Printed Program (PDF) - Ecological Society of America

WEDNESDAY
4:30 pm-6:30 pm
PS 56-163 Carr, DE1, TA Junek2 and MD Eubanks2, (1)University
of Virginia, (2)Texas A&M University. Multiple effects of
inbreeding in populations undergoing directional selection.
PS 56-164 Chamberlain, SA, KD Whitney and JA Rudgers, Rice
University. Effects of agriculture on evolution of native
species.
PS 57 - Statistical Ecology
Exhibit Hall DE, Oregon Convention Center
PS 57-165 Xiao, X and EP White, Utah State University. The adequate
currency for community-level energetic constraint based on
Maximum Entropy.
PS 57-166 Inouye, BD, Florida State University. Connecting theory and
data demands reevaluation of experimental design.
PS 57-167 Schoolmaster, DR Jr.1, JB Grace2 and EW Schweiger3,
(1)Five Rivers Services at US Geological Survey, (2)US
Geological Survey, (3)National Park Service. Wetland
bioassessment using Naïve Bayesian indicator species
analysis.
PS 57-168 Domke, GM1, CW Woodall1, JE Smith2 and RE
McRoberts1, (1)USDA Forest Service, Northern Research
Station, (2)US Forest Service, Northern Research Station.
Examining imputation techniques for time-series estimates
of forest carbon stocks in the United States.
PS 58 - Remote Sensing And Image Analysis
Exhibit Hall DE, Oregon Convention Center
PS 58-169 Butnor, JR1, JL Campbell2 and JB Shanley3, (1)U.S. Forest
Service, (2)USDA Forest Service, (3)USGS. Using ground
penetrating radar to characterize soil frost for ecological
applications.
PS 58-170 Huang, CY1, SR Archer2, MP McClaran2 and SE Marsh2,
(1)National Taiwan University, (2)University of Arizona.
Shrub encroachment into grasslands: end of an era?.
PS 58-171 Manley, PV1, JC Zinnert2, RD Massaro2, ER Crawford1,
SN Bissett1 and D Young1, (1)Virginia Commonwealth
University, (2)US Army Corps of Engineers. Lasers on
a plane! Using LiDAR to analyze spatial variations in
shrub thicket canopies and light attenuation in coastal
environments.
PS 58-172 McNally, A1, J Michaelsen2 and B Cappelaere3, (1)
University of California, Santa Barbara, (2)University of
California, (3)Laboratory HydroSciences Montpellier. Using
satellite derived vegetation indices to predict root zone soil
moisture in the African Sahel.
PS 59 - Microbial Ecology
Exhibit Hall DE, Oregon Convention Center
PS 59-173 Armitage, DW1, KL Gallagher2, ND Youngblut3, DH
Buckley4 and SH Zinder4, (1)University of California,
Berkeley, (2)University of Connecticut, (3)University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (4)Cornell University.
Patterns of phylogenetic and functional diversity in a salt
marsh microbial mat.
PS 59-174 Fazzino, L and HE Kirkpatrick, University of Puget Sound.
Scotch broom’s nitrogen-fixing symbiotic bacteria: Are
there roommates in nodules?.
PS 59-175 Hill, RS and RB Franklin, Virginia Commonwealth University.
Microbial diversity: A spatial study of microbial community
assemblages in the Floridian Aquifer.
PS 59-176 Eberhart, JL and JL Parke, Oregon State University. Forest
Phytophthoras, a new international journal and website.
PS 59-177 Carrell, A and AC Frank, University of California. Diversity of
endophytic bacterial communities in Pinus flexilis foliage.
PS 59-178 Brown, SP and A Jumpponen, Kansas State University.
Microbial primary successional dynamics: An assessment
of community convergence/divergence patterns.
PS 59-179 Wohl, DL1, W Curry2 and JR Miller2, (1)Elizabethtown
College, (2)Pennsylvania State University Milton S. Hershey
Medical Center. Disrupting primary succession during
childbirth: Is there a long-term consequence?.
PS 59-180 Palanivel, RU1, JA Langley2 and SK Chapman1, (1)Villanova
University, (2)Villanvoa University. Microbes mend oil spills?
Investigating how nitrogen impacts oil degradation.
PS 59-181 Ryan, CN, G Mayer and SB Cox, Texas Tech University.
The effects of heavy metals on the community structure of
symbiotic gut microbes in Fundulus heteroclitus.
PS 60 - Soil Ecology
Exhibit Hall DE, Oregon Convention Center
PS 60-182 Lawrence, S1, GL Vourlitis1, FDA Lobo2 and C Ortiz3, (1)
California State University, (2)Universidade Federal de
Mato Grosso, (3)Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso,
Brazil. Interactions between soil nutrient and organic matter
content, tree density, and grass cover in Brazilian Cerrado.
PS 60-183 Coleman, MD, DL Smith and S Shan, University of Idaho.
Black carbon decreases soil activity of biomass degrading
enzymes and increases protease activity.
PS 60-184 Moratto, SM1, RL Hale1, D Huber2 and NB Grimm3, (1)
Arizona State University, (2)Idaho State University, (3)
National Science Foundation. Is urbanization only skin
deep? Deep soil cores in an arid urban ecosystem.
PS 60-185 McNicol, G and WL Silver, University of California,
Berkeley. Separate effects of flooding and anoxia on soil
biogeochemistry and greenhouse gas emissions.
PS 60-186 de Graaff, MA1, S Gillette1, JD Jastrow2 and SD
Wullschleger3, (1)Boise State University, (2)Argonne
National Laboratory, (3)Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Differential priming of soil carbon driven by soil depth and
root impacts on carbon lability.
PS 60-187 Salley, SW, PH Martin, AK Knapp and EF Kelly, Colorado
State University. Soil landscape development in the shortgrass
steppe ecosystem- assessing the vulnerability of
soils to climate change.
PS 60-188 Rehman, AA1, J Taura1, JA Koch1, M Johnson1, KD
McConnaughay1, EA Paul2 and SJ Morris1, (1)Bradley
University, (2)Colorado State University. The effects of
calcium and nitrogen amendments on soil organic matter
dynamics in pine forest stands at Sand Ridge State Forest.
PS 60-189 Hartshorn, AS1, A Bondurant1, J Vallotton1, ZH Leggett2
and EB Sucre2, (1)James Madison University, (2)
Weyerhaeuser Company. Doubled organic matter levels
increase soil respiration from intensively managed loblolly
pine plantations.
PS 60-190 Anthony, MA1 and AR Contosta2, (1)Hampshire College,
(2)University of New Hampshire. Evidence for the influence
of different dairy practices on seasonal nitrous oxide (N2O)
fluxes and fungal and bacterial N2O contributions.
PS 60-191 Zhu, X1 and W Horwath2, (1)UCDavis, (2)University of
California, Davis. Nitrous oxide production via ammonium
oxidation at low oxygen availability in agricultural soils.
PS 60-192 Markewitz, D1, JC Ike1 and LR Boring2, (1)The University of
Georgia, (2)Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center.
Restoration and prescribed fire in longleaf pine ecosystems:
Impacts on black carbon storage in soils.
PS 60-193 Taylor, AE, LH Zeglin, TA Wanzek, DD Myrold and PJ
Bottomley, Oregon State University. Cropping phase and
seasonal effects on population dynamics and relative
contributions of ammonia oxidizing archaea and bacteria to
soil nitrification potential activities.
PS 60-194 Leggett, ZH and EB Sucre, Weyerhaeuser Company. The
impact of annual harvesting of switchgrass intercropped in
loblolly pine plantations on soil compaction and long-term
soil productivity.
PS 60-195 Ariza, MC, WE Rogers, FE Smeins and JR Hammons, Texas
A&M University. In situ seed germination and mycorrhizal
associations of the endangered terrestrial orchid Spiranthes
parksii .
PS 60-196 Ladd, MP, ZL Rinkes and MN Weintraub, University of
Toledo. Effects of elevated nitrogen on the interaction
between microbial activity and plant litter chemistry during
decomposition of Acer saccharum litter.
PS 60-197 Thoman, HM, ZL Rinkes and MN Weintraub, University of
Toledo. Respiration and biomass dynamics during the early
stage of Acer rubrum leaf litter decay.
PS 61 - Mycorrhizae
Exhibit Hall DE, Oregon Convention Center
PS 61-198 Cappellazzi, JE1, JE Smith2, PJ Bottomley3 and DD
Myrold1, (1)Oregon State University, (2)USDA Forest
132 ESA 97th Annual Meeting, August 5 - 10, 2012, Oregon Convention Center