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

COS 36 - Sustainability: Agriculture/Forestry

Tuesday, August 3, 2010: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
334, David L Lawrence Convention Center
Presider:
Meghann E. Jarchow
1:30 PM
Meeting future climate and population challenges to agriculture: Past as prelude?
Doug Gurian-Sherman, Union of Concerned Scientists; Noel P. Gurwick, Union of Concerned Scientists
2:30 PM
Fire and drought effects impede Scots pine regeneration at the forest-steppe ecotone
Thomas Wohlgemuth, Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL; Tabea Kipfer, Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL; Sarah Richter, Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL; Jaboury Ghazoul, ETH Zurich; Simon Egli, Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL; Barbara Moser, Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
The fate of fertilizer phosphorus in soy fields in Mato Grosso, Brazil
Shelby J. Hayhoe, Brown University; Stephen Porder, Brown University; Adelaine Michela Figueira, CENA, University of São Paulo; Christopher Neill, Marine Biological Laboratory
3:40 PM
Direct and interactive effects of plant stressors on winter wheat yields and crop-weed competition
Zachariah J. Miller, Montana State University; Fabian Menalled, Montana State University; Mary Burrows, Montana State University; Noelle Orloff, Montana State University
4:00 PM
Spatial patterns and availability of multiple ecosystem services-the effects of live fences in a tropical agricultural ecosystem
Kelly Garbach, Institute of Environmental Sustainability, Loyola University Chicago; Alejandra Martínez Salinas, Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza; Fabrice De Clerck, Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza; Valerie T. Eviner, University of California Davis
4:20 PM
The influence of agricultural trade and livestock production on the global phosphorus cycle
Meagan E. Schipanski, The Pennsylvania State University; Elena M. Bennett, McGill University; Graham K. MacDonald, University of Minnesota
4:40 PM
Weed community assembly in long-term organic and conventional management systems
Matthew R. Ryan, The Pennsylvania State University; Richard G. Smith, University of New Hampshire; David A. Mortensen, The Pennsylvania State University; Steven Mirsky, USDA-ARS Sustainable Agriculture Systems Laboratory; Rita Seidel, The Rodale Institute