Session: Ecosystem Function (100th ESA Annual Meeting (August 9 -- 14, 2015))

PS 21-206

Eutrophication and hypoxia degrade ecosystem functions and services of benthic communities in a New England estuary
Stephen S. Hale, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

PS 21-207

Water and nitrogen limitation on net primary production along topographical gradient of boreal steppe: In the perspective of climate change
Ariuntsetseg LKhagva, National University of Mongolia; Bazartseren Boldgiv, National University of Mongolia; Clyde Goulden, Drexel University; Otgonsuren Avirmed, Wildlife Conservation Organization; William K. Lauenroth, University of Wyoming

PS 21-208

Rubber plantations in Southeast Asia have high water use rates despite long dry season and annual defoliation
Thomas W. Giambelluca, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa; Ryan G. Mudd, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Wen Liu, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Alan D. Ziegler, National University of Singapore; Nakako Kobayashi, Nagoya University; Tomo'omi Kumagai, Nagoya University; Tiva K. Lim, Cambodia Rubber Research Institute; Maoyi Huang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Jefferson Fox, East-West Center

PS 21-209

Sensitivity of South American subtropical forests to precipitation variability at multiple time scales
Christine M. Lucas, Universidad de la República; Alejandro Brazeiro, Universidad de la República; Mauricio Ceroni, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

PS 21-210

Effects of fire and vegetation cover on ecohydrological processes in semiarid grasslands of central Mexico
Edith Maldonado Burgos, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica A. C. (IPICYT); Elisabeth Huber-Sanwald, Instituto Potosino de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnologica (IPICYT); Victor M. Reyes Gómez, Instituto de Ecologia, A.C.; Tulio Arredondo Moreno, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica A. C. (IPICYT); Carlos Muñoz Robles, Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi

PS 21-211

Carbon:Nitrogen balance in aquatic communities (closed ecological systems)
Frieda B. Taub, University of Washington; Anna K. McLaskey, University of Washington; Christina H. Tran, University of Washington

PS 21-212

Nutrients, not water, limit the distribution of forest at a tropical forest-savanna boundary in central Brazil
William A. Hoffmann, North Carolina State University; Erika Geiger, USGS; Sybil Gotsch, Franklin and Marshall College; Augusto, C. Franco, Universidade de Brasilia

PS 21-213

Titanium dioxide nanoparticles negatively affect microbes but not algae in stream ecosystems
Heather A. Bechtold, Lock Haven University; Zach J Hough, Lock Haven University; Hannah S. Walters, Lock Haven University

PS 21-214

The influence of human impacts on stream ecosystem function and plant growth
Heather A. Bechtold, Lock Haven University; Tyler M. Breech, Lock Haven University; Taylor L. Wallen, Lock Haven University; Jordan L. Whitmer, Lock Haven University

PS 21-215

Predation induced defense simultaneously increases metabolic cost and decreases resource acquisition rates, shifting ecosystem-level carbon partitioning and residence time in a multi-trophic level system
Elise K.Y. Krueger, University of Georgia; Ballantyne Ford IV, University of Georgia

PS 21 Ecosystem Function

PS 21
Ecosystem Function