96th ESA Annual Meeting (August 7 -- 12, 2011)

PS 57 - Ecosystem Function

Thursday, August 11, 2011: 4:30 PM-6:30 PM
Exhibit Hall 3, Austin Convention Center
Automated rainfall manipulation system: A reliable, and inexpensive tool for experimental ecologists
Laureano A. Gherardi, Arizona State University; Osvaldo E. Sala, Arizona State University
A positive correlation between plant diversity and productivity is indirectly caused by environmental heterogeneity driving species composition in semiarid sandy grassland 
Xiaoan Zuo, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Xueyong Zhao, Cold and Arid Regions of Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Johannes (Jean) M. H. Knops, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Yuqiang Li, Cold and Arid Regions of Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences
The effects of species richness and endophyte infection on invasion of Festuca arundinacea
Emily A. Drystek, University of Guelph; Hafiz Maherali, University of Guelph; Kathryn Yurkonis, University of North Dakota
Land use change affects the abundance, species richness, and the predatory activity of ground-dwelling ants
Heraldo L. Vasconcelos, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia; Renata Pacheco, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia
Grasses and shrubs had different responses to nitrogen fertilization in the arid Patagonian Steppe
Laura Yahdjian, IFEVA-CONICET; Laureano A. Gherardi, Arizona State University; Osvaldo E. Sala, Arizona State University
Calcium-oxalate pools in forests of contrasting nutrient status
Jenny M. Dauer, Michigan State University; Steven Perakis, US Geological Survey
Effects of plant species diversity and genetic diversity on belowground communities and processes
Kerri M. Crawford, Washington University in St. Louis; Jennifer Rudgers, University of New Mexico
Diversity and function of dung beetles in subtropical grasslands
Christen H. Steele, Archbold Biological Station; Elizabeth Hermanson Boughton, Archbold Biological Station
Effects of invasive insects and fire on forest evapotranspiration and water use efficiency 
Kenneth L. Clark, USDA Forest Service; Nicholas Skowronski, USDA Forest Service; Michael Gallagher, USDA Forest Service; Karina VR Schafer, Rutgers University Newark; Heidi J. Renninger, Rutgers University
Tracking litter derived carbon in terrestrial ecosystems using stable isotopes
Jennifer L. Soong, Colorado State University; Uffe Nielson, Colorado State University; Karolien Denef, Colorado State University; William Parton, Colorado State University; Diana H. Wall, Colorado State University; M. Francesca Cotrufo, Colorado State University
Plant trait meta-analysis and flux data assimilation constraints on parameterizations of ecosystem models
David LeBauer, University of Illinois; Mike Dietze, University of Illinois
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