97th ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10, 2012)

PS 88 - Latebreaking: Arid And Semi-Arid Systems

Friday, August 10, 2012: 8:30 AM-10:30 AM
Exhibit Hall, Oregon Convention Center
Apparent competition in the Great Basin Desert: A test of small mammal facilitation of invasion by cheatgrass
Brock R. McMillan, Brigham Young University; Jacob E. Lucero, Brigham Young University; Eric D. Freeman, Brigham Young University; Eric J. Billman, Brigham Young University
Patch-level based vegetation change and environmental drivers in Tarim River drainage area, West China
Weijing Kong, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences; Xiaobo Jia, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences; Osbert J. Sun, Beijing Forestry University; Yuan Zhang, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences
Ammonia oxidation rates in soil are higher under legumes than under long-term, experimentally fertilized non-legume shrubs in the Sonoran Desert
Brenda Ramirez, Arizona State University; Yevgeniy Marusenko, Arizona State University; Sharon J. Hall, Arizona State University
Cancelled
PS 88-16
The effect of air humidity on decomposition in the dry season (widthdrawn)
Daniel Gliksman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Using spatially explicit data, geochemistry and modeling to inform ecological risk assessment for a proposed pit mine expansion
Deborah Rudnick, Integral Consulting Inc.; Les Williams, Integral Consulting Inc.; Jennifer Ortega, Newmont Mining Corporation; Mihai Aldea, Integral Consulting Inc.; Andrew Nicholson, Integral Consulting Inc
Cancelled
PS 88-18
Tradeoff between carbon sequestration and water resource in semiarid Loess Plateau (widthdrawn)
Xiaoming Feng, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Bojie Fu, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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