COS 84 - Agriculture I

Thursday, August 15, 2019: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
M105/106, Kentucky International Convention Center
Presider:
Binod Basyal
1:30 PM
Improving nutrient delivery with plant root responsive slow-release fertilizer coatings
Spencer Michael Heuchan, University of Western Ontario; Hugh Henry, University of Western Ontario; Elizabeth R. Gillies, University of Western Ontario
1:50 PM
Semi-natural landscape cover and crop characteristics mediate pest reduction by birds in an intensive agricultural region
Sacha K. Heath, Living Earth Collaborative, Washington University, University of California, Davis; Rachael Long, University of California Cooperative Extension
2:10 PM
Interactions with below-ground organisms alter biomass quality of a candidate bioenergy crop
Binod Basyal, University of Louisville; Sarah Emery, University of Louisville
2:30 PM
Transitions to agroecological management: Effects of increased crop functional diversity vary along environmental gradients
Anne Elise Stratton, University of Michigan; Jennifer Blesh, University of Michigan
2:50 PM
The services and disservices of birds in California Central Coast strawberries
Karina Garcia, University of Kentucky; David Gonthier, University of California-Berkeley; Daniel Karp, University of California; Elissa M. Olimpi, University of California, Davis; Amber R. Sciligo, The Organic Center; Adrian Lu, U.C. Berkeley; Claire Kremen, University of California Berkeley
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
Nutrient retention and ecosystem services of managed agricultural landscapes of the upper Midwest USA
Shawn Dayson Shifflett, ORISE; Tammy Newcomer-Johnson, USEPA; Brian Dyson, US Environmental Protection Agency; Doug Jones, USEPA Region 7; Amy Shields, USEPA Region 7; Kenneth J. Forshay, United States Environmental Protection Agency
3:40 PM
Managing cover crop mixtures to reduce soil N2O flux while maintaining crop nitrogen assimilation
Alison Bressler, University of Michigan; Jennifer Blesh, University of Michigan
4:00 PM
Lessons learned: Recruiting stakeholder participants for water quality monitoring
Rebecca J. Fox, Washington College, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science; Thomas R. Fisher, Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science; Anne B. Gustafson, Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science; Kalla L. Kvalnes, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science; James W. Lewis, University of Maryland; Erika L. Koontz, Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
4:20 PM
Soil nutrient stocks are maintained over two harvest cycles in tropical industrial plantation forests
Devin E. McMahon, Stanford University; Leonardus Vergütz, Federal University of Viçosa; Samuel V. Valadares, Federal University of Viçosa; Ivo R. Silva, Federal University of Viçosa; Rob Jackson, Stanford University
4:40 PM
Does genetic variation in photorespiration rates matter in natural populations?
David Rosenthal, Ohio University; Nicholas J. Tomeo, Ohio University
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