2017 ESA Annual Meeting (August 6 -- 11)

OOS 48 - Plant-Soil Interactions in a Changing World: Exploring the Interface Between Global Change Drivers and Plant-Soil Feedbacks

Friday, August 11, 2017: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Portland Blrm 254, Oregon Convention Center
Organizer:
Sara E. Kuebbing
Co-organizer:
Andrew Kulmatiski
Moderator:
Andrew Kulmatiski
Global climate change, invasion by nonnative species, and loss of biodiversity are changing communities, ecosystem processes, and the ecosystem services they provide. Concurrently, new technologies are enabling our ability to study soil ecosystems and how belowground microbial diversity is critical for understanding long-studied aboveground ecosystem responses. This session will explore how global change drivers coupled with our understanding of plant-soil interactions are changing our expectations of how above- and belowground communities and ecosystems will look in the future. We then expand to include how we should adapt our management of these ecosystems to maintain biodiversity and critical ecosystem processes. This session will bring together researchers working across diverse ecosystems—dunes, dry grasslands, forests, prairies, and shrublands—and a diversity of approaches—from molecular-level to ecosystem-level and empirical to theoretical—to explore this topic. The session will be broadly divided into two main sections: First, we will bring together basic research addressing how climate change, invasive species, and the changing diversity of both above- and belowground organisms can alter expectations of how plants and soil organisms interact with one another and successional trajectories of these interactions. Second, we will shift our focus to how this enhanced understanding of global change and plant-soil feedbacks might alter our management and restoration efforts.
8:00 AM
What factors influence plant-soil feedback? Testing the effects of historical and contemporary water availability on interspecific and intraspecific plant-soil feedback
Kerri M. Crawford, University of Houston; Anna P. Hawkins, University of Houston; Christine V. Hawkes, University of Texas
8:20 AM
Biodiversity-ecosystem functioning under climate change: The role of phylogenetic diversity and soil microbes
Claudia Stein, Washington University in St. Louis; Scott A. Mangan, Washington University in St. Louis
8:40 AM
Native predators and invasive plants interact to alter the role of plant-soil feedback as an invasion driver
Lauren M. Smith-Ramesh, National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis
9:00 AM
Community-level plant-soil feedbacks explain separation of native and non-native plant communities on the landscape
Andrew Kulmatiski, Utah State University; Josephine Grenzer, Utah State University; Karen Beard, Utah State University; Leslie Forero, Utah State University
9:20 AM
Evolution due to climate warming alters the linkage between genes and ecosystems
Ian M. Ware, University of Tennessee; Joseph K. Bailey, University of Tennessee; Jennifer A. Schweitzer, University of Tennessee; Michael E. Van Nuland, University of Tennessee; Christopher Schadt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; David M. Wagner, Northern Arizona University; Joseph D. Busch, Northern Arizona University
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
Soil microbial communities of a field plant-soil feedback experiment
Leslie Forero, Utah State University; Andrew Kulmatiski, Utah State University; Jeanette M. Norton, Utah State University; Josephine Grenzer, Utah State University
10:10 AM
How climate change and plant-soil microbiomes influence plant-genotype interactions in a dominant grass species
Lara Souza, University of Oklahoma; Katharine L. Stuble, The Holden Arboretum
10:30 AM
Plant-soil feedbacks and secondary succession: How feedbacks shape plant community response to disturbance and restoration efforts
Jonathan Bauer, NA; Tanya E. Cheeke, Indiana University; Liz Koziol, Indiana University; Heather L. Reynolds, Indiana University; James D. Bever, University of Kansas
11:10 AM
Restoration 2.0: Does reintroducing native soil organisms improve plant restoration efforts?
Tanya E. Cheeke, Indiana University; James D. Bever, University of Kansas