Soil is important to ecology

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Soil Ecology TALKS
Mon AM – Mon PM – Tues AM – Tues PM – Weds AM – Weds PM – Thurs AM – Thurs PM – Fri
Soil Ecology POSTERS
Mon PM – Tues PM – Weds PM – Thurs PM

And don’t forget the Soil Ecology Section Mixer on Wednesday at 6:00 PM
Joint Biogeosciences, Soil Ecology, and Agroecology Mixer

Or the Soil Ecology Section Business Meeting on Thursday at 12:o0 PM
Soil Ecology Section Business Meeting

There will also be an Annual ESA Women in Soil Ecology (WISE) meet-up:
at The Limbo on Thursday (8/15) 6:30-8:00pm. All women ecologists welcome!

 

Monday AM Special Sessions

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10:15 AM – 11:30 AM

SS 8 Soil Biodiversity on the Global Stage: Identifying Priorities, Opportunities and Challenges

 

Monday PM Talks

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COS 1 Aquatic Ecology: Lakes And Ponds

4:00 PM

8 Soil health, agriculture and climate in New England: Scientific findings, farming practices and policies

Anne-Marie Codur¹, Jonathan Harris¹, Josephine Watson², Kayleigh Fay¹ and Bethany Tietjen¹, (1)Global Development & Environment Institute, Tufts University, Medford, MA, (2)Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, Medford, MA

 

COS 2 Biogeochemistry: New Paradigms In Biogeochem Cycling

1:30 PM

1 Crop diversity influences gross rates of amino acid production and nitrogen mineralization

Lauren C. Breza¹, Maria Mooshammer², Timothy M. Bowles², Virginia L. Jin³, Marty Schmer³ and A. Stuart Grandy¹, (1)Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, (2)Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, (3)Agroecosystem Management Research Unit, USDA-ARS, Lincoln, NE

 

1:50 PM

2 Identifying controls on nitrate sources and flowpaths in a northern hardwood forest using a hydropedological framework

Linda H. Pardo, USDA Forest Service, Burlington, VT, Mark B. Green, Northern Research Station, US Forest Service, Scott W. Bailey, Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, USFS, North Woodstock, NH, Kevin McGuire, Forest Resources & Environmental Conservation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA and William H. McDowell, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH

 

3:20 PM

6 Expanding nutrient use efficiency as a framework to reveal mechanisms that couple biogeochemical cycles

Steven W. Gougherty and Adrien C. Finzi, Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA

 

3:40 PM

7 Modeling microbe munchers: Trophic interactions and the temperature response of soil carbon stocks

Benjamin N. Sulman, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN and Jean P Gibert, Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC

 

4:00 PM

8 Nitrogen dynamics in decomposing roots in temperate coniferous forests

Hua Chen, Biology Department, University of Illinois at Springfield, Springfield, IL, Tiffany L. van Huysen, Land, Air and Water Resources, UC Davis, Davis, CA, Mark E. Harmon, Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, Steven Perakis, US Geological Survey, Corvallis, OR and William T. Hicks, Biology, Bethany College, Bethany, WV

 

COS 3 Climate Change

4:40 PM

10 Quantifying microbial and plant determinants of soil carbon flux responses to various climate changes

Qi Qi, The department of University, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; Plant, Oklahoma University, Norman, OK, Yunfeng Yang, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Jizhong Zhou, Institute for Environmental Genomics, Consolidated Core Laboratory, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, and School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK and Linwei Wu, Institute for Environmental Genomics and Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

 

COS 5 Communities: Traits And Functional Diversity I

1:50 PM

2 Linking community functional attributes with ecosystem carbon storage and soil resource availability in semi-arid grasslands

Huoxing Zhu Sr., South China Botanical Garden, CAS, Scarborough, ON, Canada

 

COS 7 Ecosystem Management

1:50 PM

2 Linking microbiome to biome for improved prediction of ecosystem functions

Kusum J. Naithani¹, Renee F. Sniegocki¹, Jessica B. Moon¹, Abigail Rutrough², Jaya S. S. Seelan³, Jude Gireneus⁴, David Weindorf⁵ and Michael Farmer⁶, (1)Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, (2)Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, (3)Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ITBC), Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, (4)Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ITBC), Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, (5)Plant and Soil Science, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, (6)Agriculture and Applied Economics & Natural Resource Management, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

 

2:10 PM

3 An 11-year assessment of hybrid chestnut growth, blight incidence (Cryphonectria parasitica), and tree recruitment under various soil restoration treatments

Jenise M. Bauman, Environmental Science, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, Brian C. McCarthy, College of Arts & Sciences, Ohio University, Athens, OH and Carolyn H. Keiffer, Department of Botany, Miami University, Middletown, OH

 

COS 9 Environmental Gradients

1:30 PM

1 Woodland-grassland transitions are strongly associated with soil hydrology but not fuel loads or fire in Serengeti savannas

Ricardo M. Holdo, Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA and T. Michael Anderson, Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC

 

3:20 PM

6 Spatial and temporal controls of water availability on the partitioning of above-belowground productivity

Laureano Gherardi, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, Osvaldo E. Sala, School of Life Sciences, School of Sustainability, and Global Drylands Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, Courtney M. Currier, School of Life Sciences and Global Drylands Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, André L.C. Franco, Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO and Diana H. Wall, Department of Biology & School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

 

3:40 PM

7 Effects of elevation and geographic location on diversity of soil bacteria, fungi, and invertebrates in montane ecosystems

Erin K. Cameron¹, Melissa A. Cregger², Greg Newman³, M. Noelia Barrios-Garcia⁴, Julie Deslippe⁵, Jin-Sheng He⁶, Mark Hovenden⁷, Toke T. Hoye⁸, Jennie R. McLaren⁹, Christian Rixen¹⁰, Mariano A. Rodriguez-Cabal¹¹, Maja Sundqvist¹², Sonja Wipf¹³, M. Thomas P. Gilbert¹⁴, Sarah Siu Tze Mak¹⁴, Martin Nielsen¹⁴, Lara Puetz¹⁴, Aimée T. Classen¹⁵ and Nathan J. Sanders¹⁶, (1)Environmental Science, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, NS, Canada, (2)Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, (3)Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, Burlington, (4)CONICET, Bariloche, Argentina, (5)Victoria University of Wellington, (6)Department of Ecology, Peking University, Beijing, China, (7)School of Plant Science, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, (8)Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Ronde, Denmark, (9)Biological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, (10)Community Ecology, Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, Switzerland, (11)Grupo de Ecología de Invasiones, INIBIOMA, CONICET, San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina, (12)Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Sciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, (13)WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos, Switzerland, (14)Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, (15)Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, (16)Gund Institute for Environment, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT

 

COS 11 Invasion: Ecosystem Processes

3:20 PM

6 Effects of Agrilus planipennis and Lonicera maackii on fungal driven decomposition in Midwestern forests

Adam Marcus Reed and Megan Rua, Biological Sciences, Wright State University, Dayton, OH

 

COS 12 Mutualism And Facilitation

1:50 PM

2 Mutualism and migration: Partnering with novel ericoid mycorrhizal fungi from beyond its range increases seed germination in endemic Rhododendron catawbienseTaryn L. Mueller, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, David A. Moeller, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN and Jesse Bellemare, Department of Biological Sciences, Smith College, Northampton, MA

 

4:00 PM

8 Does the application of organic acids inhibit growth of non-native Phragmites australis?Kurt P. Kowalski¹, James White², McKenzie Smith³, Michael Eggleston¹ and Kathryn Kingsley², (1)Great Lakes Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Ann Arbor, MI, (2)Plant Biology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, (3)U.S. Geological Survey (Contractor), Ann Arbor, MI

 

Monday PM Poster Presentations

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4:30 PM – 6:30 PM

 

PS 3 Communities: Assembly And Neutral Theory

17 Host phylogeny strongly structures Fagaceae-associated ectomycorrhizal fungal community at a regional scale

Binwei Wu and Liangdong Guo, State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

 

21 Rhizosphere bacterial communities explained by spatial structure and sampling grain

Jonathan Dickey, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, TN

 

PS 5 Communities: Spatial Patterns And Environmental Gradients

35 Effects on soil-fungal network structure from urbanization

Steve Kutos, Elle M. Barnes, Marissa Mesko and J.D. Lewis, Biological Sciences, Fordham University, Bronx, NY

 

48 Relating abiotic factors to microbial diversity across gradients of land use

Marissa Mesko, Elle M. Barnes and J.D. Lewis, Biological Sciences, Fordham University, Bronx, NY

 

52 Partitioning at what scale? Exploring species differences in mycorrhizal colonization across genus Lobelia

Christopher B. Blackwood, Jessica Nowjack, J Miller and Andrea L Case, Department of Biological Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, OH

 

54 Depth-related spatial distribution of microbial composition in marginal soils

Xiaoling Wan¹, Jialiang Kuang², Lauren Hale³, Liyou Wu³, Peter Nico⁴, Malay Saha⁵, Kelly Craven⁶, Jennifer Pett-Ridge⁷, Jizhong Zhou³ and Mary Firestone⁸, (1)Institute for Environmental Genomics, Institute for Environmental Genomics, Norman, OK, (2)Institute for Environmental Genomics, Consolidated Core Laboratory, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, and School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, (3)Institute for Environmental Genomics and Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, (4)Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, (5)Forage Improvement Division, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, OK, (6)Plant Biology Division, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, OK, (7)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, (8)Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

 

PS 8 Herbivory: Plant Defenses

74 Does a soil salinization gradient alter generalist insect herbivory on tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)?

Jocelyn M Marsack and Brian M. Connolly, Biology, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI

 

PS 9 Mutualism And Facilitation

81 Applying the plant-soil feedback framework to crop rotations

Tristan A. Barley, Institute for the Environment and Sustainability, Miami University, Oxford, OH, Veronica M. Briggs, Institute for the Environment and Sustainability and Department of Biology, Miami University, Oxford, OH and Jonathan T. Bauer, Miami University, Oxford, OH

 

Tuesday AM Talks

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8:00 AM

Impacts of fresh litter inputs on microbially mediated C fluxes across an arctic permafrost thaw gradient

Moira Hough, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, Malak M. Tfaily, Soil, Water, and Environmental Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, Steven Blazewicz, Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, Ellen Dorrepaal, Climate Impacts Research Centre (CIRC), Umeå University, Abisko, Sweden, Patrick M. Crill, Stockholm University, Virginia Rich, Microbiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH and Scott R. Saleska, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

 

8:40 AM

Fertilization effects on ecosystem service tradeoffs in agroforestry for food production

William Cyril Eddy III, Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and the Environment, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL and Wendy H. Yang, Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

 

8:40 AM

Negative nitrogen effect overrides the positive effects of phosphorous on legumes in grasslands worldwide

Pedro M. Tognetti¹, Suzanne Prober², Enrique J. Chaneton¹, Jennifer L. Firn³, Anita C. Risch⁴, Martin Schuetz⁵, Anna Simonsen⁶, Laura Yahdjian¹, Elizabeth T. Borer⁷, Eric M. Lind⁸, Eric W. Seabloom⁷ and Mahesh Sankaran⁹, (1)IFEVA-CONICET, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, (2)CSIRO, Australia, (3)Biogeosciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, (4)Research Unit Community Ecology, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland, (5)Community Ecology, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland, (6)Land and Water, CSIRO, ACT, Australia, (7)Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, (8)Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, (9)National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India

 

9:20 AM

Warming and elevated CO₂ stimulate CH₄ emission with different mechanisms in a temperate peatland

Fenghui Yuan¹, Dan M. Ricciuto², Xiaoying Shi², Fengming Yuan³, Paul J. Hanson², Peter E. Thornton² and Xiaofeng Xu⁴, (1)Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, (2)Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, (3)Environmental Sciences Division & Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, (4)Biology, San Diego State University, SAN DIEGO, CA

 

9:20 AM

The negative effects of nitrogen deposition on English peas (Pisum sativum)

Catherine Marie Thompson¹, Isaac Julio¹, Warren B. Sconiers² and Kim Van Scoy¹, (1)Biology, University of the Ozarks, Clarksville, AR, (2)Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

 

9:50 AM

Effects of nitrogen addition on soil microorganisms in forest ecosystems

Biao Zhu, Institute of Ecology, Peking University, Beijing, China

 

10:10 AM

Nitrogen fertilization increases carbon use efficiency of soil microbial communities across 10 long-term N fertilization studies

Joseph E. Carrara, Biology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, Ember M. Morrissey, Division of Plant and Soil Sciences, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, Zachary Freedman, School of Natural Resources & Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI and Edward R. Brzostek, Department of Biology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV

 

10:10 AM

Increasing atmospheric CO₂ levels may reduce extraction of nutrients from soil microbes in plant roots

James White¹, Rajan Verma², Kathryn Kingsley¹, Qiuwei (Celeste) Zhang¹, Nkolika Obi¹ and Kurt P. Kowalski³, (1)Plant Biology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, (2)Biotechnology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, (3)Great Lakes Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Ann Arbor, MI

 

10:30 AM

Nitrogen addition lowers root stocks and increases turnover in American grasslands

Christopher Walter¹, Sarah E. Hobbie², Elizabeth T. Borer³, Eric W. Seabloom³, Dana M. Blumenthal⁴, Philip A. Fay⁵, Johannes M. H. Knops⁶, Kimberly J. LaPierre⁷ and Andrew D. B. Leakey⁸, (1)Ecology, Evolution & Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, (2)Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, (3)Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, (4)USDA-ARS, Fort Collins, CO, (5)Grassland, Soil & Water Research Laboratory, USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Temple, TX, (6)Department of Health and Environmental Sciences, Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Suzhou, China, (7)Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, MD, (8)Department of Plant Biology and Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

 

10:50 AM

Implications of microbial evolutionary processes for soil carbon-climate feedbacks in the context of global warming

Elsa Abs¹, Regis Ferriere^2,3,4 and Scott R. Saleska⁴, (1)Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, (2)iGLOBES Research Center, UMI 3157 CNRS-ENS/PSL-University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, (3)Eco-Evolutionary Mathematics, Institut de Biologie de l’Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France, (4)Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

 

11:10 AM

Modeling physical, chemical, and biological responses to agricultural conservation in a changing climate: Insights from Lake Erie

Stuart A. Ludsin¹, Noel Aloysius², S. Conor Keitzer³, David A. Dippold¹, Michael E. Fraker¹, Jay F. Martin⁴, Scott P. Sowa⁵, Gust Annis⁵, Jeffrey G. Arnold⁶, August M. Froehlich⁷, Matt E. Herbert⁵, Mari-Vaughn V. Johnson⁸, M. Lee Norfleet⁸, Anthony M. Sasson⁷, Mike J. White⁶ and Haw Yen⁹, (1)Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, (2)Bioengineering and Natural Resources, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, (3)Environmental Science, Tusculum University, Greeneville, TN, (4)Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, (5)The Nature Conservancy, Lansing, MI, (6)Grassland, Soil, and Water Research Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Temple, TX, (7)The Nature Conservancy, Dublin, OH, (8)Resource Assessment Division, USDA-NRCS, Temple, TX, (9)Blackland Research and Extension Center, Texas A&M University, Temple, TX

 

 

Tuesday PM Talks

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1:30 PM

Wrangling carbon: Synthesizing multi-scale, multi-site observations across disparate data sets to advance models and understanding of soil carbon cycling

Stevan R. Earl¹, Derek N. Pierson², Will R. Wieder³ and Kate Lajtha², (1)Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, (2)Department of Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, (3)INSTAAR, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

 

1:30 PM

Root anatomy helps to reconcile observed root trait syndromes in tropical and temperate trees

Louise Authier, UMR EcoFoG, University of Montpelier, Korou, French Guiana, Christopher Baraloto, INRA, UMR EcoFOG, Kourou, FL, French Guiana, Heidy Schimann, INRA-UMR ECOFOG, Kourou, French Guiana and Oscar J. Valverde-Barrantes, International Center of Tropical Botany, Florida International University, Miami, FL

 

1:50 PM

Soil carbon stock dynamics in six land use types at a national tallgrass prairie

Nicholas T. Glass, Christopher J. Whelan, Erika Meraz, Eduardo A Dias de Oliveira and Miquel A. Gonzalez-Meler, Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL

 

1:50 PM

Tree seedling shade tolerance arises from interactions with soil microbes and low light

Katherine E. A. Wood, Sarah McCarthy-Neumann and Richard K. Kobe, Department of Forestry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

 

1:50 PM

Niche differentiation of nitrifying microbes in rice paddies under elevated CO₂

Kaihang Zhang and Lei Cheng, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China

 

1:50 PM

Biological nitrification inhibition in the rhizosphere of energy sorghum

Mark Burnham¹, D.K. Lee^1,2, Evan H. DeLucia^1,3,4 and Wendy H. Yang^1,3,4,5, (1)Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation, Urbana, IL, (2)Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (3)Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, (4)Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment, Urbana, IL, (5)Department of Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL

 

2:30 PM

New strategies for assessing microbial interactions in the rhizosphere

Peter Andeer¹, Joelle Schlapfer¹, Kateryna Zhalnina¹, John Vogel², Karsten Zengler³, Kirsten S. Hofmockel⁴ and Trent Northen¹, (1)Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, (3)University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, (4)EMSL, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA

 

2:30 PM

Evaluating the success of ecosystem restoration via changes to plant community composition and soil-N cycling in urban forests invaded by Rosa multiflora

Eric R. Moore¹, Tara L.E. Trammell¹ and Vincent D’Amico III², (1)Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, (2)Northern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Newark, DE

 

2:50 PM

Fine-root exudation correlated with respiration among co-existing woody species in a deciduous-evergreen mixed forest

Lijuan Sun¹, Mioko Ataka², Mengguang Han¹, Yunfeng Han¹, Dayong Gan¹ and Biao Zhu¹, (1)Institute of Ecology, Peking University, Beijing, China, (2)Graduate school of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

 

3:20 PM

Soil texture and rainfall jointly influence tree and grass functional rooting depths in an African savanna

Madelon F. Case, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, Jesse B. Nippert, Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, Ricardo M. Holdo, Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA and A. Carla Staver, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT

 

3:20 PM

Response of American toads and forest floor invertebrates to experimentally elevated soil pH in acidic hardwood forests of Northeast Ohio

David A. Dimitrie¹, Michael F. Benard¹ and David J. Burke², (1)Department of Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, (2)The Holden Arboretum, Kirtland, OH

 

3:30 PM

Temperature mediates spatial scaling of farmland soil microbes

Yuting Liang, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China

 

3:40 PM

Effects of climate change across seasons on carbon fluxes via stem and soil respiration in a northern hardwood forest

Andrew B. Reinmann, Department of Geography, Hunter College, New York, NY; Environmental Sciences Initiative, Advanced Science Reserch Center, Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY and Pamela H. Templer, Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA

 

3:40 PM

Towards sustainability in an intensive monoculture: Soil management decision tradeoffs for California almond growers

Amber C. Kerr and Sonja B. Brodt, UC Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program, Agricultural Sustainability Institute, University of California Davis, Davis, CA

 

4:00 PM

Soil drainage history selects for distinct denitrifier communities that mediate nitrous oxide emissions

Alexander H. Krichels, Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, Natcha Suriyavirun, Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, Angela Kent, Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, Robert A. Sanford, Department of Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, Joanne C. Chee Sanford, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture and Wendy H. Yang, Program in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

 

4:20 PM

Allometry and traits plasticity of absorptive roots and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in response to fertilization ina subtropicalforest

Zeqing Ma, Huimin Wang and Liang Li, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

 

4:20 PM

Coordinated community structure among five taxonomic groups in Amazonian rainforests

Jason Vleminckx¹, Heidy Schimann², Thibaud Decaëns³, Mélanie Fichaux⁴, Vincent Vedel⁵, Gaelle Jaouen⁶, Mélanie H. Roy⁷, Emmanuel Lapied⁸, Julien Engel⁹, Pascal Petronelli¹⁰, Jerome Orivel¹ and Christopher Baraloto¹¹, (1)UMR EcoFoG, CNRS, French Guiana, (2)INRA-UMR ECOFOG, Kourou, French Guiana, (3)Laboratoire ECODIV, Université de Rouen, Mont-Saint-Aignan, France, (4)CNRS, UMR Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane, Kourou, French Guiana, (5)INRA, UMR Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane, Kourou, French Guiana, (6)UMR EcoFoG, AgroParisTech, French Guiana, (7)équipe Interactions Biotiques, CEFE CNRS, Montpellier, France, (8)Taxonomia International Foundation, Paris, France, (9)AMAP, IRD, CIRAD, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, INRA, Kourou, France, (10)CIRAD, UMR Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane, Kourou, France, (11)INRA, UMR EcoFOG, Kourou, FL, French Guiana

 

4:20 PM

Herbivory and soil resources impact the maintenance of landscape gap patterning and the spatial arrangement of grasses during pattern collapse

Andrew J. Sieben¹, Nichole N. Barger², Michael D. Cramer³, Walter R. Tschinkel⁴, Thorsten Wiegand⁵ and Lauren G. Shoemaker¹, (1)Department of Botany, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, (2)Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, (3)Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, (4)Biological Sciences, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, (5)Ecological Modelling, Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

 

Tuesday PM Poster Presentations

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4:30 PM – 6:30 PM

 

4:30 PM

Effects of hydrochar, digestate and nitrogen fertilizer on soil greenhouse gas fluxes in Miscanthus x giganteus grown as an advanced biofuel feedstock

Toby A Adjuik¹, Abbey Rodjom¹, Toufiq M. Reza² and Sarah C. Davis¹, (1)Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs: Environmental Studies Program, Ohio University, Athens, OH, (2)Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ohio University, Athens, OH

 

4:30 PM

Mycorrhizal fungi in urban prairie restoration in Texas

Tabitha N. Danylchukmantia¹, Dustin G. Schmitt¹ and Bishnu R. Twanabasu², (1)life science, weatherford college, weatherford, TX, (2)Biological Sciences, Weatherford College, Weatherford, TX

 

4:30 PM

Accounting for soil bulk density differences in comparative or repeated measurement soil organic carbon stock studies

Adam C. von Haden^1,2, Wendy H. Yang^1,2,3,4 and Evan H. DeLucia^1,2,4, (1)Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment, Urbana, IL, (2)Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation, Urbana, IL, (3)Department of Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, (4)Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

 

4:30 PM

Analyzing the effects of Tamarix spp. on plant variance and soil conditions in riparian ecosystems of the El Paso region

Jessica V. Salcido Padilla, Biological Science, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, Michael L. Moody, Biological Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX and Elizabeth Stunz, Biological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX

 

4:30 PM

Evaluating the simulated mean soil carbon transit times by earth system models using observations

Jing Wang¹, Jianyang Xia², Xuhui Zhou², Kun Huang³, Jian Zhou⁴, Yuanyuan Huang⁵, Lifen Jiang⁶, Xia Xu⁷, Junyi Liang⁸, Ying-Ping Wang⁹, Xiaoli Cheng¹⁰ and Yiqi Luo⁶, (1)School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, China, (2)School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, (3)East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, (4)East China Normal University, (5)Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, Gif‐sur‐Yvette, France., (6)Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, (7)Nanjing Forestry University, (8)Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, (9)CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Victoria 3195, Australia, (10)Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology, Wuhan Botanical Garden,CAS, Wuhan 430074,China

 

4:30 PM

Sustainable Agriculture Practices Improve Soil Health Metrics in Small Urban Farms

Sean Berthrong¹, Becca Lewis² and Spencer Lybrook², (1)Dept. of Biological Sciences, Butler University, Indianapolis, IN, (2)Butler University, Indianapolis, IN

 

4:30 PM

Plant-soil feedbacks confounded by warming in eastern old field plants

Leland D. Bennion¹, Sara E. Kuebbing¹ and Katharine Stuble², (1)Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, (2)Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

 

4:30 PM

Measuring soil health benefits on private rangelands through Wyoming ranchers’ profitability from improved forage production

Kristie A. Maczko¹, Holly Dyer², John Ritten², John A. Tanaka³ and Jennifer Moore Kucera⁴, (1)University of Wyoming, Sustainable Rangelands Roundtable, Fort Collins, CO, (2)Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, (3)Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, (4)American Farmland Trust, Washington, DC

 

4:30 PM

A survey of green roofs in the Midwest: Which roof characteristics impact soil properties and plant species diversity?

Anna G. Droz¹, Reid Coffman² and Christopher B. Blackwood¹, (1)Department of Biological Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, OH, (2)Architecture & Environmental Design, Kent State University, Kent, OH

 

4:30 PM

Dynamic response of vegetation activity to soil moisture in China on monthly timescales

Xiran Li, Department of Physical Geography, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China and Anping Chen, Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

 

4:30 PM

Assessing the impacts of green roof soil, plants, and mycorrhizae on the quantity and quality of runoff

Taylor Fulton¹, Anna G. Droz¹, Reid Coffman² and Christopher B. Blackwood¹, (1)Department of Biological Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, OH, (2)Division of Landscape Architecture, University of Oklahoma College of Architecture, Norman, OK

 

4:30 PM

Spatial pattern of soil carbon storage in different tidal level zones and among different vegetation communities

Wanyu Wen and Minghao Gong, Institute of Wetland Research, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China

 

4:40 PM

Exploring the competition between microbes and soil for carbon substrate: Emerging evidence from glucose tracing experiments

Kevin M. Geyer¹, Joerg Schnecker², A. Stuart Grandy¹, Andreas Richter² and Serita D. Frey¹, (1)Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, (2)Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

 

 

Wednesday AM Talks

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8:00 AM

Exposure antibiotics alters microbial communities and terrestrial elemental cycling

Carl Wepking, School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, Brian Badgley, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, John E. Barrett, Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, Katharine F. Knowlton, Dairy Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, Kevan J. Minick, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, NC State University, Raleigh, NC, Partha P. Ray, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, Sarah Shawver, Crop Soil and Environmental Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA and Michael S Strickland, Soil and Water Systems, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID

 

8:00 AM

Temperature sensitivity of forest soil N cycling across latitudinal and elevational gradients

Justin Gay, Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State, Bozeman, MT and Jack Brookshire, Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT

 

8:20 AM

Co-limitation by nitrogen and phosphorus in metal(loid)-contaminated soil following 100 years of smelter aerosol inputs in southwest Montana

Scott B. Robinson¹, Benjamin P. Colman¹ and Robert W. Pal², (1)Department of Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, (2)Biological Sciences, Montana Tech of the University of Montana, Butte, MT

 

8:40 AM

Root herbivory controls the effects of precipitation on above-belowground grass biomass partitioning: a greenhouse study

André L.C. Franco¹, Cecilia M. de Tomasel¹, Walter S. Andriuzzi¹, Katharine E. Ankrom¹, Elizabeth M. Bach², Laureano A. Gherardi³, Osvaldo E. Sala⁴ and Diana H. Wall⁵, (1)Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, (2)Nachusa Grasslands, Nature Conservancy, Franklin Grove, IL, (3)School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, (4)School of Life Sciences, School of Sustainability, and Global Drylands Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, (5)Department of Biology & School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

 

8:40 AM

Competition inside and out: Examining the relationship between microbiomes and free-living microbes

Jane M. Lucas, Department of Soil & Water Systems, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, Michael Kaspari, Department of Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK and Michael S Strickland, Soil and Water Systems, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID

 

9:00 AM

Deep nitrogen acquisition in warming permafrost soils: Contributions of belowground plant traits and fungal symbioses in the permafrost carbon-climate feedback

Rebecca E. Hewitt¹, Hélène Genet², D. Lee Taylor³, David McGuire², Heaher Greaves², Ruth Rutter² and Michelle C. Mack¹, (1)Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, (2)Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, (3)Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

 

9:00 AM

Accumulation of soil carbon under combined elevated CO₂, warming and drought: Results from a field scale experiment

Claus Beier¹, Christiana A. Dietzen^1,2, Per L. Ambus¹, Inger K. Schmidt¹, Sabine Reinsch³, Marie F. Arndal¹ and Klaus Steenberg Larsen¹, (1)Dept. of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark, (2)School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington, , Box 352100,, Seattle, WA, (3)Environment Centre Wales, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Bangor, United Kingdom

 

9:00 AM

The phytochemical landscape of sodium across a natural heterogeneous soilscape

Luis Santiago-Rosario, Biological Sciences, Louisiana State Univeristy, Baton Rouge, LA and Kyle E. Harms, Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

 

9:20 AM

Recovery in soil carbon stock but reduction in carbon stabilization after 56-year forest restoration in degraded tropical lands

Huiling Zhang¹, Qi Deng², Dafeng Hui² and Deqiang Zhang³, (1)Ecology, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, guangzhou, China, (2)Department of Biological Sciences, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN, (3)South China Botanical Garden, China

 

9:20 AM

Biotic homogenization of wetland nematode communities by exotic Spartina alterniflora in China

Youzheng Zhang¹, Steven C. Pennings², Bo Li¹ and Jihua Wu¹, (1)Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering, Coastal Ecosystems Research Station of Yangtze River Estuary, Institute of Biodiversity Science, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, (2)Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, TX

 

9:50 AM

Soil microbial and hydrological effects on germination of an Everglades tree island species

Brianna K. Almeida and Michelle E. Afkhami, Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL

 

10:10 AM

Does bacterial nitrification always positively respond to N fertilization?

Di Liang^1,2,3 and G Philip Robertson^1,2,3, (1)Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, MI, (2)Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, (3)Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, MI

 

10:30 AM

Self-organized redox patterning in soils controlled by hydrology

Xiaoli Dong, Environmental Science and Policy, UC Davis, Davis, CA and Daniel deB Richter, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC

 

10:30 AM

Friends and enemies: Competition mediated by bacterial interactions with entomopathogenic nematodes

Heidi Goodrich-Blair¹, Kristen E. Murfin², Daren R. Ginete^2,3 and Farrah Bashey⁴, (1)Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, (2)Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, (3)Microbiology, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, (4)Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Bloomington

 

10:50 AM

Fate of newly added organic carbon substrates in soils along a Hawaiian mineralogical soil gradient

Avishesh Neupane, Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, Peter M. Vitousek, Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, William C. Hockaday, Geology, Baylor University, Waco, TX and Daniela F. Cusack, Geography, University of California – Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

 

11:10 AM

Climate, soil properties and plant traits contributed to the spatial variability of net ecosystem exchange differently between forests and grasslands

Huimin Zhou, Xuhui Zhou and Junjiong Shao, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

 

Wednesday PM Talks

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1:30 PM

Plant-soil feedbacks and invasions: Which microbes matter?

Wesley Bickford, Great Lakes Science Center, USGS, Ann Arbor, MI; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

 

1:50 PM

Landsliding and rhizobiota of tree-ferns link the short- and long-term carbon cycles through silicate rock weathering

Yakshi N. Ortiz-Maldonado, Biology, University of Puerto Rico- Rio Piedras campus, San Juan, PR, Filipa Godoy-Vitorino, Microbiology & Medical Zoology, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR and Carla Restrepo, Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras, San Juan, PR

 

1:50 PM

Maintaining a higher level of ecosystem multifunctionality requires soil biodiversity in a temperate old growth forest

Zuoqiang Yuan, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China

 

1:50 PM

Soil management for a sustainable future: simulating crop water productivity, soil water dynamics, and evapotranspiration in the conservation tillage system

Yawen Huang¹, Wei Ren¹, Bo Tao¹, Yanjun Yang¹ and Xiaochen Zhu^1,2, (1)Department of Plant & Soil Sciences, College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, (2)School of Geography and Remote Sensing, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China

 

2:10 PM

Impact of soil biota on plant invasions

Kurt O. Reinhart, USDA-ARS, Miles City, MT

 

2:30 PM

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: Passengers or drivers of plant invasions?

Ylva Lekberg, Department of Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences, University of Montana and MPG Ranch, Missoula, MT, Lorinda Bullington, Molecular Ecology and Bioinformatics, MPG Ranch, Missoula, MT, Rebecca A. Bunn, Department of Environmental Sciences, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, Kelly A. LaFlamme, MPG Ranch, Missoula, MT, Lindsay Manzo, Sentinel High school, Missoula, MT and John L. Maron, Division of Biological Sciences, The University of Montana, Missoula, MT

 

2:50 PM

Smooth brome invasion effects soil structure and ecosystem services

Jennifer Bell¹, Eric G. Lamb² and Steven D. Siciliano¹, (1)Department of Soil Science, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (2)Department of Plant Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

 

2:50 PM

Competition and soil legacies alter the role of soil microbes in invaded plant communities

Catherine Fahey¹, Akihiro Koyama¹, Kari E. Dunfield², Pedro M. Antunes¹ and S. Luke Flory³, (1)Biology, Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Canada, (2)School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (3)Agronomy Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

 

3:20 PM

Phosphorus buildup and loss from garden soils constrains the ability of urban agriculture to recycle nutrients

Gaston Small, Biology, University of Saint Thomas, Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, Megan Hay, University of Saint Thomas, Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, Paliza Shrestha, Biology, University of Saint Thomas, Saint Paul, MN and Adam Kay, Biology, University of St. Thomas, Saint Paul, MN

 

3:40 PM

Trophic interactions in plant-soil feedbacks: Implications for invasion

Matthew L. Reid, Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI and Sarah M. Emery, Biology Dept., University of Louisville, Louisville, KY

 

3:40 PM

Land-use intensification can exaggerate the reduction of ecosystem multifunctionality with increasing soil biodiversity loss in a Tibetan alpine meadow

Zhengkun Hu^1,2, Hui Guo¹, Guozhen Du³, Lin Jiang² and Manqiang Liu⁴, (1)College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China, (2)School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, (3)State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agroecosystems, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China, (4)Soil Ecology Lab, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

 

3:40 PM

Capturing phosphorus in soil health assessments: Assessing the potential of carbon fractions and enzyme assays as indicators of organic phosphorus provision

Russell C. Hedberg II, Geography-Earth Science, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA and Charles White, Plant Science, Penn State, University Park, PA

 

3:40 PM

 Burrowing detritivores and litter decomposition dynamics in a desert ecosystem

Nevo Sagi, Moshe Zaguri and Dror Hawlena, Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

 

4:00 PM

Plant invasion alters the Michaelis-Menten kinetics of microbial exo-enzymes and soil organic matter chemistry along soil depth

Kyungjin Min, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, Jameson Bodenheimer, Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC and Vidya Suseela, Dept. Plant & Environmental Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC

 

4:20 PM

Volatile organic compounds from decomposing leaf litter fuel microbial metabolism and alter community composition

Steven G. McBride II¹, Ernest D. Osburn¹, Noah Fierer² and Michael S Strickland³, (1)Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, Blacksburg, VA, (2)Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, (3)Soil and Water Systems, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID

 

4:20 PM

Enemies of my enemies: Soil microbial communities that suppress germination of noxious weeds

Anthony C. Yannarell and Yi Lou, Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

 

 

Wednesday PM Poster Presentations

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4:30 PM – 6:30 PM

 

4:30 PM

Soil pH plays an important role driving ecosystem multifunctionality in a semiarid grassland on the Loess Plateau

Hui Guo¹, Yanan Wei¹ and Shuijin Hu^1,2, (1)College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China, (2)Department of Plant of Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

 

4:30 PM

Dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium occurs at soil moistures low enough to inhibit denitrification

Sada Egenriether¹, Angela D. Kent^1,2 and Wendy H. Yang^3,4,5, (1)Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, (2)Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, (3)Program in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, (4)Department of Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, (5)Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

 

4:30 PM

Soil as a delivery mechanism for allelochemicals among native and invasive shrubs

Taylor Wise and Kurt E. Schulz, Department of Biological Sciences, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL

 

4:30 PM

Water-dominated negative effect of nitrogen addition on soil respiration in a temperate steppe

Kunyu Li¹, Wenming Bai² and Guoyong Li¹, (1)School of Life Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng, China, (2)State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

 

4:30 PM

Spatial changes in soil C and N in a coastal wetland after 30 years of seawall reclamation

Xiaoli Bi, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Yantai, China and Leonel Sternberg, Department of Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL

 

4:30 PM

Identifying Microorganisms Responsible for Dissimilatory Nitrate Reduction to Ammonium (DNRA) in Soil Ecosystems

Joanne C. Chee-Sanford, USDA-ARS, Urbana, Jordan Cannon, Dept. of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, Robert A. Sanford, Department of Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL and Wendy H. Yang, Departments of Plant Biology and Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

 

4:30 PM

Ecological resilience in semi-arid savanna ecosystems: an experimental assessment of fire, drought, and soil fertility interactions

William E. Rogers¹, Heather J. Hannusch¹, Alexandra G. Lodge¹, Douglas R. Tolleson² and Heath D. Starns², (1)Ecosystem Science and Management, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, (2)Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Sonora, TX

 

4:30 PM

Sea level rise: Effects on soil dissolved organic matter flux in north Florida soils

Kierra N Christie, Enviornmental Technology and Management in the Forestry and Environmental Resources Department, Student at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC and Tracey B Schafer, Graduate Student at University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

 

4:30 PM

 Microbial mechanisms mediating soil carbon dynamics with N and P addition in an alpine meadow on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Xia Yuan¹, Hao Xu¹, Wenkuan Qin¹, Huakun Zhou² and Biao Zhu¹, (1)Institute of Ecology, Peking University, Beijing, China, (2)Northwest Plateau Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China

 

4:30 PM

Inferring soil organic matter stabilization in tropical forests in lowland Panama

Joseph B. Yavitt¹, Molly E. Huber¹, S. Joseph Wright² and Benjamin L. Turner³, (1)Natural Resources, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, (2)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, (3)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama

 

4:30 PM

Bison grazing increases N availability, but fire cessation increases both C availability and denitrification potential, in tallgrass prairie soils

Jaide H. Allenbrand, Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS and Lydia H. Zeglin, Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS

 

4:30 PM

Soil nitrogen cycling is determined by mycorrhizal fungi rather than soil physicochemical properties due to the nitrogen competition between mycorrhiza and free-living microbes

Chikae Tatsumi¹, Takeshi Taniguchi², Sheng Du³, Norikazu Yamanaka² and Ryunosuke Tateno⁴, (1)Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, (2)Arid Land Research Center, Tottori University, Tottori, Japan, (3)Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Science, Shaanxi, China, (4)Field Science Education and Research Center, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

 

4:30 PM

Burning restores grassland plant diversity and soil nutrients after fertilization

Carmen Ebel, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, MN, Cristina Portales Reyes, Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, St. Paul, MN, Christopher M. Clark, National Center for Environmental Assessment, US Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC and Forest Isbell, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN

 

4:30 PM

Examining the effect of soil cues on aboveground and belowground diversity in grassland communities

Kelly E. DeMolles and Tara K. Rajaniemi, Biology, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, N. Dartmouth, MA

 

4:30 PM

Effects of chronic nitrogen addition on soil nutrient cycling and ectomycorrhizal fungi at the Harvard Forest

Emma Conrad-Rooney¹, Maggie Anderson², Talia Michaud³, Jerry M. Melillo⁴ and John E. Hobbie⁴, (1)Biological Sciences, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, (2)Biology, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, (3)Environmental Studies, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, (4)The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA

 

4:30 PM

Differential recovery of N-cycling soil microbial functional groups following cessation of chronic fertilization

Matthew Nieland¹, Priscilla Moley², Janaye Hanschu^1,3 and Lydia H. Zeglin¹, (1)Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, (2)Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, (3)Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

 

4:30 PM

Arboreal ant nest effects on soil structure and nutrient availability in a shaded coffee agro-ecosystem

Nicholas L Medina¹, Lauren Schmitt², Ivette Perfecto² and John H. Vandermeer¹, (1)Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, (2)School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

 

4:30 PM

Critical transition of soil bacterial diversity and composition triggered by nitrogen enrichment

Weixing Liu¹, Sen Yang¹, Lin Jiang², Zhou Wang³ and Lingli Liu¹, (1)State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, (3)Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

 

4:30 PM

Long-term experimental N deposition increases soil C and N content and root N storage

Xuehua Xu, College of Forestry, Agricultural University of Hebei, Hebei, China, Andrew J. Burton, Ecosystem Science Center, Michigan Technological University and Jennifer R. Eikenberry, School of Forest Resources & Environmental Science, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI

 

4:30 PM

Separating the effects of mycorrhizal fungi and leaf litter chemistry on litter decomposition rates in a tropical montane forest

Georgia Seyfried, Plant Biology, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL

 

4:30 PM

Effects of reductions in experimental N depositon on mycorrhizal and decomposer abundance in a northern hardwood forest

Kath Schneider¹, Andrew J. Burton² and Jennifer R. Eikenberry¹, (1)School of Forest Resources & Environmental Science, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, (2)Ecosystem Science Center, Michigan Technological University

 

4:40 PM

Management of plant-soil feedbacks during restoration

Lora Perkins, Natural Resource Management, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD

 

4:40 PM

Nematode successional patterns in soils impacted by human decomposition

Lois S. Taylor¹, Allison R. Mason^1,2, Ernest C. Bernard³ and Jennifer M. DeBruyn¹, (1)Department of Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, (2)Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, (3)Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

 

 

6:00 PM

Joint Biogeosciences, Soil Ecology, and Agroecology Mixer

 

 

Thursday AM Talks

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8:00 AM – 11:30 AM

OOS 24 The Role of Soil Microorganisms for Improving the Efficacy of Ecological Restoration

 

8:00 AM

Soil carbon chemical stability and management in typical subtropical planted forests in southern China

Hui Wang¹, Shirong Liu¹, Jingxin Wang², Zuomin Shi¹, Daoxiong Cai³, Lihua Lu³ and Angang Ming³, (1)Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China, (2)School of Natural Resources, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, (3)Experimental Center of Tropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Pingxiang, China

 

8:20 AM

Soil microbial community composition and function both respond to watershed fire and grazing management, but through mechanisms acting at different scales

Lydia H. Zeglin¹, Jaide H. Allenbrand¹, R. Kent Connell¹, Priscilla Moley¹, Priscila Guzman¹, E. Korba Akley², Christine M. Carson¹, Tiffany Carter² and Noortje Notenbaert², (1)Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, (2)Agronomy, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS

 

8:20 AM

Soil microbes have the potential to mediate the escalation of plant herbivore resistance over succession

Mia M Howard, Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Jenny Kao-Kniffin, Department of Horticulture, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY and Andre Kessler, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

 

8:20 AM

Role of soil microbes in physically sequestered carbon during grassland restoration

Drew A. Scott, Plant Biology, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, IL, Elizabeth M. Bach, Nachusa Grasslands, Nature Conservancy, Franklin Grove, IL, Chris Du Preez, Department of Soil, Crop and Climate Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, Johan Six, Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland and Sara G. Baer, Plant Biology and Center for Ecology, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, IL

 

8:40 AM

Ecological effects of deep-rooted perennial grass systems on soil carbon sequestration in marginal lands

Jialiang Kuang¹, Colin Bates², Liyou Wu³, Peter Nico⁴, Malay Saha⁵, Kelly Craven⁶, Jennifer Pett-Ridge⁷, Jizhong Zhou³ and Mary K. Firestone⁸, (1)Institute for Environmental Genomics, Consolidated Core Laboratory, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, and School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, (2)Institute of Environmental Genomics, University of Oklahoma, (3)Institute for Environmental Genomics and Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, (4)Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, (5)Forage Improvement Division, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, OK, (6)Plant Biology Division, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, OK, (7)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, (8)Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

 

9:00 AM

Impacts of endophytic bacteria in switchgrass on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, plant nutrient acquisition and soil C and N dynamics

Bolin Dong, NC State University, Shuijin Hu, Department of Plant of Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, Jixiang Lin, Northeast Forestry University, China and Chuansheng Mei, Institute for sustainable and Renewable Resources, Institute of Advanced Learning and Research, Danville, VA

 

9:00 AM

Microbial responses to oak ecosystem restoration treatments are mediated by soil texture

Meghan G. Midgley¹, Mimi Payne¹, Lars A. Brudvig² and Noel B. Pavlovic³, (1)Center for Tree Science, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL, (2)Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, (3)U.S. Geological Survey, Chesterton, IN

 

9:00 AM

Repeated fires in Mediterranean ecosystems: Patterns of soil-vegetation recovery

Lea Wittenberg¹ and Dan Malkinson^1,2, (1)Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel, (2)Shamir Research Institute, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

 

9:00 AM

Microbial community structure and function in soils at Wild Basin Wilderness Preserve in Austin, TX

Justin Stewart, Geography and the Enviroment, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, Amy Ontai, Biology Department, Yale University and Teresa Bilinski, St. Edward’s University

 

9:00 AM

Quantifying the fine-scale effect of coarse woody debris on soil microbial activity in a second-growth northern hardwood forest

Lili Perreault¹, Jodi A. Forrester¹, Nina Wurzburger², David J. Mladenoff³ and Stith T. Gower⁴, (1)Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, (2)Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, (3)Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, (4)Department of Forest & Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI

 

9:20 AM

Microbial inoculation influences arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi community structure and nutrient dynamics during temperate tree restoration of a former golf course

Andrew Lance¹, David J. Burke¹, Constance E. Hausman² and Jean H. Burns³, (1)Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, (2)Division of Natural Resources, Cleveland Metroparks, Fairview Park, OH, (3)Department of Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

 

9:20 AM

Species-specific patterns in leaf litter decomposition across a forest mycorrhizal gradient

Ashley K. Lang¹, Fiona Jevon¹, Corinne Vietorisz¹, Matthew P. Ayres¹ and Jaclyn Hatala Matthes², (1)Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, (2)Dept. Biological Sciences, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA

 

9:20 AM

The measurement and quantification of generalized gradients of soil fertility relevant to plant community ecology

Laurent Daou, biology, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada and Bill Shipley, Biology Department, University of Sherbrooke, Canada

 

9:40 AM

Distributions of mycorrhizal fungal associations and implications for ecosystem processes

Insu Jo¹, Songlin Fei¹, Richard P. Phillips², Grant M. Domke³ and Christopher M. Oswalt⁴, (1)Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, (2)Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, (3)Northern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, St. Paul, MN, (4)Forest Inventory & Analysis, USDA Forest Service – Southern Research Station, Knoxville, TN

 

9:50 AM

Connecting nitrogen transformations mediated by the rhizosphere microbiome to perennial cropping system productivity in marginal lands

Lisa K. Tiemann¹, Darian Smercina¹, James R. Cole², Sarah E. Evans³ and Maren L. Friesen⁴, (1)Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, (2)Center for Microbial Ecology and Department of Plant, Soil, and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, (3)W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, Department of Integrative Biology, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, MI, (4)Crop and Soil Sciences/Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA

 

9:50 AM

Getting to the root of the (soil organic) matter: Fungi and SOM respond more strongly to root than leaf litter manipulations in a temperature forest DIRT experiment

Emily D. Whalen¹, Natalie P. Lounsbury¹, Kevin M. Geyer¹, Lori vandenEnden², Myrna Simpson², Knute J. Nadelhoffer³ and Serita D. Frey¹, (1)Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, (2)Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, (3)Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

 

9:50 AM

Exploitation of fungal nutrient economy by invasive plant jeopardizes future soil productivity in forests

Joseph D. Edwards, Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, Anthony C. Yannarell, Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL and Wendy H. Yang, Program in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

 

10:10 AM

The Australian termite diversity anomaly: the effect of rainfall on termite communities in Queensland, Australia

Rebecca A. Clement^1,2, Keith A. Crandall², Paul Eggleton³ and Amy Zanne⁴, (1)Biological Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, (2)Computational Biology Institute, George Washington University, Washington, DC, (3)Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom, (4)Department of Biological Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC

 

10:10 AM

Climatic controls of decomposition drive the global biogeography of forest tree symbioses

Brian Steidinger, Biology, Stanford University, Tom Crowther, ETH Zürich, J Liang, Purdue University, Michael E. Van Nuland, Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Gijsbert Werner, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Peter B. Reich, Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, Gert-Jan Nabuurs, Wageningen Environmental Research, Wageningen University, Netherlands, Sergio de Miguel, Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia, Spain, Mo Zhou, Dept. of Forestry & Natural Resources, Purdue University, Nicolas Picard, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Bruno Herault, UPR Forêts et Sociétés, University Montpelier, XH Zhao, Research Center of Forest Management Engineering of State Forestry Administration, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China, Devin Routh, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland and Kabir G. Peay, Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

 

10:10 AM

Restoring the forest soil microbiome: Lessons from an old-growth hardwood forest

David J. Burke^1,2, Katharine Stuble^1,2 and Sarah R. Carrino-Kyker¹, (1)The Holden Arboretum, Kirtland, OH, (2)Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

 

10:30 AM

Ecological forecasting of soil bacteria: Predicting taxonomic and functional groups across the United States

Zoey R. Werbin, Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA, Colin Averill, Environmental Systems Sciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, Michael C. Dietze, Earth and Environment, Boston University, Boston, MA and Jennifer M. Bhatnagar, Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA

 

10:30 AM

From the ground up: Prairies, microbes, and soil health on reclaimed mine land

Rebecca M. Swab, Restoration Ecology, The Wilds, Cumberland, OH, Nicola Lorenz, School of Environment and Natural Resources, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH and Richard P. Dick, School of Natural Resources, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

 

10:30 AM

Testing frameworks of plant-soil feedback: Mycorrhizal types, not phylogenetic relationships, influence the local community spatial structure of trees in a temperate hardwood forest

Andrew C. Eagar, Colleen Cosgrove, Mark W. Kershner and Christopher B. Blackwood, Department of Biological Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, OH

 

10:40 AM

Do mycorrhizal associations promote distinct soil microbial communities and microbially-mediated activities?

Richard P. Phillips¹, Katilyn V. Beidler², Tanya E. Cheeke³, Matthew E. Craig², Chao Liang⁴, Peter G. Kennedy⁵, Ryan M. Mushinski⁶ and Jonathan Raff⁶, (1)Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, (2)Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, (3)School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Richland, WA, (4)Chinese Academy of Sciences, (5)Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, (6)School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

 

10:50 AM

Fungal adaptation to simulated nitrogen deposition and implications for carbon cycling

Adriana L. Romero-Olivares and Serita D. Frey, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH

 

10:50 AM

What drives demographic feedbacks at the level of mycorrhizal guilds in a temperate forest?

Cassandra Allsup and Richard A. Lankau, Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

 

10:50 AM

Native mycorrhizal inoculum enhances grassland restoration success

Eric B. Duell¹, Luci O. R. Wilson², Anna O’Hare³ and Gail W.T. Wilson¹, (1)Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, (2)Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, Boise State Univeristy, Boise, ID, (3)Parks, Recreation, and Tourism, Clemson University, Clemson, SC

 

11:10 AM

Role of theory in understanding belowground plant-resource interactions, with particular attention to symbioses and plant-plant competition

Lars O. Hedin, Mingzhen Lu and Avinash Subramanian, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

 

11:10 AM

The role of plant-soil interactions in structuring the resilience of ecosystems to repeated burning

Adam F. A. Pellegrini, Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Tyler K. Refsland, Program in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, Jeff A. Hatten, Department of Forest Engineering, Resources and Management, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR and Robert B. Jackson, Earth System Science, Woods Institute for the Environment, and Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

 

11:10 AM

Quantifying the impact of differences in plant and microbial traits among bioenergy feedstocks on soil organic matter formation to improve model predictions of bioenergy sustainability

Joanna R. Ridgeway¹, Kara E. Allen² and Edward R. Brzostek¹, (1)Department of Biology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, (2)Manaaki Whenua–Landcare Research, Lincoln, WV, New Zealand

 

11:10 AM

Historical forest disturbance alters microbial diversity and ecosystem function in Appalachian soils

Ernest D. Osburn, Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, Blacksburg, VA, Jennifer D. Knoepp, USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, Otto, NC and John E. Barrett, Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

 

 

12:00 PM

Soil Ecology Section Business Meeting

 

 

Thursday PM Talks

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1:30 PM

Fertile ground for collaboration: Advancing community-university partnerships through soil funding

Kirsten Schwarz, Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY

 

1:30 PM

Response of microbial growth and carbon use efficiency to crop rotational diversity across a soil-climate gradient

Maria Mooshammer¹, A. Stuart Grandy², Kevin M. Geyer², Francisco J. Calderon³, Steve Culman⁴, Bill Deen⁵, Rhae A Drijber⁶, Kari E. Dunfield⁷, Serita D. Frey², Virginia L. Jin⁸, Michael Lehman⁹, Shannon Osborne⁹, Marty Schmer⁸ and Timothy M. Bowles¹, (1)Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, (2)Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, (3)USDA-ARS Central Great Plains Research Station, Akron, CO, (4)Senr, The Ohio State University, Wooster, OH, (5)Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (6)Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, (7)School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (8)Agroecosystem Management Research Unit, USDA-ARS, Lincoln, NE, (9)USDA-ARS North Central Agricultural Research Laboratory, Brookings, SD

 

1:50 PM

The effects of urban land-use change and fragmentation on forest soil characteristics

Richard V. Pouyat, Retired, Tara L.E. Trammell, Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE and Lea R. Johnson, Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

 

2:10 PM

Interactions with below-ground organisms alter biomass quality of a candidate bioenergy crop

Binod Basyal, Biology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY and Sarah M. Emery, Biology Dept., University of Louisville, Louisville, KY

 

2:10 PM

Denitrification potential of soils with different land use and nitrogen inputs in semiarid ecosystems

Christopher R. Wenzel¹, Linda T.A. van Diepen² and Peter D. Stahl¹, (1)Ecosystem Science and Management, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, (2)Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY

 

2:30 PM

Do living roots and mycorrhizal fungi decay dead roots? Evidence from a root exclusion experiment in a deciduous hardwood forest

Katilyn V. Beidler, Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, Seth G. Pritchard, Deparment of Biology, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC and Richard P. Phillips, Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

 

2:30 PM

Plant-soil feedbacks and intraspecific competition drive mortality in Quercus rubra seedlings

Fiona Jevon¹, Sydne Record², John M Grady³, Ashley K. Lang¹, Matthew P. Ayres¹ and Jaclyn Hatala Matthes⁴, (1)Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, (2)Biology, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, (3)National Great Rivers Research and Education Center, East Alton, IL, (4)Dept. Biological Sciences, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA

 

2:50 PM

Wood and soil nutrient concentrations influence fungal community composition and the fungal decay of wood

Jennifer M. Jones¹, Astrid Ferrer², Katy D. Heath², Paul-Camilo Zalamea³ and James W. Dalling², (1)Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, (2)Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, (3)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, Panama

 

2:50 PM

Aboveground warming amplifies plant-microbe activity asynchronies and increases carbon and nitrogen loss from soils

Stephanie M. Juice¹, E. Carol Adair¹, Paul G. Schaberg², Gary H. Hawley³, Alexandra M. Kosiba¹, Carl Waite¹, Deane Wang¹ and Julia N. Perdrial⁴, (1)Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, (2)USDA Forest Service, Burlington, VT, (3)Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resoruces, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, (4)Department of Geology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT

 

3:30 PM

Using living plant collections to study plant-soil microbe interactions

Jean H. Burns¹, Yu Liu¹ and Juliana S. Medeiros², (1)Department of Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, (2)The Holden Arboretum, Kirtland, OH

 

3:40 PM

Managing cover crop mixtures to reduce soil N₂O flux while maintaining crop nitrogen assimilation

Alison Bressler and Jennifer Blesh, School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

 

4:00 PM

Global biogeographic patterns may imply species traits for arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

Stephanie N. Kivlin, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, Robert Muscarella, Plant Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Kathleen K. Treseder, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA and Christine V. Hawkes, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

 

4:20 PM

Soil nutrient stocks are maintained over two harvest cycles in tropical industrial plantation forests

Devin E. McMahon¹, Leonardus Vergütz², Samuel V. Valadares², Ivo R. Silva² and Robert B. Jackson³, (1)Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, (2)Dept. of Soil Science, Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil, (3)Earth System Science, Woods Institute for the Environment, and Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

 

4:20 PM

Lithology determines the degree of climatic impacts on soil biological P cycling

Chunhao Gu, Department of Crop Sciences, University of illinois at Urbana-Champagin, Urbana, IL, Stewart G. Wilson, Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources, University of California Davis, Davis, CA and Andrew J. Margenot, Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL

 

Thursday PM Poster Presentations

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4:30 PM – 6:30 PM

 

 

4:30 PM

Invertebrate herbivory rates of four tree species in response to soil warming

Alexandra Kenna, Jacqueline E. Mohan and Paul T. Frankson, Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

 

4:30 PM

Effects of invasive Amur Honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii) on belowground soil CO2 emissions

Aidan G. Shumaker¹, Allie S. Niemeyer², Stefani P. Schmocker¹ and Laurel J. Anderson¹, (1)Department of Botany and Microbiology, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH, (2)Department of Zoology, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH

 

4:30 PM

The Effects of Long-Term Potato Cultivation on Soil Aggregate Structure and Carbon Sequestration Varies as a Function Precipitation in the Tropical Alpine “Páramo” Ecosystem

Jose-Luis Machado, Department of Biology, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA and Timothy Ogolla, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA

 

4:30 PM

Impacts of water availability and soil biota on monocultures and mixtures of perennial crops

Thomas P. McKenna, Kansas Biological Survey, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, Liz Koziol, The Land Institute, James D. Bever, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, Timothy E. Crews, The Land Institute, Salina, KS and Benjamin A. Sikes, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

 

4:30 PM

Neutral plant-soil feedbacks among co-occurring invasive species of tallgrass prairie

Emma Oschrin and Heather L. Reynolds, Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

 

4:30 PM

Effect of L. maackii on riparian woodland plant soil-microbe interactions

Taylor E. Strehl¹, Scott J. Meiners¹ and Thomas Canam², (1)Biological Sciences, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL, (2)Department of Biological Sciences, Eastern Illinois University

 

4:30 PM

Determining the biological turnover rate of phosphate in agricultural soils using stable oxygen isotopes

Margaret R. Duffy, Biology, Bowing Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, Melanie M. Marshall, Biology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH and Kevin E. McCluney, Department of Biological Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH

 

4:30 PM

Effects of soil chemistry on abundance and leaf chemistry of native and invasive shrubs in a southeast Michigan forest

Mahala Lorenzo, Biology and Environmental Science, Ad, Adrian, MI, Molly A.F. Beck, Biology, Adrian College, Adrian, MI and Jeffrey K. Lake, Biology and Environmental Science, Adrian College, Adrian, MI

 

4:40 PM

Soil carbon formation and decay along an experimental litter chemistry gradient

Matthew E. Craig¹, Katilyn V. Beidler¹ and Richard P. Phillips², (1)Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, (2)Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

 

4:40 PM

Understanding the links between soil nitrogen, plants, and pollinators

Thomas Ifor David, Sustainable Agricultural Systems, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom, Jonathan Storkey, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom and Carly J. Stevens, Lancaster Environment Center, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

 

 

Friday AM Talks

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8:00 AM

Predator contribution to spatial heterogeneity in soil nutrients and plant growth

Cody L. Barnes¹, Dror Hawlena² and Shawn M. Wilder¹, (1)Dept. of Integrative Biology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, (2)Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

 

8:20 AM

Carbon and nitrogen exchange in the rhizosphere: Interactions between switchgrass and diazotrophs

Darian Smercina¹, Sarah E. Evans², Alan W Bowsher³, Maren L. Friesen⁴, James R. Cole⁵, David Hoyt⁶, Kirsten S. Hofmockel⁶ and Lisa K. Tiemann¹, (1)Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, (2)Kellogg Biological Station and Dept of Integrative Biology, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, MI, (3)Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, (4)Crop and Soil Sciences/Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, (5)Center for Microbial Ecology and Department of Plant, Soil, and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, (6)EMSL, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA

 

8:30 AM – 10:30 AM

PS 92 Soil

 

8:30 AM

Earthworm enhances ecosystem multifunctionality by shifting functional composition and strengthening trophic connectance of soil community

Manqiang Liu, Ting Liu and Feng Hu, Soil Ecology Lab, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

 

8:30 AM

Earthworms mediate the effects of nitrogen addition on nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide emissions

Shuai Wang, Yong Zheng, Xiaoyun Chen, Feng Hu and Manqiang Liu, Soil Ecology Lab, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

 

8:30 AM

The role of non-toxic substances in earthworm extraction & the distribution of native versus invasive earthworm species & gregarine parasites in the City of Abbotsford

Ajeet Singh Klaer, Ajdin S. Masic and Sharon Gillies, Biology, University of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, BC, Canada

 

8:30 AM

Earthworm population distributions in the city of Abbotsford, B.C., and the number of Gregarine parasites in native and invasive species

Ajdin S. Masic, Ajeet S. Klaer and Sharon Gillies, Biology, University of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, BC, Canada

 

8:30 AM

Contribution of Hawaiian agroforestry mulch decomposition to nitrogen availabilityLeslie Hutchins, Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA and Noa Lincoln, Tropical Plant and Soil Science, University of Hawaii at Manoa

 

8:30 AM

Groundwater depth overrides tree-species effects on the structure of soil microbial communities involved in nitrogen cycling in plantation forests

Tiehang Wu¹, Ashley Gray¹, Gan Liu¹, Hilary Kaminski¹, Bolanle Osi Efa¹ and Doug P. Aubrey², (1)Department of Biology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, (2)Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

 

8:30 AM

Estimation of soil carbon stock in China’s forests using intensive soil sampling and vis-NIR spectroscopy

Shangshi Liu¹, Haihua Shen², Xia Zhao², Luhong Zhou², Aijun Xing³ and Jingyun Fang⁴, (1)Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (3)Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, (4)Institute of Botany, CAS, China

 

8:30 AM

 Potential for remediation of post-industrial urban soils by urban farming and organic matter management

Youngnam Kim, Entomology, The Ohio State University, Wooster, OH, Nick Basta, School of Environment and Natural Resources, The Ohio State University, Colombus, OH, Mary M. Gardiner, Entomology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH and P. Larry Phelan, Entomology, Ohio State University, Wooster, OH

 

8:30 AM

Soil microbial community dynamics in semi-arid ephemeral playas of the Southern High Plains

Meagan Riley¹, Cade Coldren¹, Ken Rainwater², Veronica Acosta-Martinez³ and Lindsey C. Slaughter¹, (1)Plant and Soil Science, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, (2)Civil, Environmental, & Construction Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, (3)Cropping Systems Research Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Lubbock, TX

 

8:30 AM

Responses of soil organic carbon, soil respiration, and associated soil properties to long-term thinning in a semi-arid Picea crassifolia plantation in northwestern China

Longfei Chen, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China

 

8:30 AM

Soil CO₂ efflux elevated 6 years post-wind disturbance and salvage logging

Callie A. Oldfield, Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA and Chris J. Peterson, Dept. of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

 

8:30 AM

Contrasting responses of net ammonification and nitrification to forest conversion are associated with soil microbial community in the subalpine region of the Eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Zuomin Shi and Shun Liu, Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection, Chinese Academy of Forestry

 

8:30 AM

The effect of plant cultivation type and soil depth on soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics

Megan M. Means, Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK and Lara Souza, Oklahoma Biological Survey and Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

 

8:30 AM

Topography and forest structure contribute to spatial heterogeneity of soil respiration in a subtropical forest

Yun Jiang¹, Chengjin Chu², Bingwei Zhang³ and Weitao Wang¹, (1)Department of Ecology, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, (2)SYSU-Alberta Joint Lab for Biodiversity Conservation, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, (3)SYSU-Alberta Joint Lab for Biodiversity Conservation, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

 

8:30 AM

Does nitrogen history influence intraspecific variation in legume traits and responses to soil microbes?

Mackenzie A. Caple, Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

 

8:30 AM

Inter-kingdom interactions in bulk soils and rhizosphere aggregates: Sampling scale influences fungal-bacterial networks

Glade A. Dlott and Kabir Peay, Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

 

8:30 AM

Effects of vegetation restoration on soil microbial biomass in Bashang semiarid area, Northern China

Di Tian, Fei Gao, Xingfei Ge, Ying Tang and Quanhong Lin, College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China

 

8:30 AM

Changes in global soil carbon stocks between 1982 and 2011

Xia Zhao¹, Yuanhe Yang¹, Huifeng Hu¹, Haihua Shen¹, Xiaoqing Geng¹ and Jingyun Fang², (1)State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Institute of Botany, CAS, China

 

8:30 AM

The effects of an experimental wind disturbance on soil respiration

Hadley M. Figueroa¹, Callie A. Oldfield¹ and Chris J. Peterson², (1)Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, (2)Dept. of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

 

8:40 AM

Tree growth response to increases in phosphorus and soil pH is dependent on mycorrhizal associations

Jared L. DeForest and Rebecca S. Snell, Department of Environmental and Plant Biology, Ohio University, Athens, OH

 

8:40 AM

Residential yard management practices control soil carbon and nitrogen in six US cities

Carl Rosier¹, Meghan L. Avolio², Peter M. Groffman³, Susannah B. Lerman⁴, Christopher Neill⁵, Diane E. Pataki⁶ and Tara L.E. Trammell¹, (1)Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, (2)Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, (3)Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY, (4)Northern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Amherst, MA, (5)Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, (6)School of Biological Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

 

9:20 AM

The relationship between aboveground diversity and AMF on agroecosystems

Aidee Guzman¹, Anne Kakouridis¹, Timothy M. Bowles², Mary K. Firestone¹ and Claire Kremen³, (1)Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, (2)Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California – Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, (3)Institute of Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

 

9:20 AM

Warming causes variable cascading effects of wolf spiders on aboveground and belowground microbial diversity and composition in the arctic tundra

Amanda M. Koltz, Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, Akihiro Koyama, Department of Forestry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI and Matthew D. Wallenstein, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

 

9:50 AM

Nitrogen enrichment and warming effects on plant-soil feedback and its correlation with species relative abundance

Kailing Huang¹, Paul Kardol², Xuebin Yan¹ and Hui Guo¹, (1)College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China, (2)Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden

 

10:10 AM

Metagenomic reconstruction of soil carbon and nitrogen cycling pathways beneath American chestnut, black cherry, and Northern red oak

Charlene Kelly¹, Jonathan R. Cumming² and Timothy P. Driscoll², (1)Forestry and Natural Resources, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, (2)Biology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV

 

10:10 AM

Cover crop application shifts soil fungal community composition in dredge sediments

Ashley Julian¹, Megan Rua¹ and Louise M Stevenson², (1)Biological Sciences, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, (2)Biological Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH

 

10:30 AM

Developing a novel plant-microbial interactions model to predict the impacts of bioenergy crops on soil carbon and nitrogen cycling

Edward R. Brzostek¹, Kara E. Allen² and Joanna R. Ridgeway¹, (1)Department of Biology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, (2)Manaaki Whenua–Landcare Research, Lincoln, New Zealand