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WEDNESDAY
8 am-11:30 am
natural disturbance regimes in Sierra Nevada forests.
8:20 AM OOS 24-2 Alaback, P, University of Montana.
Restoration of northern temperate rainforest: An
application of principles from studies of old-growth
forests.
8:40 AM OOS 24-3 MacKinnon, A and SC Saunders, British
Columbia Forest Service, Coast Area. Spatial and
temporal dynamics of old-growth forests on the British
Columbia coast.
9:00 AM OOS 24-4 Beese, WJ, Vancouver Island University.
Application of variable retention for biodiversity
conservation in British Columbia.
9:20 AM OOS 24-5 Pearson, A, Ecologia. The influence of
logging history on second-growth forest structure and
ecosystem recovery on Lyell Island, Haida Gwaii.
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AM OOS 24-6 Palik, BJ1 and S Fraver2 , (1)USDA Forest
Service, Northern Research Station, (2)USDA Forest
Service. Validating an ecological forestry approach in
Great Lakes mixed-pine forests.
10:10 AM OOS 24-7 Keeton, WS1 , CE Kraft2 , DR Warren2 , JP
Stovall1 and MT Curzon3 , (1)University of Vermont, (2)
Cornell University, (3)University of Minnesota. A reevaluation
of biomass dynamics and riparian functions in
late-successional forests of the northeastern U.S..
10:30 AM OOS 24-8 Mitchell, RJ, The Joseph W. Jones Ecological
Research Center at Ichauway. Fire, wind, and water:
Disturbance and ecological forestry in pine grasslands of
the Southeastern Coastal Plains.
10:50 AM OOS 24-9 Chen, J, The University of Toledo. Coupling
humans and nature at regional scales.
11:10 AM OOS 24-10 Johnson, KN, Oregon State University. Wild
Science: The recent role of political ecology in shaping
federal forest management in the Pacific Northwest.
OOS 25 - Ecology in a Dusty World: Integrating Dust
Flux, Human Dimensions, and Ecological Processes in
Drylands
A107, Oregon Convention Center
Organized by: HL Throop, RL McCulley, SR Archer, PW Barnes
Moderator: PW Barnes
This session will explore the controls over dust transport in drylands
and the subsequent consequences for ecological processes and
humans.
8:00 AM OOS 25-1 Throop, HL1 , SR Archer2 , RL McCulley3 and PW Barnes4 , (1)New Mexico State University, (2)
University of Arizona, (3)University of Kentucky, (4)
Loyola University. Integrating transport processes into
ecological research: Moving beyond spatial stasis.
8:20 AM OOS 25-2 Ravi, S, Stanford University. Role of rapid
vegetation changes and disturbances on dust emissions.
8:40 AM OOS 25-3 Field, JP, OF Villar, JL Csavina, DD Breshears
and EA Betterton, The University of Arizona. Impacts of
vegetation dynamics on the redistribution of sediment,
nutrients, and contaminants by wind and water.
9:00 AM OOS 25-4 Barger, NN1 , HS Guenther1 , ME Miller2 and JE Herrick3 , (1)University of Colorado, (2)National
Park Service, (3)USDA Agricultural Research Service.
Consequences of fuel load management on erosional
processes in pinyon-juniper systems.
9:20 AM OOS 25-5 Sankey, JB1 , CSA Wallace2 , SM Munson3 and M Miller4 , (1)USGS, (2)U.S. Geological Survey, (3)
USGS - Southwest Biological Science Center, (4)National
Park Service. Effects of fire regime changes and post-fire
treatments on dust emission in sagebrush shrublands of
the Great Basin, USA.
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AM OOS 25-6 Eldridge, DJ 1 , SK Travers 2 and TB Koen 3 , (1)
University of New South Wales, (2)University of NSW, (3)
Office of Environment and Heritage. Soil disturbance by
native animals maintains key ecosystem processes in an
arid Australian woodland.
10:10 AM OOS 25-7 Hewins, DB 1 , EM Levi 2 , HL Throop 1 and SR
Archer 2 , (1)New Mexico State University, (2)University
of Arizona. Decomposition in a dusty world: Soil-litter
mixing enhances leaf litter decomposition and soil
aggregate formation.
10:30 AM OOS 25-8 McCulley, RL 1 , JA Nelson 1 , HL Throop 2 ,
SR Archer 3 , PW Barnes 4 , K Predick 3 and EM Levi 3 , (1)
University of Kentucky, (2)New Mexico State University,
(3)University of Arizona, (4)Loyola University. Lipid
profiles of decomposing plant litter: UV-B and soil
deposition interactions.
10:50 AM OOS 25-9 Conner, LG and RA Gill, Brigham Young
University. Cross-community comparison of ecosystem
effects of dust-caused early snowmelt.
11:10 AM OOS 25-10 Okin, GS, UCLA. The importance of desert
dust transported long distances: Ecosystem effects and
human health.
OOS 26 - Nutrient Additions Alter Community and
Ecosystem Processes: Lessons Learned From the
Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network
B110, Oregon Convention Center
Organized by: KJ La Pierre (kimberly.lapierre@yale.edu), SE Koerner
Moderator: KJ La Pierre
We aim to synthesize the broad body of knowledge gained from
nutrient addition experiments across the Long-Term Ecological
Research network in order to determine whether nutrient additions
have consistent impacts across a broad range of ecosystems,
including grasslands, forests, marine, and urban systems.
8:00 AM OOS 26-1 DeMarco, J1 , MC Mack2 , MS Bret-Harte3 and GR Shaver4 , (1)New Mexico State University, (2)
University of Florida, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks,
(4)Marine Biological Laboratory. Plant and ecosystem
response to long term experimental warming and nutrient
additions in arctic shrub tundra.
8:20 AM OOS 26-2 Gasarch, EI1 and T Seastedt2 , (1)University
of Colorado, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder. Alpine
plant community response to long-term moisture and
nitrogen accumulation along an elevational gradient,
Niwot Ridge, CO.
8:40 AM OOS 26-3 Bernzott, ED1 , MN Gooseff1 and DM
McKnight2 , (1)Pennsylvania State University, (2)
9:00 AM
University of Colorado. Nutrient cycling in glacial
meltwater streams of the McMurdo Dry Valleys Antarctica
is strongly dependent on stream-sediment interactions.
OOS 26-4 Kara, EL, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The effect of future nutrient scenarios on a eutrophic
lake: Insights from aquatic ecosystem simulations.
9:20 AM OOS 26-5 Dickson, TL and KL Gross, Michigan State
University. Long-term dynamics of plant species richness
in response to fertilization: What are the effects of
colonization, dominance, and species functional traits?.
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AM OOS 26-6 Koerner, SE1 , ML Avolio2 , KJ La Pierre2 , KR
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