Session: Sustainability: Agriculture/Forestry (101st ESA Annual Meeting (August 7 -- 12, 2016))

8:00 AM

COS 24-1

Coupling of above and belowground diversities sustain soil functions in traditional agriculture in Mexico
Simoneta Negrete-Yankelevich, INECOL; Ignacio Maldonado-Medoza, Instituto Politécnico Nacional; Esperanza Martínez-Romero, UNAM

8:20 AM

COS 24-2

ForestSim: An agent-based simulation of bioenergy sustainability
Mark Rouleau, Michigan Technological University; Ashma Vaidya, Michigan Technological University

8:40 AM

COS 24-3

Insect community response to switchgrass intercropping and timber stand ag
Myung-bok Lee, Mississippi State University; Joshua Campbell, University of Florida; James Martin, University of Georgia

9:00 AM

COS 24-4

Evaluating the water quality effects of short-rotation pine production for bioenergy using a watershed-scale experiment
Natalie A. Griffiths, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; C. Rhett Jackson, University of Georgia; Menberu Bitew, University of Georgia; Allison M. Fortner, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Jana R. Phillips, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Kitty McCracken, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Kevin Fouts, University of Georgia

9:20 AM

COS 24-5

Aboveground live-tree biomass and carbon storage 50 years after whole-tree and stem-only harvesting in a northern mixedwood forest
Bethany Muñoz, US Forest Service; Laura Kenefic, USDA Forest Service; Aaron Weiskittel, University of Maine; Ivan J. Fernandez, University of Maine; Jeffrey Benjamin, University of Maine; Shawn Fraver, University of Maine

9:40 AM

COS 24-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 24-6

Relation of absorptive root biomass to aboveground biomass of Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata) in Subtropical China
Yingchun Liao, Nanchang Institute of Technology; Houbao Fan, Nanchang Institute of Technology; Huiming Wang, Qianyanzhou Ecological Research Station, Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research

10:10 AM

COS 24-7

Suitability of global pasture land for row crop production
Ethan B. Davis, The Pennsylvania State University; Erica Smithwick, The Pennsylvania State University; Douglas H. Boucher, Union of Concerned Scientists; Alan H. Taylor, The Pennsylvania State University

10:30 AM

COS 24-8

Influence of using mycorrhiza and other amendments for revegetation of lead/zinc mining waste on plant growth, mycorrhizal root colonization, and soil microbial activity
Mariam Al-Lami, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Joel Burken, Missouri University of Science and Technology

10:50 AM

COS 24-9

Coffee and conservation in the tropics: Comparing abundance and survival of resident birds in shade plantations and forest remnants
Lina M. Sanchez-Clavijo, University of Central Florida; Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio, University of Central Florida; Nicholas J. Bayly, SELVA: Investigación para la Conservación en el Neotrópico

11:10 AM

COS 24-10

The composition and structural-component gradient of shortleaf pine (Pinus echinata Mill.) communities across the eastern U.S
James Rosson Jr., USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station; James M. Guldin, USDA Forest Service

COS 24 - Sustainability: Agriculture/Forestry