Session: Ecosystem Function (101st ESA Annual Meeting (August 7 -- 12, 2016))

PS 19-51

The independent and interactive roles of functional and phylogenetic diversity on leaf litter breakdown in streams
April E. Sparkman, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Christopher M. Swan, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

PS 19-52

Ecosystem carbon density across a chronosequence of longleaf pine forests in the southeastern United States
Lisa J. Samuelson, Auburn University; Tom A. Stokes, Auburn University; John R. Butnor, U.S. Forest Service; Kurt H. Johnsen, USDA Forest Service; Carlos Gonzalez-Benecke, Oregon State University; Pete Anderson, USDA Forest Service; Timothy A. Martin, University of Florida; Wendell P. Cropper Jr., University of Florida

PS 19-53

Effects of grazing and fire frequency on floristic quality and soil structure and function in tallgrass prairie
George C. Manning, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; Sara G. Baer, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

PS 19-54

Impacts of different large herbivores on ecosystem function: Cattle increase mean productivity, and wild herbivores reduce variability around the mean
Grace K. Charles, University of California, Davis; Lauren M. Porensky, USDA-ARS; Corinna Riginos, University of Wyoming; Kari E. Veblen, Utah State University; Truman Young, University of California, Davis

PS 19-55

Multiple stressors in a Caribbean dwarf mangrove ecosystem
Ryann E. Rossi, North Carolina State University; Stephanie K. Archer, Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Craig A. Layman, North Carolina State University

PS 19-56

Plants selected in monocultures and mixtures show variation in response to co-evolved arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
Terhi Hahl, University of Zurich; Cameron Wagg, University of Zurich; Gerlinde B. De Deyn, Wageningen University; Sofia J. van Moorsel, University of Zurich; Debra Zuppinger-Dingley, University of Zurich; Bernhard Schmid, University of Zurich

PS 19-57

The seasonal role of moisture and energy limitations to net ecosystem exchange along an elevational and latitudinal gradient in the Rocky Mountains, USA
David M. Barnard, University of Colorado; John F. Knowles, University of Colorado; Noah P. Molotch, University of Colorado; Marcy Litvak, University of New Mexico

PS 19-58

Evidence of allelopathic effects of Schinus terebinthifolius in plant biodiversity
Emily K. Faulconer, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

PS 19-59

Investigating the flat-tax hypothesis of ecosystem respiration: A case study with soil CO₂ efflux from fire maintained longleaf pine savannas
Susanne Wiesner, University of Alabama; Henry W. Loescher, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), University of Colorado; Christina L. Staudhammer, University of Alabama; Andres Baron, Odum School of Ecology; Lindsay R. Boring, Jones Center at Ichauway; Robert J. Mitchell, Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center; Gregory Starr, University of Alabama

PS 19-60

Effects of climate warming on the relationship between soil biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
Lauren Hale, University of Oklahoma; Colin Bates, University of Oklahoma; Xishu Zhou, Central South University; Xue Guo, University of Oklahoma; Daniel Curtis, University of Oklahoma; Jizhong Zhou, University of Oklahoma

PS 19-61

Effect of aspect and forest age on tree water use in the Panama Canal Watershed
Jazlynn Hall, University of Wyoming; Jefferson Hall, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Brent E. Ewers, University of Wyoming; Mario Bretfeld, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Daniel Beverly, University of Wyoming

PS 19 - Ecosystem Function