Session: Ecosystem Function (93rd ESA Annual Meeting (August 3 -- August 8, 2008))

8:00 AM

Global primary productivity, respiration, litter decomposition, and climate: Revisiting a paradigm
Walter E. Auch III, FracTracker.org, Cleveland State University; Donald S. Ross, University of Vermont

8:20 AM

COS 112-2

Amino acids are immediately incorporated by soil microbes upon formation: For this reason, bioavailability of amino acids is probably much lower than currently measured
John E. Hobbie, Marine Biological Laboratory; Erik A. Hobbie, University of New Hampshire

8:40 AM

COS 112-3

Seasonal patterns and environmental controls on extracellular enzyme activity in a northern hardwood forest soil
Kurt A. Smemo, The Holden Arboretum; David J. Burke, The Holden Arboretum; Juan C. López-Gutiérrez, The Holden Arboretum; Charlotte R. Chan, The Holden Arboretum

9:00 AM

COS 112-4

Impacts of herbaceous understory vegetation on ecosystem dynamics in a semi-arid ecosystem undergoing woody encroachment
Anna P. Tyler, University of Arizona; Greg Barron-Gafford, University of Arizona; Russell Scott, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service; Travis E. Huxman, University of California, Irvine

9:20 AM

COS 112-5

Interactions between litterfall and roots in a lowland tropical forest
Emma J. Sayer, Lancaster University; E.V.J. Tanner, University of Cambridge

9:40 AM

COS 112-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 112-6

Pyric herbivory: Changing selectivity
Brady W. Allred, University of Montana; Samuel D. Fuhlendorf, Oklahoma State University

10:10 AM

COS 112-7

Arabidopsis thaliana as a model plant for studying ecosystem processes
Jenny Talbot, University of California Irvine; Kathleen K. Treseder, University of California, Irvine

10:30 AM

COS 112-8

Modeling multiple ecosystem services and tradeoffs at landscape scales
Erik J. Nelson, Bowdoin College; Guillermo Mendoza, Stanford University; Jim Regetz, University of California Santa Barbara; Steve Polasky, University of Minnesota; Heather Tallis, The Nature Conservancy; Dick Cameron, The Nature Conservancy - California; Kai Ming A. Chan, University of British Columbia; Gretchen Daily, Stanford University; Joshua Goldstein, The Nature Conservancy; Peter Kareiva, The Nature Conservancy; Eric Lonsdorf, University of Minnesota; Robin Naidoo, WWF-US; Taylor Ricketts, University of Vermont; M. Rebecca Shaw, The Nature Conservancy

10:50 AM

COS 112-9

Growth and development in urban ecosystems: A network approach to city organization
Antonio Bodini, University of Parma; Cristina Bondavalli, University of Parma

COS 112 - Ecosystem Function