Session: Grasslands and Steppe (93rd ESA Annual Meeting (August 3 -- August 8, 2008))

8:00 AM

COS 24-1

Ecosystem recovery is affected by soil texture in tallgrass prairie
Clinton K. Meyer, Simpson College; Sara G. Baer, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; Johan Six, ETH

8:20 AM

COS 24-2

Heterogeneity of roots and resources during biological invasion of native prairie
Brenda M. Vaness, Western Ag Innovations, Inc.; Scott D. Wilson, University of Regina; Andrew S. MacDougall, University of Guelph

8:40 AM

COS 24-3

Consequences of climate variability for the performance of bison in two tallgrass prairies
Joseph M. Craine, Kansas State University; Anthony Joern, Kansas State University; Gene Towne, Kansas State University; Bob Hamilton, The Nature Conservancy; Matt Poole, The Nature Conservancy

9:00 AM

COS 24-4

The role of population source and dominance on plant community diversity and productivity in a prairie restoration
Ryan P. Klopf, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; Ryan E. Campbell, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; Sara G. Baer, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

9:20 AM

COS 24-5

A generalist tymovirus of the tallgrass prairie
Michael W. Palmer, Oklahoma State University; Vaskar Thapa, Oklahoma State University; Marilyn Roossinck, Pennsylvania State University; Ulrich Melcher, Oklahoma State University

9:40 AM

COS 24-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 24-6

A multiple-scale analysis of air temperature and monsoonal precipitation as controls over CO₂ fluxes across a woody encroachment gradient: Implications for an interaction Between climatic and vegetative cover change
Greg A. Barron-Gafford, University of Arizona; Russell Scott, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service; G. Darrel Jenerette, University of California; Anna P. Tyler, University of Arizona; Travis E. Huxman, University of California, Irvine

10:10 AM

COS 24-7

Temporal and site property effects on root and soil respiration across a heterogeneous grassland ecosystem, Yellowstone National Park
Michele A. Thorne, Syracuse University; Douglas A. Frank, Syracuse University

10:30 AM

COS 24-8

Landscape changes on the Apalachicola National Forest, a fire dependent ecosystem
Charels A. Hess, Florida State University; Antoine Laniray, Florida State University

10:50 AM

COS 24-9

Nitrogen partitioning among microbes and two plant functional groups in the shortgrass steppe
Eliana E. Bontti, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology Colorado State University; Ingrid C. Burke, University of Wyoming

11:10 AM

COS 24-10

Effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on productivity and soil nutrients of cultivar and non-cultivar warm-season prairie grasses
Ryan E. Campbell, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

COS 24 - Grasslands and Steppe