95th ESA Annual Meeting (August 1 -- 6, 2010)

COS 37 - Photosynthesis and Gas Exchange Measurement & Rhizosphere and Root Function

Tuesday, August 3, 2010: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
335, David L Lawrence Convention Center
Presider:
Richard Phillips
1:30 PM
Carbon dioxide capture from a point source using the microalgae Chlorella vulgaris.
Kenneth Kofiga Zame, Youngstown State University; Douglas Price, Youngstown State University
1:50 PM
Physiographic position and vegetative cover modulate the influence of temperature and precipitation as controls over leaf and ecosystem level CO2 flux in semiarid ecosystems
Greg A. Barron-Gafford, University of Arizona; Russell L. Scott, USDA-ARS; G. Darrel Jenerette, University of California; Erik Hamerlynck, USDA-ARS; Travis E. Huxman, University of California, Irvine
2:10 PM
Effect of smoke on plant physiology: Is smoke bad for tobacco too?
Peter D. Cowan, University of Calfornia at Berkeley; Max A. Moritz, University of California, Berkeley
2:30 PM
PrometheusWiki: Protocols, methods, explanations and updated standards for ecological and environmental plant physiology
Adrienne B. Nicotra, The Australian National University; Lawren Sack, UCLA; Louis Santiago, University of California, Riverside; Will Cornwell, Vrije University
2:50 PM
Evaluating uncertainties in sap flux Scaled estimates of forest transpiration, canopy conductance, and photosynthesis
Eric J. Ward, Northwest Fisheries Science Center; David M. Bell, University of Wyoming; James Clark, Duke University; Hyun S. Kim, Duke University; Ram Oren, Duke University
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
Defining maximum carrying capacity in loblolly pine: Results from a long-term study in Hawaii
Lisa J. Samuelson, Auburn University; Tom A. Stokes, Auburn University; John R. Butnor, U.S. Forest Service
4:00 PM
Consequences of shifts in ectomycorrhizal community composition under elevated CO2 and n on carbon inputs to forest soils
Ina C. Meier, Indiana University; Peter G. Avis, Indiana University Northwest; Emily Bernhardt, Duke University; Richard Phillips, Indiana University
4:20 PM
Root biomass estimated by minirhizotrons and ground-penetrating radar after 11 years of atmospheric CO2 enrichment in a Florida scrub ecosystem
Rachel E. Schroeder, Old Dominion University; Frank P. Day, Old Dominion University; Daniel Stover, US Department of Energy; Alisha L. P. Brown, Norfolk Botanical Garden Society; John R. Butnor, U.S. Forest Service; Bert G. Drake, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center; C. Ross Hinkle, University of Central Florida
4:40 PM
Comparison in fine root architectural patterns among six coexisting tree species in a broad-leaf temperate forest
Oscar J. Valverde, Kent State University; Larry M. Feinstein, Kent State University; Kurt A. Smemo, The Holden Arboretum; Mark W. Kershner, Kent State University; Christopher Blackwood, Kent State University