De Gryze, University of California, Davis; Kristof Van Oost, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; Jeroen Gillabel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; Johan Six, ETH

10:50 AM

COS 37-9

Dissolved organic matter in upland soils: Fluxes, chemistry, and its importance in the terrestrial C cycle
Jonathan Sanderman, CSIRO; Ronald Amundson, University of California, Berkeley

11:10 AM

COS 37-10

Impact of the red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta) on soil arthropods of a cotton agroecosystem
Kyle G. Wickings, University of Georgia; John R. Ruberson, University of Georgia; Dave C. Coleman, University of Georgia

COS 37 - Soil ecology