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

1:30 PM

COS 94-1

Forest ecosystem structure and function along a 100-year chronosequence
John E. Drake, University of Western Sydney; Evan H. DeLucia, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1:50 PM

COS 94-2

The influence of climate change on forest productivity: Simulations of altered temperature and CO₂ in the Lake States
John B. Bradford, U.S. Geological Survey; Peter B. Reich, University of Minnesota; Kirk Wythers, University of Minnesota

2:10 PM

COS 94-3

Species effects on stand-level nutrient economy of a Costa Rican rainforest
Tana E. Wood, USDA Forest Service; Ryan E. Emanuel, North Carolina State University; Katherine Tully, University of Virginia; Deborah Lawrence, University of Virginia

2:30 PM

COS 94-4

Nitrogen and phosphorus limitation of tree growth in two hardwood-conifer forests
Adrien C. Finzi, Boston University

2:50 PM

COS 94-5

Characterizing ecosystem CO₂ fluxes in different grasslands on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
Yanhong Tang, National Institute for Environmental Studies; Pengcheng Zhang, University of Tsukuba; Julia A. Klein, Colorado State University; Xinquan Zhao, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

3:10 PM

COS 94-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 94-6

Age-driven decline of forest productivity and respiration
Jianwu Tang, Marine Biological Laboratory; Sebastiaan Luyssaert, University of Antwerp; Andrew Richardson, University of New Hampshire; Werner Kutsch, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry; Ivan Janssens, University of Antwerp

3:40 PM

COS 94-7

Nutrient economics of a tropical rainforest in Queensland, Australia: Understanding how tree diversity affects ecosystem functioning
Sean M. Gleason, Macquarie University; Jenny Read, Monash University; Adrian Ares, Virginia Technical University; Daniel J. Metcalfe, CSIRO

4:00 PM

COS 94-8

Factors governing composition and production of freshwater stromatolitic mats in subtropical calcareous wetlands of the Caribbean
Evelyn Gaiser, Florida International University; Joel Trexler, Florida International University; Josette Marie La Hée, Florida International University

4:20 PM

COS 94-9

The role of seedling thinning as a plant N source: Seed density impacts plant production, nutrient uptake, and litter chemistry
Valerie T. Eviner, University of California Davis; Maria Uriarte, Columbia University

4:40 PM

COS 94-10

Carbon dioxide fluxes in an annual grassland in response to natural precipitation extremes and experimental global changes
Claire K. Lunch, National Ecological Observatory Network; Christopher Field, Stanford University

COS 94 - Ecosystem Function: NPP