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

1:30 PM

Associations with ectomycorrhizal fungi do not lead to greater soil carbon storage than arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in temperate forests
M. Luke McCormack, University of Minnesota; J. Franklin Egan, USDA ARS

1:50 PM

COS 120-2

Tracking the fate of nitrogen deposition in a spatially heterogeneous savanna landscape: A short-term ¹⁵N labeling experiment
Elise M. Tulloss, University of California, Davis; Mary L. Cadenasso, University of California, Davis

2:10 PM

COS 120-3

Integration of carbon fluxes and ground-based broadband vegetation indices (VIs) in a tropical dry forest in Western Mexico
Eugenia Gonzalez, University of California Davis; Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa, University of Alberta; Mauricio Quesada-Avendaño, UNAM; Kyaw Tha Paw U, University of California

2:30 PM

COS 120-4

Effects of roots and mycorrhizal fungi on soil carbon decomposition depend on soil mineralogy
Jessica A.M. Moore, The University of Tennessee; Courtney Patterson, University of Tennessee; Melanie A. Mayes, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Aimee Classen, University of Tennessee

2:50 PM

COS 120-5

Demographic history of Western European populations of the trace elements hyperaccumulator Noccaea caerulescens (Brassicaceae)
Cedric Gonneau, LSE, UMR1120, Université de Lorraine/INRA, University of Pennsylvania; Nausicaa Noret, Laboratoire d’Ecologie Végétale et Biogéochimie, Université libre de Bruxelles; Cécile Godé, Laboratoire Evolution Ecologie Paleontologie, CNRS UMR 8198, Université Lille Sciences et Technologies; Hélène Frérot, Laboratoire Evolution Ecologie Paleontologie, CNRS UMR 8198, Université Lille Sciences et Technologies; Catherine Sirguey, LSE, UMR1120, Université de Lorraine/INRA; Thibault Sterckeman, LSE, UMR1120, Université de Lorraine/INRA; Maxime Pauwels, Laboratoire Evolution Ecologie Paleontologie, CNRS UMR 8198, Université Lille Sciences et Technologies

3:10 PM

COS 120-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 120-6

Soil carbon stocks in subtropical pastures are strongly coupled to vegetative productivity over short timescales
Chris Wilson, University of Florida; T. Trevor Caughlin, University of Florida; Sami Walid Rifai, University of Florida; Elizabeth Hermanson Boughton, Archbold Biological Station; Michelle C. Mack, Northern Arizona University; Luke Flory, University of Florida

3:40 PM

COS 120-7

Nitrogen isotope composition of lichens traces a century of increased air pollution in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem from agricultural sources
Sarah Anderson, Washington State University; Shannon E. Albeke, University of Wyoming; David Williams, University of Wyoming; R. Dave Evans, Washington State University

4:00 PM

COS 120-8

Foundations of ecosystem science: Legacy of a classic paper (Odum 1969)
Jessica R. Corman, Arizona State University; Scott L. Collins, University of New Mexico; Elizabeth M. Cook, Universidad Austral de Chile; Chelsea L. Crenshaw, University of New Mexico; Xiaoli Dong, Arizona State University; Laureano Gherardi, Arizona State University; Nancy Grimm, Arizona State University; Rebecca L. Hale, University of Utah; Tao Lin, Arizona State University; Jorge Ramos Jr., Arizona State University; Lara G. Reichmann, USDA, Agricultural Research Service; Osvaldo E. Sala, Arizona State University

4:20 PM

COS 120-9

Disentangling variability of litter decomposition in semiarid ecosystems: A two-phase model linking leaf traits, photodecomposition and rainfall variability
A. Gaxiola, Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity, Laboratorio Internacional en Cambio Global (LINCGlobal, CSIC-PUC)

4:40 PM

COS 120-10

Substrate, pH, and charcoal controls on nitrogen cycling along a wildfire-induced age gradient
Erin Hanan, University of California, Santa Barbara; Joshua P. Schimel, University of California, Santa Barbara

COS 120 Ecosystem Ecology

COS 120
Ecosystem Ecology