Session: Carbon Cycling: Soils I (93rd ESA Annual Meeting (August 3 -- August 8, 2008))

1:30 PM

COS 3-1

Soil respiration following pulse precipitation events in the shortgrass steppe
Tyler Benton, Colorado School of Mines; Seth M. Munson, U.S. Geological Survey; William K. Lauenroth, University of Wyoming; Ingrid C. Burke, University of Wyoming

1:50 PM

COS 3-2

Non-linear responses of soil carbon dynamics to woody-plant encroachment in semi-arid ecosystems
Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman, University of Arizona; Korinna Duffy, University of Arizona; Anna P. Tyler, University of Arizona; Greg Barron-Gafford, University of Arizona; Travis E. Huxman, University of California, Irvine

2:10 PM

COS 3-3

Contribution of coarse woody debris to ecosystem respiration in an old-growth tropical rain forest
Luitgard Schwendenmann, University of Goettingen; Tesfay Ghebray, University of Goettingen; Deborah A. Clark, University of Missouri-St. Louis & University of Virginia; Steven F. Oberbauer, Florida International University

2:30 PM

COS 3-4

Estimation of soil respiration: Improved techniques for measurement of soil gas
J. Mark Blonquist Jr., Apogee Instruments, Inc.; Scott B. Jones, Utah State University; Bruce Bugbee, Utah State University

2:50 PM

COS 3-5

Soil carbon fluxes in sub-alpine ecosystems
Meaghan E. Jenkins, The University of New South Wales; Mark A. Adams, University of Sydney

3:10 PM

COS 3-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 3-6

Residue quality does not influence long-term soil carbon stabilization
Roberta Gentile, University of California, Davis; Pauline Chivenge, University of California, Davis; Bernard Vanlauwe, TSBF-CIAT; Johan Six, ETH

3:40 PM

COS 3-7

Carbon cycle impacts of earliest land plants inferred from studies of early-diverging modern liverworts
Linda E. Graham, University of Wisconsin; James M Graham, University of Wisconsin

4:00 PM

COS 3-8

Testing the relationship between fungal-to-bacterial dominance and carbon mineralization
Michael S. Strickland, Virginia Tech; Christian Davies, University of Georgia-Athens; Christian Lauber, University of Colorado at Boulder; Noah Fierer, University of Colorado; Mark A. Bradford, Yale University

4:20 PM

COS 3-9

Hierarchical controls on the accrual of physically protected soil carbon pools following tallgrass prairie restoration
Sarah L. O'Brien, Argonne National Laboratory; Julie D. Jastrow, Argonne National Laboratory; Miquel A. Gonzalez-Meler, University of Illinois at Chicago

4:40 PM

COS 3-10

Carbon balance of coastal forested wetlands
Asko Noormets, North Carolina State University; Michael Gavazzi, USDA Forest Service; Erika Cohen, USDA Forest Service; Jiquan Chen, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606; Steve G. McNulty, USDA Forest Service

COS 3 - Carbon Cycling: Soils I