Session: Biogeochemistry: Linking Community Structure And Ecosystem Function (97th ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10, 2012))

PS 68-40

Evolution of nutrient limitation along a 60,000 yr forest soil chronosequence in Llaima Volcano, Chile
María-Belén Gallardo, Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity; Cecilia A. Perez, Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity; Mariela C. Nuñez, Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity; Juan J. Armesto, Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity

PS 68-41

Atmospheric nitrogen deposition and soil fauna: The effect on litter decay process
Huijie Gan, University of Michigan; Mark D. Hunter, University of Michigan; Donald R. Zak, University of Michigan

PS 68-42

Biomass and CWD pools show complex multi-decade dynamics in old-growth northern hardwood forests
Kerry Woods, Bennington College

PS 68-43

Changes in site ecohydrology following the conversion of mesic grassland to shrubland
Jesse B. Nippert, Kansas State University; Troy W. Ocheltree, University of Minnesota; Zak Ratajczak, Kansas State University; Graciela L. Orozco, Kansas State University; Nathaniel Brunsell, University of Kansas

PS 68-44

Change in ecosystem structure due to widespread conifer mortality in Piñon-Juniper woodlands leads to rapid change in understory abundance detected using both field plots and remotely-sensed data
Eva Dettweiler-Robinson, University of New Mexico; Rosemary L. Pendleton, USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station; Daniel J. Krofcheck, University of New Mexico; Marcy Litvak, University of New Mexico

PS 68-45

Nutrient content of rocky intertidal macrophytes and its relation to environmental variability across a large biogeographic region
Sarah L. Close, Oregon State University; Francis Chan, Oregon State University; Karina J. Nielsen, San Francisco State University; Sally D. Hacker, Oregon State University; Bruce A. Menge, Oregon State University

Cancelled

PS 68-46

Forty years of forest measurements support the continuation of the Northeastern carbon sink (widthdrawn)
Katherine E. Eisen, Amherst College

PS 68-47

Analysis of Phosphoglucose Isomerase (PGI) within and among Habrotrocha rosa metapopulations
D. Liane Cochran-Stafira, Saint Xavier University; Tatiana Tatum Parker, Saint Xavier University

PS 68-48

Patterns of ammonia and nitrite oxidizing microbial diversity along the salinity gradient of the Cape Fear Estuary
Gregory D. O'Mullan, Queens College, CUNY; Simon Lax, Queens College, CUNY; Suzanne Young, University of South Florida; Bongkeun Song, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

PS 68 - Biogeochemistry: Linking Community Structure And Ecosystem Function