COS 227 - Biogeochemistry: Linking Community Structure And Ecosystem Function 1

Presentations:

• 10:00 AM – 10:15 AM EDT

  Nematodes and the micro-food web respond to plant litter type and placement when added to organic soil
  

  Presenting Author: Krisztina Mosdossy – McGill University, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

  Coauthor: Cynthia M. Kallenbach, PhD – McGill University

  Coauthor: Joann Whalen – McGill University

  Coauthor: Benjamin Mimee – Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
• 10:15 AM – 10:30 AM EDT

  Directed plant-microbiome evolution to improve crop performance under drought
  

  Coauthor: Sanna Sevanto – Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory

  Presenting Author: Dea Musa – Los Alamos National Laboratory

  Coauthor: Kelsey R. Carter, PhD – Los Alamos National Laboratory

  Coauthor: Eric R. Moore, n/a – Los Alamos National Laboratory

  Coauthor: Abigael Nachtsheim – Los Alamos National Laboratory

  Coauthor: Anastasiia Kim – Los Alamos National Laboratory

  Coauthor: Joshua Mitchell – Los Alamos National Laboratory

  Coauthor: Jack Heneghan – Los Alamos National Laboratory

  Coauthor: L. Turin Dickman – Los Alamos National Laboratory

  Coauthor: Anthony Sabella – Los Alamos National Laboratory

  Coauthor: Estella Gomez – Los Alamos National Laboratory

  Coauthor: Eliana Rodriguez – Los Alamos National Laboratory

  Coauthor: Sangeeta Negi – Los Alamos National Laboratory

  Coauthor: George Perkins – Los Alamos National Laboratory

  Coauthor: Rose Harris – Los Alamos National Laboratory

  Coauthor: Oana Marina – Los Alamos National Laboratory

  Coauthor: Brent Newman – Los Alamos National Laboratory

  Coauthor: Jeffrey Heikoop – Los Alamos National Laboratory

  Coauthor: Christine Anderson-Cook – Los Alamos National Laboratory

  Coauthor: Nicholas Lubbers – Los Alamos National Laboratory

  Coauthor: Scott Twary – Los Alamos National Laboratory

  Coauthor: Chris M. Yeager – Los Alamos National Laboratory

  Coauthor: Louise Comas – Agricultural Research Service, USDA

  Coauthor: Dan Manter – USDA ARS

  Coauthor: Christina Steadman – Los Alamos National Laboratory

  Coauthor: Michaeline Albright – Los Alamos National Laboratory

  Coauthor: John Dunbar – Los Alamos National Laboratory
• 10:30 AM – 10:45 AM EDT

  Birch shrub expansion across the Low Arctic: Are leaf nutrient concentrations a reliable indicator of the relative importance of nitrogen and phosphorus as growth-limiting nutrients?
  

  Presenting Author: Paul Grogan – Queen's University
• 10:45 AM – 11:00 AM EDT

  Calculating nitrogen uptake rates in forests: which components can be omitted, simplified, or taken from trait databases and which must be measured in situ?
  

  Presenting Author: Ray Dybzinski – Loyola University Chicago

  Coauthor: Ella Segal – Rice University

  Coauthor: Luke McCormack – Center for Tree Science, The Morton Arboretum

  Coauthor: Meghan G. Midgley, PhD – Morton Arboretum
• 11:00 AM – 11:15 AM EDT

  Afforestation changes belowground C dynamics in montane grasslands of the Northern Drakensbergs, South Africa
  

  Presenting Author: Rachel M. Keen – Division of Biology / Kansas State University

  Co-Author: Jesse Nippert, PhD – Kansas State University Division of Biology

  Coauthor: Emily Wedel – Kansas State University

  Coauthor: Jan Graf – Association for Water and Rural Development

  Coauthor: Tony Swemmer – SAEON
• 11:15 AM – 11:30 AM EDT

  Thresholds and tipping points in ecosystem responses to global warming
  

  Presenting Author: Paul Kardol – Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

  Coauthor: Clydecia Spitzer – Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

  Coauthor: Maja Sundqvist – Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

  Coauthor: Sandra Jämtgård – Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

  Coauthor: David Wardle – Nanyang Technological University

  Coauthor: Aimee T. Classen, PhD – University of Michigan