COS 248 - Biogeochemistry: Linking Community Structure And Ecosystem Function 2

Presentations:

• 1:30 PM – 1:45 PM EDT

  Stoichiometry of birds and implications for ecosystem ecology
  

  Presenting Author: Ethan Duvall – Cornell University

  Coauthor: Alexander Flecker – Cornell University

  Coauthor: Louis A. Derry – Cornell University
• 1:45 PM – 2:00 PM EDT

  Using isotopic niche characteristics to investigate how ecological traits drive resource segregation in global seabird colonies: A test of niche theory.
  

  Presenting Author: Kyle Parkinson – Univerisity of Guelph

  Coauthor: Alexander Bond – The Natural History Museum, UK

  Coauthor: Leandro Bugoni – Universidade Federal do Rio Grande

  Coauthor: Yves Cherel – CNRS-La Rochelle Université

  Coauthor: Keith A. Hobson – Department of Biology, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

  Coauthor: Patricia Mancini – Universidade Federal do Rio Grande

  Coauthor: Gregory McClelland – Environment And Climate Change Canada

  Coauthor: Brian Hayden – University of New Brunswick
• 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM EDT

  Fungivorous nematodes drive microbial diversity and carbon cycling in soil
  

  Presenting Author: Jenni Kane, M.S. – West Virginia University

  Coauthor: Ember Morrissey, PhD – West Virginia University

  Coauthor: Zachary Freedman, PhD – University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Coauthor: James Kotcon, PhD – West Virginia University
• 2:15 PM – 2:30 PM EDT

  Wind-borne antibiotics affect soil community function leading to reduced microbial efficiency
  

  Presenting Author: Dan V. Du – University of Idaho

  Coauthor: michael Strickland – University of Idaho
• 2:30 PM – 2:45 PM EDT

  Role of understory restoration in influencing forest soil nutrient cycling
  

  Presenting Author: Carla M. D'Antonio – UC Santa Barbara

  Coauthor: Stephanie G. Yelenik – USDA-Forest Service

  Coauthor: Evan Rehm – Austin Peay State University

  Coauthor: Cheryl Elgersma – UC Santa Barbara
• 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM EDT

  Restoring ecosystem function: how understory species influence soil carbon and nitrogen cycling in a degraded and restored Hawaiian mesic forest
  

  Presenting Author: Kelsey L. Dowdy – UC Santa Barbara

  Coauthor: Stephanie G. Yelenik – USDA-Forest Service

  Coauthor: Carla M. D'Antonio – UC Santa Barbara