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Soil Ecology @ ESA 2020

 

 

Soil is important to Ecology

ESA 2020

 

Symposia

 

Earth’s peatland mycobiome: Biogeography and key predictors of fungal community structure.

Jamie Lamit, Biology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, Nathan Basiliko, Biology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, Canada, Chris W. Schadt, Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, Susannah G. Tringe, Joint Genome Institute, Department of Energy, Walnut Creek, CA, Mark P. Waldrop, Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center, US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, Evan S. Kane, School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI and Erik A. Lilleskov, Climate, Fire and Carbon Cycle Sciences, US Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Houghton, MI

Forest mycobiome composition has large effects on tree growth and carbon sequestration rates

Colin Averill, Department of Environmental Systems Sciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich, MA, Switzerland, Mark A. Anthony, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, Leho Tedersoo, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, Johan van den Hoogen, Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland and Tom Crowther, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland

 

 

Organized Oral Sessions

 

Fungal functional ecology: How functional traits shift across ecological strategies

Amy Zanne, Department of Biological Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC

 

Modelling microbial trait evolution to predict soil carbon-climate feedbacks at local and global scales

Elsa Abs, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA

 

Fungal adaptation to simulated nitrogen deposition and implications for carbon cycling.

Adriana L. Romero-Olivares, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, Anne Pringle, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA and Serita D. Frey, Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH

 

Evaluating soil and ecosystem carbon dynamics at the continental scale by leveraging data available from the National Ecological Observatory Network

Debjani Sihi, Appalachian Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Frostburg, MD

 

Biological soil crusts as a key control on aridland nitrogen cycling

Nichole N. Barger, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO and Bettina Weber, Institute for Biology, University of Graz, Austria

 

Plant, soil, and biocrust processes controlling nitrogen movement in dryland soils

Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi1, Eva Stricker2, Catherine Cort1, Kristina E. Young1, Jennifer A. Rudgers3, Jayne Belnap4, Laura Green2 and Robert Sinsabaugh5, (1)Biological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, (2)Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, (3)Sevilleta Long-Term Ecological Research Program, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, (4)Southwest Biological Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Moab, UT, (5)Biology Department, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

 

Nitrous oxide emissions during drought and rewetting are dominated by denitrifying pathways

Eliza Harris1, Eugenio Diaz-Pines2, Elena Stoll1, Michael Schloter3, Stefanie Schulz3, Clara Duffner3, Kexue Li4, Katie L Moore4, Johannes Ingrisch1, David Reinthaler1, Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern2, Stephan Glatzel5, Nicolas Brüggemann6 and Michael Bahn1, (1)University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, (2)BOKU, Vienna, Austria, (3)Helmholtz Zentrum München, Munich, Germany, (4)University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, (5)University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, (6)Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany

 

How rapidly do nitrogen processes adjust to global change in drylands?

Yiqi Luo, Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ and Shuli Niu, Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

 

Growing season drought, but not microbial inocula, impact soil microbial communities and plant growth in corn and soybean fields

Jennifer M. Jones, Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, MI, Kevin Kahmark, W.K. Kellogg Biological Station Long-Term Ecological Research, Michigan State University and Sarah E. Evans, W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, Department of Integrative Biology, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, MI

 

Rainfall timing legacy affects soil microbial population, community and functional responses to drying-rewetting

Lydia H. Zeglin, Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS and Allison Veach, Department of Environmental Science and Ecology, University of Texas San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

 

Modeling soil microbiome responses to drought

Steven D. Allison, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA; Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA and Bin Wang, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA

 

Disentangling the consequences of warming on peat moss associated N2 fixation using microbiome transfers and synthetic communities

David J. Weston, Biosciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, Alyssa Carrell, Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, Travice Lawrence, Biosciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN and Dale A. Pelletier, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN

 

Forest type, leaf litter and moss species controls on moss-associated microbiome and nitrogen fixation rates in western and eastern North American boreal forests

Mélanie Jean, Forestry, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Rouyn-Noranda, QC, Canada, Jill F. Johnstone, Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Michelle C. Mack, Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, Hannah Holland Moritz, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, Yves Bergeron, Forest Research Institute, University of Quebec in Abitibi-Temiscamingue, Rouyn-Noranda, QC, Canada, Marie-Charlotte Nilsson, Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish Univeristy of Agricultural Sciences, Umea, Sweden and Nicole Fenton, Forest research institute, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Rouyn-Noranda, QC, Canada

 

Plant phenological and soil physicochemical effects on nitrogen fixation in switchgrass

Sarah S. Roley1, Carmella Vizza1, Daniel H. Buckley2, Sean J. Murphy2 and G. Philip Robertson3, (1)School of the Environment, Washington State University, Richland, WA, (2)School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, (3)W. K. Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, MI

 

The effects of rainfall frequency on associative nitrogen fixation (ANF) in switchgrass

Carmella Vizza1, Daniel H. Buckley2, Sean J. Murphy2, G. Philip Robertson3 and Sarah S. Roley1, (1)School of the Environment, Washington State University, Richland, WA, (2)School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, (3)W. K. Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, MI

 

Temperature regulates continental-scale community assembly processes in forest soils

Daliang Ning, Institute for Environmental Genomics and Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK and 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

 

Multi-omic insights into soil microbiome functional capacity

Kirsten S. Hofmockel1,2, Dan Naylor1, Janet K. Jansson1 and Ryan Mcclure1, (1)Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, (2)Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA

 

High carbon losses from oxygen-limited soils challenge biogeochemical models: A role for microbial acclimation?

Steven J. Hall1, Wenjuan Huang2, Kefeng Wang3, Stephanie Napieralski4, Eric Roden4 and Gangsheng Wang5, (1)Ecology, Evolution & Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, (2)Ecology, Evolution, & Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, (3)Northwest University, Xi’an, China, (4)University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, (5)University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

 

Detection of stress functional responses in bacterial populations under dry soil conditions show potential microbial mechanisms to resist drought conditions

Soumyadev Sarkar1, Kaitlyn Ward1, Qinghong Ran1, Janet K. Jansson2 and Sonny Lee3, (1)Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, (2)Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, (3)Kansas State University, KS

 

Fine-roots and fungal friends: How various trait combinations make up diverse belowground strategies

Monique Weemstra1,2, Natasa Kiorapostolou2, Jasper van Ruijven3, Liesje Mommer4, Jorad de Vries5 and Frank J. Sterck6, (1)CNRS – Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE), Montpellier, France, (2)Forest Ecology and Forest Management, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands, (3)Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands, (4)Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands, (5)Centre for Crop System Analysis, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands, (6)Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands

 

Trade-offs among functional traits aid predictions for mycorrhizal fungal dispersal

Bala Chaudhary, Department of Environmental Science and Studies, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, Carlos Aguilar-Trigueros, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany and Matthias C. Rillig, Plant Ecology, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Berlin, Germany

 

Ectomycorrhizal networks at the temperate-boreal ecotone: Do fungal traits govern structure and response to climate change?

Christopher W. Fernandez1, Louis Mielke2, Artur Stefanski3, Sarah E. Hobbie4, Rebecca A. Montgomery3, Peter B. Reich3 and Peter G. Kennedy5, (1)Plant & Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, (2)Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, (3)Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, (4)Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, (5)Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN

 

Taking fine-root and fungal traits beyond the mycorrhizal frontier – Mycorrhizae, saprotrophs, endophytes, and pathogens

Brian J. Pickles1, Monika A Gorzelak2, Lisa O’Donnell3, Sarah Duddigan1, Cristina M. Campbell3, Laurel L. Moulton3 and Charles R. Hauser4, (1)University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, (2)Lethbridge RDC, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lethbridge, AB, Canada, (3)Balcones Canyonlands Preserve, City of Austin, Austin, TX, (4)Biological Sciences, St Edward’s University, Austin, TX

 

Harnessing the ecological data revolution to develop a more holistic view of belowground ecosystem function

Colleen M. Iversen, Climate Change Science Institute and Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN

 

Environment shapes mycorrhizal phenotypes and community structure

Nancy Collins Johnson, School of Earth and Sustainability, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ

 

Tradeoffs between attracting mutualists and repelling parasites in the plant root microbiome

Corlett Wood, University of Pittsburgh

 

Alfalfa in the middle: Microbial symbionts and herbivore defense

Anson C Call, Biology, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV and Elizabeth G. Pringle, Department of Biology, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV

 

Species differences in fine-root production phenology: Implications and model relevance

Luke McCormack1, Marvin Lo1, Newton Tran1, Colleen M. Iversen2, Dan M. Ricciuto3 and Dan Lu4, (1)Center for Tree Science, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL, (2)Climate Change Science Institute and Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, (3)Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, (4)Computational Sciences and Engineering Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN

 

Functional phenomics and genetics of the crop root economics spectrum

Larry M. York, Haichao Guo and Xue-feng Ma, Noble Research Institute, Ardmore, OK

 

Exploring relationships of foraging strategies between roots and mycorrhizas

Deliang Kong, College of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China; College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, China

 

Evaluating the impact of native soil microbiomes on root traits and plant performance in a perennial grass using a quantitative genetics approach

Albina Khasanova1, Joseph Edwards1, Jason Bonnette2 and Thomas Juenger1, (1)Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, (2)Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

 

Root traits mediate changes in root biomass with soil acidification in an alpine meadow

Peng Wang, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

 

A lost dimension: The ecology of deep roots

Mingzhen Lu, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton Univiersity, Princeton, NJ, Sili Wang, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University, New York, Dali Guo, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and Lars O. Hedin, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

 

Idiosyncratic adaptations in root functional traits of hyper-diverse tree lineages in tropical forests

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

 

Root dynamics response to warming and hurricane disturbance in a tropical forest of Puerto Rico

Daniela Yaffar1, Richard J. Norby1, Tana E. Wood2 and Sasha C. Reed3, (1)Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, (2)International Institute of Tropical Forestry, USDA Forest Service, Rio Piedras, PR, (3)Southwest Biological Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Moab, UT

 

Can phosphorus acquisition strategies offer a pathway for tropical forest resilience to global changes?

Kelly M. Andersen, Ming Yang Lee and Marcus Lim, Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Techological University, Singapore, Singapore

 

Intraspecific variation of root traits under drought and competition

Magda Garbowski, Ecology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, Danielle B. Johnston, Colorado Division of Parks and Wildlife, Grand Junction, CO and Cynthia S. Brown, Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

 

Mangrove root production responses to reforestation in south Vietnam

Marie Arnaud1,2, Paul J. Morris1, Andrew J. Baird1, Thuong Huyen Dang3 and Tai Tue Nguyen4, (1)University of Leeds, (2)University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, (3)Ho Chí Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT), (4)Vietnam National University University of Science

 

Relationship among maximum rooting depth, leaf phenology, and drought resistance in tropical dry forest lianas and trees

Chris M. Smith-Martin, Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, Xiangtao Xu, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Boston, MA, David Medvigy, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN and Jennifer S. Powers, Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

 

Inspire

 

INS 20 – Harnessing the Soil Ecological Data Revolution: Challenges, Opportunities, and a United Way Forward

 

Meet in the middle: Losing the ‘um’ from the continuum of root traits to soil organic matter pools

Colleen M. Iversen, Climate Change Science Institute and Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, Dan M. Ricciuto, Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, Dan Lu, Computational Sciences and Engineering Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN and Avni Malhotra, Institute for the Environment, Stanford, Stanford, CA

 

Biogeography of soil invertebrates at the global scale

Erin K. Cameron, Environmental Science, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, NS, Canada, Helen R.P. Phillips, iDiv – German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Germany, Inês S. Martins, University of York, United Kingdom, Carlos A. Guerra, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Germany and Nico Eisenhauer, Institute of Ecology, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Jena, Germany

 

Microbes matter: Integrating microbial sequence information for global biodiversity

Kelly S Ramirez, Biological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso

 

Global modeling of soil communities

Stephanie N. Kivlin, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, TN

 

Soil fungal trait ecology: Lessons learned from plants

Amy Zanne, Department of Biological Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC

 

Integrating large scale soil respiration and other datasets to advance global soil ecology

Ben Bond-Lamberty, JGCRI, PNNL, MD

 

The importance of prediction in (soil) ecology

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

 

Integrating soil ecology into terrestrial carbon cycle models: Why, how, and should we do it?

Benjamin N. Sulman, Climate Change Science Institute and Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN

 

Pairing large, standardized datasets with targeted experiments for new soil insights

Samantha R. Weintraub, National Ecological Observatory Network, Battelle

 

Workshop

 

Soil, food and healthy communities: Farmer-led research in Malawi

Rachel Bezner Kerr, Development Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

 

  

Contributed Talks

 

Coupling rice with fish can maintain yield and soil fertility with low fertilizer input

Zijun Ji, Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

 

Breeders can improve host-plant mycorrhizal responsiveness to optimize productivity and reduce negative environmental impacts

Adam B. Cobb1, R. Michael Miller2, Yanqi Q. Wu3, Kaitlin B. Haase4 and Gail W.T. Wilson1, (1)Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, (2)Biosciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, (3)Plant and Soil, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, (4)Environmental Sciences & Policy, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ

 

Correcting for spatial sampling bias in biological records data and modeling millipede distributions

Willson Gaul1, Dinara Sadykova2, Niall Keogh3, Hannah J. White1, Lupe León-Sánchez2, Paul Caplat2, Mark C. Emmerson2, Tomás E. Murray4 and Jon M. Yearsley1, (1)School of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, (2)School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom, (3)Marine and Freshwater Research Centre, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, Galway, Ireland, (4)National Biodiversity Data Centre, Waterford, Ireland

 

Historical forest disturbance mediates soil microbial response to drought in Appalachian ecosystems

Ernest D. Osburn, Julia Simpson and J. E. Barrett, Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

 

Interactive effects of woody plant expansion and prescribed fire on ecosystem C, N, and P cycling in the Northern Great Plains

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

 

A comparison of soil respiration at two wind disturbed forests in the southeastern USA

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

 

Microbial enzyme activity and potential drivers of activity in seasonal subalpine snowpack in the Snowy Range, WY, USA

Abigail S Hoffman, Program in Ecology, Department of Botany, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, Linda T.A. van Diepen, Program in Ecology and Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY and David G. Williams, Department of Botany, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY

 

Nitrogen, water, and temperature effects on belowground biomass and carbon cycling

Eva Stricker1, Renée F. Brown1, Gregory E. Maurer2, Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi3, Alesia J. Hallmark1, Scott L. Collins1 and Jennifer A. Rudgers4, (1)Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, (2)Jornada Basin LTER, New Mexico State University, Albuquerque, NM, (3)Biological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, (4)Sevilleta Long-Term Ecological Research Program, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

 

Effect of nitrogen fertilization on early- and late-stage litter decomposition: A meta-analysis

Allison L. Gill, Biology, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, Jonathan Schilling, Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN and Sarah E. Hobbie, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN

 

Incorporation of foliar microbial communities alters the directionality of plant-soil feedback

Noah Luecke, Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston and Kerri M. Crawford, Bio, University of Houston, Houston, TX

 

City-wide characterization of atmospheric microbial communities in subway and outdoor airs and the relationship to land use in Philadelphia, PA, USA

Justin Stewart1, Peleg Kremer2, Kabindra Shakya2 and Meghan Conway2, (1)GEV, Villanova University, PHILADELPHIA, PA, (2)Geography and the Enviroment, Villanova University, PHILADELPHIA, PA

 

Do complex trophic cascades determine tree-grass ratios in an African savanna ecosystem?

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

 

Temporal, functional, and spatial complementarity in mammal-fungal spore networks enhances mycorrhizal dispersal following clear-cuts

Ryan B. Stephens1, Rebecca J. Rowe1 and Serita D. Frey2, (1)Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, (2)Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH

 

From ocean to desert via fog: Microbial movement, colonization, and activity in the Namib Desert, Namibia

Sarah E. Evans1, Robert Logan1, Kathryn M. Jacobson2, Fitsum Getahun3, M Elias Dueker4 and Kathleen C. Weathers5, (1)W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, Department of Integrative Biology, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, MI, (2)Department of Biology, Grinnell College, IA, (3)Grinnell College, (4)Environmental and Urban Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, (5)Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY

 

Impact of Phytophthora agathidicida infection on canopy water yields and nutrient fluxes in a kauri dominated forest

Luitgard Schwendenmann, School of Environment, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand and Beate Michalzik, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany

 

Biocrusts are the most influential soil surface stabilizing force in drylands

Matthew A. Bowker1, Bala Chaudhary2, Anita J. Antoninka1, Kristina E. Young3, Scott Ferrenberg4, Colin Tucker5, Fernando T. Maestre6, Emilio Rodriguez-Caballero7, Nichole N. Barger8, Jayne Belnap9, Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi3, David J. Eldridge10, Akasha Faist11, Caroline A. Havrilla12, Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald13, Oumarou Malam Issa14, Sasha C. Reed9, Bettina Weber15, Yunge Zhao16, Yuanming Zhang17, Xiaobing Zhou17, Michael C. Duniway9, Mark E. Miller18, Matthew Van Skoyoc19, Juan José Gaitán20, Gabrial Oliva21, Virginia Massara22 and German Cariac23, (1)School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, (2)Department of Environmental Science and Studies, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, (3)Biological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, (4)Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, (5)Northern Research Station, US Forest Service, Houghton, MI, (6)Multidisciplinary Institute for Environmental Studies “Ramon Margalef”, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain, (7)Departamento de Agronomía, Universidad de Almería, Almería, Spain, (8)Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, (9)Southwest Biological Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Moab, UT, (10)Evolution and Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological,Earth, and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia, (11)Department Animal and Range Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, (12)Southwest Biological Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Flagstaff, AZ, (13)División de Ciencias Ambientales, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (IPICYT), Mexico, (14)Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France, (15)Institute for Biology, University of Graz, Austria, (16)State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China, (17)Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China, (18)Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Preserve, National Park Service, AK, (19)Southeast Utah Group, National Park Service, Moab, UT, (20)Instituto de Suelos, INTA, Buenos Aires, Argentina, (21)Estación Experimental Santa Cruz, INTA, Río Gallegos, Argentina, (22)Estación Experimental Chubut, INTA, Trelew, Argentina, (23)Estación Experimental Valle Inferior, INTA, Viedma, Argentina

 

A microbial feedback between nitrogen mineralization and soil organic matter biochemistry

William A. Argiroff, Rima A. Upchurch and Donald R. Zak, School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

 

Understanding a 5-year shift in the composition of Adirondack hardwood seedling communities: The role of soil nutrients and climate

Michael R. Zarfos1, Martin Dovciak1, Gregory B. Lawrence2, Todd C. McDonnell3 and Timothy J. Sullivan3, (1)Department of Environmental and Forest Biology, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY, (2)New York Water Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Troy, NY, (3)E&S Environmental Chemistry, Inc, Corvallis, OR

 

Large influence of soil moisture on microbial and carbon-nitrogen cycling

Gangsheng Wang, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

 

Satellite-observed patterns of plant water refilling and growth response following pulses of soil moisture availability

Andrew F. Feldman1, Daniel J. Short Gianotti1, Alexandra G. Konings2, Apisada Chulakadabba3, Pierre Gentine4 and Dara Entekhabi5, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, (2)Stanford University, (3)Harvard University, (4)Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, (5)Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute for Technology, Cambridge, MA

 

Above-belowground multitrophic community dynamics in response to changing environments

Munoz Gabriel1, Isaac M.K. Eckert2, Tonia DeBellis2, Martin Nuñez3 and Jean-Philippe Lessard2, (1)Faculty of Arts and Science, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada, (2)Biology, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada, (3)Grupo de Ecología de Invasiones, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Bariloche, Argentina

 

Robinia pseudoacacia seedlings and saplings invest more in thorns when they have more nitrogen

Duncan N. L. Menge1, Sian Kou-Giesbrecht1, Palani R. Akana1, Kathleen C. Pereira1 and Amelia A. Wolf1,2,3, (1)Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, (2)Plant Sciences, UC-Davis, Davis, CA, (3)Integrative Biology, UT-Austin, Austin, TX

 

Microbial produced soil organic matter is influenced by soil physiochemical properties

Sheryl L. Bell, Christopher P. Kasanke and Kirsten S. Hofmockel, Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA

 

Depth and microtopography influence microbial biogeochemical processes in peatlands

Ashley D. Keiser1, Christina Davis2, Montana Smith3, Sheryl L. Bell4, Erik A. Hobbie5 and Kirsten S. Hofmockel4, (1)Stockbridge School of Agriculture, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, (2)Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, FL, (3)EMSL, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, (4)Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, (5)Earth Systems Research Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH

 

Distinct carbon fractions drive a widely applicable two pool model of fungal necromass decomposition

Craig R. See, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, Christopher W. Fernandez, Plant & Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, Anna Conley, Carleton College, Katherine A. Heckman, Northern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Livermoe, CA, Lang C Delancey, Ecology Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Falcon Heights, MN, Peter G. Kennedy, Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN and Sarah E. Hobbie, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN

 

Is the soil seed bank a reliable source for passive restoration of bush cleared semi-arid rangelands of South Africa?

Mthunzi Mndela1,2, Casper I. Madakadze1, Florence Nherera-Chokuda3 and Sikhalazo Dube4, (1)Plant and soil sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, (2)Rangelands and Forage, Agricultural Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa, (3)Animal nutrition, National Emegent Meat Producers Organisation (NERPO) of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, (4)Rangelands, International Livestock Research Institute, Harare, Zimbabwe

 

Soil microbial community response to cover crop mixtures, termination methods, and climate in the Northern Great Plains

Tindall Ouverson1, Mary Ellyn DuPre1, Suzanne L. Ishaq2, Maryse Bourgault3, Darrin Boss3, Fabian Menalled1 and Tim Seipel1, (1)Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, (2)School of Food and Agriculture, University of Maine, Orono, ME, (3)Northern Agricultural Research Center, Montana State University, Havre, MT

 

Nitrogen fixation of soil biocrusts in Florida citrus and grape

Kira Sorochkina1, Patrick W. Inglett2 and Sarah L. Strauss1, (1)Soil and Water Sciences, University of Florida, Immokalee, FL, (2)Soil and Water Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

 

Community assembly of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on agroecosystems

Aidee Guzman1, Grace Pratt1, Timothy M. Bowles1 and Claire Kremen1,2, (1)Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, (2)Institute of Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

 

Soil from diversified cereal cropping systems alter constitutive and herbivore-induced volatile emissions by wheat

Shealyn C. Malone1, David Weaver2, Fabian Menalled1, Tim Seipel1 and Amy Trowbridge3, (1)Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, (2)Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, (3)Entomology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

 

The novel use of remote sensing to model belowground microbial and nutrient dynamics in a semi-arid shrub encroached system

Martha Farella1, David Breshears2, Willem J.D. van Leeuwen3, Jessica Mitchell4 and Rachel E. Gallery2, (1)School of Natural Resources and the Environment, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, (2)School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, (3)School of Natural Resources and the Environment; School of Geography and Development, University of Arizona, (4)Montana Natural Heritage Program, University of Montana, Missoula, MT

 

Unraveling the mechanisms of below- and aboveground liana-tree competition in tropical forests

David Medvigy1, Chris M. Smith-Martin2, Seth Parker1, Alyssa Willson1, Isabelle Marechaux3, Peter Tiffin4, Jerome Chave5 and Jennifer S. Powers6, (1)Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, (2)Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, (3)INRA-Montpellier, France, (4)Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, (5)Evolution & Biological Diversity, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France, (6)Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

 

Mycorrhizal associations better predict tree effects on soil than leaf habit

Meghan G. Midgley1 and Rachel Sims1,2, (1)Center for Tree Science, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL, (2)Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN

 

Soil microbial and organic matter resilience to historical disturbance regimes in an eastern deciduous forest

Gregory Martin, Plant and Soil Sciences, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, Walter P. Carson, Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA and Zachary Freedman, Division of Plant and Soil Sciences, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV

 

You’ve got me going in circles: Feedbacks in the boreal forests of Alaska

Melissa S. Lucash1, Brian Buma2, Timothy E. Link3, Vladimir Romanovsky4, Jason G. Vogel5, Dmitry Nicolsky6, Robert M. Scheller7, Rosvel Bracho5, Adrienne Marshall8, Jason A. Shabaga9, Katherine Hayes10 and Shelby Weiss11, (1)Department of Geography, Portland State University, Portland, OR, (2)Natural Science, University of Colorado, Denver, Denver, CO, (3)College of Natural Resources, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, (4)University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK, (5)School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, (6)University of Alaska Fairbanks, (7)Department of Environmental Science and Management, Portland State University, Portland, OR, (8)University of Idaho, (9)University of Florida, (10)University of Colorado Denver, (11)Geography, Portland State University, Portland, OR

 

Soil microorganisms drive plant responses in dredge sediments amended soils

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

 

Non-analog increases to surface and belowground soil temperature extremes across central and western US ecosystems in the 21st century

Matthew D. Petrie1, John B. Bradford2, William K. Lauenroth3, Daniel R. Schlaepfer3, Caitlin M. Andrews4 and David M. Bell5, (1)School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, (2)Southwest Biological Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Flagstaff, AZ, (3)School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT, (4)Southwest Biological Science Center, USGS, Flagstaff, AZ, (5)Pacific Northwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Corvallis, OR

 

Fungivores connecting “green” and “brown” worlds: An underappreciated link between aboveground and belowground food webs under differing land management

Monica A. Farfan, School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, John Coffey, Coastal Research and Education Center, Clemson University, Charleston, SC and Rebecca A. Schmidt-Jeffris, Temperate Tree Fruit and Vegetable Laboratory, USDA, Wapato, WA

 

Methanogen activity and community structure in methane consuming tropical forest soils

Hannah B. Shulman, Microbiology & Plant Pathology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, Emma L. Aronson, University of California Riverside and Michael F. Allen, Plant Pathology and Microbiology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA

 

Impacts of fresh litter inputs on microbial C degradation and CH4 fluxes across an Arctic permafrost thaw gradient

Moira Hough1, Steven Blazewicz2, Lindsey M Solden3, Malak M. Tfaily4,5, Ellen Dorrepaal6, Patrick M. Crill7, Virginia Rich3 and Scott R. Saleska8, (1)Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, (2)Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, (3)Microbiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, (4)Deparment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, (5)Soil, Water, and Environmental Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, (6)Climate Impacts Research Centre (CIRC), Umeå University, Abisko, Sweden, (7)Stockholm University, (8)Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

 

Uncovering the pyro-microbiome: ecological and genomic responses of plant and soil microbial communities to wildfire

Nicholas C. Dove1, Neslihan Taş2, Melissa A. Cregger1,3, Stephen C. Hart4,5 and Christopher W. Schadt1,6,7, (1)Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, (2)Climate & Ecosystems Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, (3)Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, (4)Department of Life & Environmental Sciences, University of California, Merced, Merced, CA, (5)Sierra Nevada Research Institute, Merced, CA, (6)Climate Change Sciences Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, (7)Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

 

Illuminating root influence on soil carbon dynamics: Plant viruses as tools to manipulate root properties and rhizodeposition

Carolyn M. Malmstrom1, Zoe G. Cardon2, Marco Keiluweit3, Mariela Garcia-Arredondo4, Tobias Bölscher4,5, Malak M. Tfaily6, Suzanne M. Thomas2, Kota Nakasato1, Xinyu Fu1,7, Berkley Walker1,7, Rebecca B. Neumann8 and William J. Riley9, (1)Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, (2)Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, (3)Stockbridge School of Agriculture, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, (4)School of Earth & Sustainability, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, (5)Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, (6)Soil, Water, and Environmental Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, (7)DOE Plant Research Laboratory, East Lansing, MI, (8)Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, (9)Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA

 

 How soil texture, climate, and disturbance interact to determine plant community composition in the shrub-grass mosaic of Southern California

Sarah Kimball1, Priscilla Ta2, Katharina Schmidt2 and Zach Principe3, (1)Center for Environmental Biology, UC Irvine, (2)UC Irvine, (3)The Nature Conservancy

 

Feedbacks between population growth and land use strategies: Agricultural extensification and intensification and its impact on sustainability

Diego Bengochea Paz, Kirsten Henderson and Michel Loreau, Theoretical and Experimental Ecology Station (CNRS), Moulis, France

 

Effects of wildfire on belowground carbon and nitrogen dynamics in the Sierra Nevada

Mary K. Brady1, Erin Hanan1, Jessica R. Miesel2, Jonathan Greenberg1, Matthew Dickinson3, Carol Ewell3 and Laura Wade1, (1)Natural Resources & Environmental Science, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV, (2)Forestry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, (3)US Forest Service

 

Patterns of host promiscuity among legumes varying in invasiveness differ between global and regional scales

Metha M. Klock1, Kyle E. Harms2, Peter H. Thrall3 and Luke G. Barrett3, (1)Department of Environmental Studies, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, (2)Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, (3)CSIRO Agriculture Flagship, Canberra, Australia

 

Effect of soil-borne pathogens on seedling establishment patterns in forest systems

Eric P. Sodja, School of Biological Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT and Noelle G. Beckman, Ecology Center / Biology Department, Utah State University, Logan, UT

 

Terrestrial biosolids applications for wildlife restoration on degraded grasslands

Karen E. Hodges, Biology, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, BC, Canada and Frank I. Doyle, Wildlife Dynamics Inc., Smithers, BC, Canada

 

Overcoming the constraints to precision seed delivery in arid, mined landscapes that possess rocky soils, steep terrain, and severe edaphic conditions

Todd E. Erickson1,2, Monte Masarei3, Andrew L. Guzzomi3, Elvan Ling3,4, Matthew D. Madsen5, Jeremy J. James6, Scott R. Abella7, Miriam Muñoz-Rojas1,4,8 and David J. Merritt1, (1)Kings Park Science, Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, Kings Park, Australia, (2)School of Biological Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia, (3)School of Engineering, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia, (4)School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia, (5)Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, (6)Sierra Foothills Research and Extension Center, University of California, Davis, (7)School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, (8)School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

 

Nitrogen fixation strategies across a nitrogen gradient vary in rhizobial and actinorhizal trees

Amelia A. Wolf, Integrative Biology, UT-Austin, Austin, TX, Duncan N. L. Menge, Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, Jennifer L. Funk, Schmid College of Science & Technology, Chapman University, CA and Steven Perakis, US Geological Survey, Corvallis, OR

 

Across grasslands worldwide, nitrogen accelerates litter decomposition, especially in its early stages

Sarah E. Hobbie1, Allison L. Gill2, Elizabeth T. Borer3, Christoper R. Buyarksi4, Eric W. Seabloom3 and The NutNet Consorteum5, (1)Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, (2)Ecology, Evolution, & Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, (3)Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, (4)University of Canterbury, (5)Nutrient Network (www.nutnet.org)

 

Soil community responses to glacial retreat areas using meta-analysis

Satyendra Kumar Pothula, Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT and Byron J. Adams, Department of Biology, Evolutionary Ecology Laboratories, and Monte L. Bean Museum, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

 

Soil microbial succession following surface mining disturbance is governed primarily by environmental conditions

Jenni Kane, Ember M. Morrissey, Jeffrey G. Skousen and Zachary Freedman, Division of Plant and Soil Sciences, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV

 

Soil microbial communities and antibiotic resistant bacteria in prairie buffer strip soils after manure application

Laura M. Alt1, Alyssa N. Iverson2, Michelle L. Soupir2, Thomas B. Moorman3 and Adina C. Howe2, (1)Environmental Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, (2)Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, (3)National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment, USDA ARS, Ames, IA

 

The impact of mycorrhizal networks on Quercus rubra seedling recruitment

Sam A.Z. Schaffer-Morrison, School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI and Ines Ibanez, University of Michigan

 

Phylogenetic signaling helps explain interspecific variation in milkweed responses to mycorrhizal symbionts

Eric B. Duell1, Mark Fishbein2 and Gail W.T. Wilson1, (1)Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, (2)Plant Biology, Ecology, and Evolution, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK

 

Microbial community structure in recovering forests of Mount St. Helens

Mia R. Maltz, University of California Irvine; Center for Conservation Biology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, Michala Phillips, Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, Rebecca R. Hernandez, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, Hannah Freund, Genetics, Genomics, and Bioinformatics, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA, Hannah B. Shulman, Microbiology & Plant Pathology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, Jon K. Botthoff, Center for Conservation Biology, UC Riverside, Michael F. Allen, Plant Pathology and Microbiology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA and Emma L. Aronson, University of California Riverside

 

Mycorrhizal dominance of forests predicts soil fungal community composition, diversity, and function

Andrew C. Eagar1, Ryan M. Mushinski2, Amber L. Horning3, Kurt A. Smemo4, Richard P. Phillips5 and Christopher B. Blackwood1, (1)Department of Biological Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, OH, (2)School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, (3)Department of Biology, University of Mississippi, University, MS, (4)Environmental Studies and Sciences, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, (5)Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

 

 Implications for co-existence of plant-mycorrhizal feedback patterns across plant families

Robert J. Ramos and James D. Bever, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

 

Moving together: Long-term effects of inoculation with sympatric soil microbes on the composition of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities

Martina Janouskova1, Michael Remke2, Nancy C. Johnson3, Alena Blazkova1, Zuzana Kolarikova1 and Matthew A. Bowker4, (1)Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Pruhonice, Czech Republic, (2)Forestry, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, (3)Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, (4)School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ

 

Soil temperature and timing of spring snowmelt drive arrowleaf balsamroot phenology in montane meadows

Simone Durney, Diane M. Debinski and Arden Engel, Ecology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT

 

Demographic context and soil conditioning rate determine the effects of soil microbes on plant competitive outcome

Po-Ju Ke and Jonathan M. Levine, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

 

Saving FACE: A low-cost alternative for plant CO2 enrichment experiments

Paige V. Kouba1, Andrew M. Latimer1, Sydne Record2, Matthew E. Gilbert3 and Thomas N. Buckley1, (1)Plant Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, (2)Harvard Forest, Harvard University, Petersham, MA, (3)Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis, Davis, CA

 

Exploring the ecological collaborations of Coriandrum sativum with its rhizospheric microbial partners

Vishwadeep Mane1,2, Tripti Bapat2 and Virbhdra Rakshe2,3, (1)Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India, (2)Microbiology, D.B.F. Dayanand College of Arts and Science, Solapur, India, (3)Microbiology, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, India

 

Changes in climate and trophic interactions affect secondary succession in water-limited, post-fire environments

Joshua Gilman1, Richard A. Gill1, Samuel B. St. Clair2 and Tara B.B. Bishop3, (1)Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, (2)Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, (3)Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

Rapid recovery of ecosystems following a volcanic eruption in Patagonia

Dylan Fischer, Evergreen Ecosystem Ecology Laboratory, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, Charles M. Crisafulli, Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, U.S. Forest Service and Nina Ferrari, Mount St. Helens Institute, Amboy, WA

 

Succession, not host plant developmental status, determines microbial assemblages

Reilly R. Dibner, EPSCoR, Botany, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, Marcus T Brock, Botany, University of Wyoming, A. Monique Weaver, The University of Iowa and Cynthia Weinig, Departments of Botany and Molecular Biology, Program in Ecology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY

 

Plant biodiversity enriches soil cations exchange capacity and fertility through a positive feedback effect of productivity

George N. Furey, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN and David Tilman, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN; Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

 

Invasive grass fuel loads suppress seedling emergence by increasing fire intensity and soil heating

Giovanna Tomat-Kelly, Whalen W. Dillon and S. Luke Flory, Agronomy Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

 

Reduction of Phragmites australis growth through disruption of root to bacterium signaling

James White1, Kathryn Kingsley1, Qiuwei (Celeste) Zhang1, Hadeel Almaliki1, Wesley Bickford2 and Kurt P. Kowalski3, (1)Plant Biology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, (2)Great Lakes Science Center, USGS, Ann Arbor, MI, (3)Great Lakes Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Ann Arbor, MI

 

Tundra wildfire triggers long-term lateral nutrient loss in Alaskan Arctic

Ben Abbott1, Adrian Rocha2, Arial J Shogren3, Jay P Zarnetske4, William B Abbott5, Samuel P. Bratsman6, Leika Abbott6, Rachel Abbott6, Rebecca J. Abbott6 and Sarah M. Ludwig7, (1)Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, (2)Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, (3)Michigan State University, (4)Earth and Environmental Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, (5)University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, (6)Brigham Young University Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Provo, UT, (7)Biology & Environmental Studies, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN

 

Climatic and geochemical controls on soil carbon at the continental scale: Interactions and thresholds

Wenjuan Yu1, Steven J. Hall1 and Samantha R. Weintraub2, (1)Ecology, Evolution & Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, (2)National Ecological Observatory Network, Battelle

 

Short-term response and long-term trajectory of hurricane disturbance: Impacts of Hurricane Maria on forest biogeochemistry in Puerto Rico

Christine S. O’Connell, Environmental Studies, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN; Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, Omar Gutierrez del Arroyo, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Alicia Sadowski, University of California, Berkeley and Whendee L. Silver, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA

 

Carbon and nitrogen couplings in a microbially-explicit soil model and the global-scale Soil Data Harmonization (SoDaH) database

Emily Kyker-Snowman, University of New Hampshire, Katerina Georgiou, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, Melannie D. Hartman, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, Will R. Wieder, INSTAAR, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, Derek N. Pierson, Department of Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, Asmeret A. Berhe, School of Natural Sciences, University of California, Merced, Merced, CA, Jason P. Kaye, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA and A. Stuart Grandy, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH

 

Coupled dynamics of carbon geochemistry and nitrogen inputs in grassland soils

Qian Zhao1, Kirsten S. Hofmockel1, Allison Thompson1, Stephen J. Callister2, William C. Nelson2, Malak M. Tfaily1, Sheryl L. Bell1 and Sarah E. Hobbie3, (1)Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, (3)Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN

 

Forest floor and soil organic carbon pools are decoupled in northeastern forests

Adam R. Noel, Natural Resources, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, Anthony W. D’Amato, The Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, Christopher W. Woodall, Northern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Durham, NH and E.C. Adair, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT

 

Poor soil, rich forest: Leaf nutrients and habitat specialization in an Amazonian forest

Marcel Vaz, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, José L.C. Camargo, Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA) and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Manaus, Brazil, Alberto Vicentini, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Brazil, Alexandre A. Oliveira, Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, Benjamin L. Turner, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama and Nathan Kraft, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

 

Microbial life history strategies in arid soils

Yongjian Chen, Julia W. Neilson, Priyanka Kushwaha, Raina M. Maier and Albert Barberán, Department of Environmental Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

 

A competitive groundcover alters grape rhizosphere and soil bacteria communities in an Eastern US Vineyard

Suzanne M. Fleishman1,2,3, Terrence H. Bell3,4, David M. Eissenstat2,3 and Michela Centinari1,3, (1)Plant Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, (2)Ecosystem Science and Management, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, (3)Graduate Program in Ecology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, (4)Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

 

Large wildfire impacts on riparian forests in a tropical savanna biome

Bernardo M. Flores1, Marina Hirota2, Michele de Sá Dechoum2, Isabel B. Schmidt3 and Rafael Oliveira1, (1)University of Campinas, Brazil, (2)Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, (3)Department of Ecology, University of Brasilia

 

Fungal hyphal networks play a key role in soil microbiome micronutrient acquisition and transport

Christopher Anderton1, Arunima Bhattacharjee1, Jocelyn Richardson2, Odeta Qafoku3, Kaitlyn Schwarz3, Zihua Zhu3, Mark Engelhard3, Mark Bowden3, Sheryl L. Bell4, Kirsten S. Hofmockel4 and Janet K. Jansson4, (1)Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland, WA, (2)2Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, Menlo Park, CA, (3)Pacific Northwest National Lab, (4)Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA

 

Towards more resilient rural landscapes: Lessons learned from contrasting agricultural systems in Mexico and the Western Highlands of Guatemala

Keith L. Kline, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, Santiago Lopez-Ridaura, CIMMYT, Texcoco, EM, Mexico, Virginia H. Dale, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, Luis Fernando Ramirez, CIMMYT, Guatemala City, Guatemala and Sarah Eichler, Environmental Science & Design Research Initiative, Kent State University, Kent, OH

 

Patterns of canopy soil abundance and chemical structure across large gradients of precipitation and temperature in Costa Rica

Jessica G. Murray1, A. Peyton Smith2 and Bonnie G. Waring1, (1)Department of Biology, Utah State University, Logan, UT, (2)Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

 

Understanding the consequences of invasive grass species on various trophic levels of native rangelands

Morgan Frost, Biology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC and Sally E. Koerner, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina Greensboro, Greensboro, NC

 

Non-native earthworm effects in tandem with native earthworm presence on tallgrass prairie vegetation and microbial components

Yevgeniya D. Malyutina, Scott R. Loss and Gail W.T. Wilson, Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK

 

Above and belowground impacts of an invasive species vary across the landscape

Emily C. Farrer, Christina Birnbaum, Pawel Waryszak, Susannah R. Halbrook, Monica V Brady, Caitlin Bumby, Helena Candaele, Danielle Kulick, Sean F.H. Lee, Carolyn Schroeder, McKenzie Smith and William Wilber, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

 

Co-invasion of pine and ectomycorrhizal fungi drives loss of soil fungal diversity

Sarah J. Sapsford1, Angela Wakelin1, Duane A. Peltzer2 and Ian A. Dickie1, (1)School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, (2)Ecosystem Processes, Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research, Lincoln, New Zealand

 

Plant facilitation in quartz sands ecosystems

Enrique Gonzalez Sr., Researches, Ecovida, Pinar del Rio, Cuba

 

Effect of soil microbial inoculations on plant-pollinator interactions in a tallgrass prairie restoration

Gunner E. Davies and Tanya E. Cheeke, School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Richland, WA

 

Characterization of endophytic bacterial communities in congeneric temperate orchids with soil, host phenology and population size as the predictors

Jaspreet Kaur, Plant and soil science, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, Christoffer Bugge Harder, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX and Jyotsna Sharma, Plant and Soil Science Department, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

 

Belowground components of coastal dune grasses as drivers of species-specific erosional resistance

Shannon L. Walker, Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, Nick Cohn, USACE Field Research Facility, Duck, NC and Julie C. Zinnert, Department of Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

 

Rooting depth as a key woody functional trait in savannas

Yong Zhou1, Benjamin J. Wigley2, Madelon F. Case1, Corli Wigley-Coetsee3 and A. Carla Staver1, (1)Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, (2)School of Natural Resource Management, Nelson Mandela University, George, South Africa, (3)Scientific Services, South African National Parks, Skukuza, South Africa

 

Plants neighbors have species-specific effects on a focal plant’s root exudates and rhizosphere community composition

Tayler C. Ulbrich1, Albert Rivas-Ubach2, Lisa K. Tiemann3, Maren L. Friesen4 and Sarah E. Evans1, (1)W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, Department of Integrative Biology, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, MI, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, (3)Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, (4)Crop and Soil Sciences/Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA

 

Plant community nitrogen uptake rate is independent of fine root mass in established forests

Ray Dybzinski1, Meghan G. Midgley2, M. Luke McCormack2, Christine R Rollinson2, Ella Segal3, Annalise Nordgren4 and Rosemary Mascarenhas5, (1)Institute of Environmental Sustainability, Loyola University Chicago, IL, (2)Center for Tree Science, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL, (3)Rice University, Houston, TX, (4)DePaul University, Chicago, IL, (5)Schaumburg High School, Schaumburg, IL

 

Quantifying the contribution of belowground autotrophic processes on the belowground C sink in two agricultural crops proposed as potential sources of bioenergy

Ryan-Kelly Quinn, Marc-Andre Giasson, Ralina Karagenova, Rebecca Sprague and Adrien C. Finzi, Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA

 

Adaptive changes within rhizosphere microbial communities to historical watering conditions

Kevin D. Ricks, Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL and Anthony C. Yannarell, Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

 

Building a recovery clock: Tracking biological soil crust recovery following chronic physical and climate disturbance

Michala L. Phillips, Jayne Belnap, Robin Reibold, Armin Howell, Cara Lauria, Nick Melone and Sasha C. Reed, Southwest Biological Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Moab, UT

 

Experimental drought alters the fungal rhizobiomes of grasses across North American grasslands

Devon E. Lagueux1, Ari Jumpponen2, Andrea Porras-Alfaro3, Jose Herrera4, Y. Anny Chung5, Lauren E. Baur6, Melinda D. Smith7, Alan K. Knapp7, Scott L. Collins6, Scott L. Collins6 and Jennifer A. Rudgers8, (1)Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, TX, (2)Department of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, (3)Department of Biological Sciences, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL, (4)Provost, Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, NY, (5)Departments of Plant Biology and Plant Pathology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, (6)Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, (7)Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, (8)Sevilleta Long-Term Ecological Research Program, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

 

Nitrogen-mediated shifts in drivers of herbaceous layer communities in a Central Appalachian hardwood forest ecosystem

Frank S. Gilliam, Department of Biology, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL

 

Explaining the unexpected: Predicting an extreme nitrate loss event from a forested catchment

Linda H. Pardo, USDA Forest Service, Burlington, VT, John L. Campbell, Northern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Durham, NH, Mark B. Green, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, Timothy J. Fahey, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Nicholas A. LoRusso, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, Jaclyn H Matthes, Biological Sciences, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, Emma J. Rosi, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY and Pamela H. Templer, Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA

 

Chronic nitrogen deposition directly and indirectly alters soil organic matter formation in a temperate forest

Brooke A. Eastman1, Mary Beth Adams2 and William T. Peterjohn1, (1)Department of Biology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, (2)Northern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Morgantown, WV

 

Nitrogen saturation: Mechanisms controlling ecosystem N loss

Peter M. Homyak, Environmental Sciences, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA

 

Chronic nitrogen deposition does not alter microbial carbon use efficiency in AM and ECM soils, but reduces nitrogen use efficiency in both soils

Juan Pineiro1, Chansotheary Dang1, Steven Blazewicz2, Peter K. Weber3, Zachary Freedman1,4, Edward R. Brzostek5 and Ember M. Morrissey1, (1)Division of Plant and Soil Sciences, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, (2)Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, (3)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, (4)School of Natural Resources & Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, (5)Department of Biology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV

 

Organic nitrogen and ectomycorrhizal fungi mediate plant growth response to elevated CO2

Peter T. Pellitier, Inés Ibáñez and Donald R. Zak, School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

 

Direct nitrous oxide emissions contribute to discrepancies in top-down and bottom-up estimates

Nate C Lawrence1, Carlos G Tenesaca1, Andy VanLoocke2 and Steven J. Hall1, (1)Ecology, Evolution & Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, (2)Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA

 

Empirical support for declining soil respiration at higher temperatures

James W. Raich, Ecology, Evolution & Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA

 

Revealing the impacts of climate change on plant-available nutrients in mountains

Kenna E. Rewcastle1, Case M. Prager2, Nathan J. Sanders3 and Aimée T. Classen1, (1)Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, (2)The Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, København Ø, Denmark, (3)Gund Institute for Environment, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT

 

Variation in biotic resistance across abiotic niche space for an aggressive plant invader

Elizabeth H. Bouchard and Alden B. Griffith, Environmental Studies, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA

 

Land-use legacies shape invasion patterns in forests with histories of agriculture, logging, and mining

Marion A. Holmes1, James Whitacre2, Leland D. Bennion1, Jessica Poteet1 and Sara E. Kuebbing1, (1)Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, (2)Powdermill Nature Reserve, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Rector, PA

 

Agricultural land-use history and restoration impact soil microbial biodiversity

Nash E. Turley, University of Central Florida, Lars A. Brudvig, Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, Sarah E. Evans, W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, Department of Integrative Biology, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, MI and Lukas Bell-Dereske, Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

 

Effect of hydrologic export on soil carbon turnover rates

Oleksandra (Sasha) Hararuk, Biology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, Stuart E. Jones, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN and Christopher T. Solomon, Natural Resource Sciences & Group for Interuniversity Research in Limnology and Aquatic Environment (GRIL), McGill University & University of Montreal, Ste. Anne de Bellevue, QC, Canada

 

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

Yun Jiang, Department of Ecology, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

 

Soil organic matter and microbiological functions indicate rehabilitation of iron minelands in eastern Amazon

Sivio J. Ramos1, Markus Gastauer Sr.2, Cecílio F. Caldeira2, Rafael Guedes3, Pedro Walfir Souza-Filho3 and José Oswaldo Siqueira2, (1)Tecnologia Ambiental, Instituto Tecnologico Vale, Belém, Brazil, (2)Tecnologia Ambiental, ITV, Belém, Brazil, (3)Instituto Tecnologico Vale

 

Mapping the resistome: How environmental levels of antibiotic resistance vary geographically

Jane M. Lucas, Department of Soil & Water Systems, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID and Michael S Strickland, Soil and Water Systems, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID

 

Deconstructing termite mound construction: The effect of precipitation on termite mounds in Queensland, Australia

Rebecca A. Clement1, Habacuc Flores-Moreno2, Paul Eggleton3, Keith A. Crandall4 and Amy E. Zanne1, (1)Biological Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, (2)Biological Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, (3)Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom, (4)Computational Biology Institute, George Washington University, Washington, DC

 

Cover crop application increases corn yields when grown in dredged sediments

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

 

Do prairie strips mitigate the transport of manure associated antibiotic resistance genes in agroecosystems?

Jared S. Flater1, Laura M. Alt2, Adina C. Howe3, Michelle L. Soupir3 and Thomas B. Moorman4, (1)Agriculture and Biosystems Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, (2)Environmental Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, (3)Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, (4)National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment, USDA ARS, Ames, IA

 

Plant growth, nutrient cycling, and phylogenetic response of soil microbial communities to cyanobacterial biofertilizer in a bioenergy cropping system

Hannah Goemann, Microbiology & Immunology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, Brent Peyton, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, Rebecca C. Mueller, Thermal Biology Institute, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT and Justin Gay, Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT

 

Agroecosystem resilience is modified by management system via plant–soil feedbacks

Fabian Menalled1, Tim Seipel1 and Suzanne L. Ishaq2, (1)Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, (2)Eugene Pod, 500 Women Scientists, Eugene, OR

 

Quantifying the plant-microbial interactions controlling soil organic matter formation in bioenergy cropping systems

Joanna R. Ridgeway and Edward R. Brzostek, Department of Biology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV

 

Mycorrhizae drive soil organic matter composition in temperate forest ecosystems

Rebecca B. Abney, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, Matthew E. Craig, Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, Richard P. Phillips, Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN and Jonathan Raff, Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN; Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

 

Identifying the contribution of deep roots to subsoil organic carbon stocks under long-term switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) cultivation

Eric Slessarev1, Erin E. Nuccio2, Karis McFarlane3, Mary K. Firestone4 and Jennifer Pett-Ridge1, (1)Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, (2)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, (3)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, (4)University of California, Berkeley

 

How mycorrhizal associations effect the distribution of particulate and mineral-associated soil organic matter in temperate forests

Caitlin E. Hicks Pries, Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, Nina Wurzburger, Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA and Richard A. Lankau, Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

 

Long-term nutrient enrichment alters wetland plant-microbe associations

Regina Bledsoe, Aied Garcia, Daniya Stephens and Ariane L. Peralta, Department of Biology, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

 

Nutrient retention in the world above and the world beneath: Surface and groundwater denitrification create contrasting patterns at watershed scales

Emilee Lyn Severe, Isabella Errigo, Ben Abbott and Mary Proteau, Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

 

Extreme drought and grazing in grassland ecosystems on the Colorado Plateau

Tara B.B. Bishop1, David L. Hoover2, Sean Hoy-Skubik1 and Michael C. Duniway1, (1)Southwest Biological Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Moab, UT, (2)Rangeland Resources and Systems Research Unit, USDA-ARS, Fort Collins, CO

 

Manipulating microbes to enhance tree seedling survival in changing climates

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

 

Using dark diversity tools to predict microbial biogeographic patterns

Julia Chacón-Labella1, Eduardo Pérez-Valera2, Jose A. Navarro-Cano3, Miguel Verdú3 and Marta Goberna Estellés4, (1)Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, (2)Department of Soil microbiology, Biology Centre CAS, Branišovská, Czech Republic, (3)CIDE, CIDE-CSIC, Valencia, Spain, (4)Environmental Sciences, INIA, Madrid, Spain

 

Topographic and forest management effects on soil invertebrate community composition and functional groups

Gwendolyn Lloyd and Thomas O. Crist, Department of Biology, Miami University, Oxford, OH

 

Herbivory, but not trampling, decrease of soil aggregates stability in semi-arid grazing grassland ecosystem

Nan Liu, Yuqi Wei, Yue Pang and Yingjun Zhang, College of Grassland Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

 

Spatially heterogeneous forest structure buffers microclimate and impacts tree regeneration by species and life-stage

Edward M. Hill, Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, Jeffery B. Cannon, The Jones Center at Ichauway, Newton, GA, Seth Ex, Forest, Rangeland and Watershed Stewardship, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO and Miranda D. Redmond, Forest and Rangeland Stewardship, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

 

Exploring improved forest management as a natural climate solution

Lilli M. Kaarakka1, Meredith W. Cornett2 and Laura Dee1, (1)Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO, (2)Minnesota – North Dakota – South Dakota, The Nature Conservancy, Duluth, MN

 

A novel representation of biological nitrogen fixation in GFDL-LM4.1

Sian Kou-Giesbrecht1, Isabel Martinez Cano2, Sergey Malyshev2, Stephen W. Pacala2, Elena Shevliakova2 and Duncan N. L. Menge1, (1)Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, (2)Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

 

Temporally resolving historical carbon fluxes from the mangroves of Thailand

Jacob J. Bukoski, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, Angie Elwin, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, Richard A. MacKenzie, Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry, USDA Forest Service, Hilo, HI and Matthew D. Potts, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

 

Using fine-scale variation in ecosystem properties to detect peat collapse in the Florida Coastal Everglades

Lukas Lamb-Wotton1, Tiffany G. Troxler2, Stephen Davis3, Daniel Gann4, Sparkle Malone5, Paulo C. Olivas5, David Rudnick6 and Fred H. Sklar7, (1)Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL, (2)Southeast Environmental Research Center, Florida International University, Miami, FL, (3)Science Department, Everglades Foundation, Palmetto Bay, FL, (4)GIS and Remote Sensing Center, Florida International University, Miami, FL, (5)Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL, (6)Everglades National Park, (7)Everglades Systems Assessment Section, South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach, FL

 

Comparing biogeochemical legacies of fire and hydrology in short- and long-hydroperiod wetlands

Andrea Nocentini1, John S. Kominoski1, Jay P. Sah2 and Michael S. Ross2, (1)Department of Biological Sciences, Institute of Environment, Florida International University, Miami, FL, (2)Southeast Environmental Research Center, Florida International University, Miami, FL

 

Partitioning spatio-temporal variability in forecasts of the soil microbiome

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

 

Nutrients strengthen density dependence of per-capita growth and mortality rates across all major phyla of soil bacteria

Bram W. G. Stone1, Steven J. Blazewicz2, Benjamin J. Koch1,3, Paul Dijkstra1,3, Michaela Hayer1, Xiao-Jun Allen Liu1,4, Rebecca L. Mau5, Jennifer Pett-Ridge2, Egbert Schwartz1,3 and Bruce A. Hungate1,3, (1)Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, (2)Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, (3)Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, (4)Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, (5)Pathogen and Microbiome Institute, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ

 

When organic matter is the soil matrix: Challenges of using microbial explicit decomposition models in predominantly organic soils

Stefan Gerber, Soil and Water Sciences, University of Florida IFAS, Gainesville, FL and Debjani Sihi, Appalachian Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Frostburg, MD

 

Long-term effects of tree species composition on C and nutrient cycling in Alaskan boreal forest

Samantha N. Miller1, Xanthe J. Walker1, April M. Melvin2, Jill F. Johnstone3 and Michelle C. Mack1,4, (1)Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, (2)Private Researcher, Washington, DC, (3)Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, (4)Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ

 

High resolution organic matter stoichiometry reveals variability in metabolic controls over carbon destabilization and susceptibility to climate change in active peat

Emily B. Graham1, Montana Smith2, Sheryl L. Bell1, Allison Thompson1, David Hoyt2, Malak M. Tfaily3 and Kirsten S. Hofmockel1, (1)Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, (2)EMSL, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, (3)Soil, Water, and Environmental Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

 

Integrating evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by rising atmospheric CO2

Anthony P. Walker1, Martin G. De Kauwe2, Ana Bastos3, Soumaya Belmecheri4, Katerina Georgiou5, Ralph Keeling6, Sean M McMahon7, Belinda E. Medlyn8, David Moore9, Richard J. Norby1 and Sönke Zaehle10, (1)Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, (2)University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (3)Universitat Muenchen, (4)Laboratory of Tree Ring Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, (5)Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, (6)Scripps Inst. Oceanography/ UC San Diego, (7)Center for Tropical Forest Science-Forest Global Earth Observatory, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD, (8)Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Australia, (9)Environmental Research Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, (10)Department of Biogeochemical Systems, Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany

 

Species richness impacts total soil carbon more than 19 years of CO2 enrichment or soil nitrogen addition

Melissa A. Pastore, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, Sarah E. Hobbie, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, Kally Worm, Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN and Peter B. Reich, Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN; Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, University of Western Sydney, Penrith, Australia

 

Experimental effects of soil heterogeneity and aggregated seed arrival on plant community assembly

Esben L. Kjaer1, Gregory R. Houseman1, Bryan L. Foster2, Lauri Laanisto3 and Antonio J. Golubski4, (1)Biological Sciences, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, (2)Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, (3)Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia, (4)Biological Sciences, Delaware State University, Dover, DE

 

Phosphorus and AM fungal communities affect performance of blanketflower, Gaillardia aristata, across the northern Great Plains

Alison Long, Environmental & Conservation Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, Ylva Lekberg, Department of Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences, University of Montana and MPG Ranch, Missoula, MT, Deirdre Prischmann-Voldseth, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND and Laura Aldrich-Wolfe, Biology Department, Concordia College, Moorhead, MN

 

Evidence for soil phosphorus resource partitioning in a tropical rain forest tree community

Robert Müller, Institute of Environmental Science and Geography, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, Benjamin L. Turner, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama and Helmut Elsenbeer, Institut für Erd- und Umweltwissenschaften, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

 

Bison grazing effects soil microbial communities across Great Plains prairies

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

Welcome to the concrete fungal: Land-use impacts to soil-fungal communities

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

 

Freshwater forested wetland surprisingly resistant to large-scale salt and nutrient addition experiment

Emily A. Ury1, Steven M. Anderson2, Justin P. Wright1 and Emily S. Bernhardt1, (1)Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC, (2)Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

 

Exotic plant invasions are associated with decreased soil microbial carbon-use efficiency in semiarid grasslands

Morgan Luce McLeod, MPG Ranch, Missoula, MT, Megan K. Nasto, Utah Forest Institute, Department of Wildland Resources, Utah State University, Logan, UT, Lorinda Bullington, Molecular Ecology and Bioinformatics, MPG Ranch, Missoula, MT, Ylva Lekberg, Department of Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences, University of Montana and MPG Ranch, Missoula, MT and John M. Stark, Department of Biology, Utah State University, Logan, UT

 

Nitrogen availability modulates the impacts of plant invasion on the chemical composition of soil organic carbon

Ziliang Zhang, Vidya Suseela and Nishanth Tharayil, Dept. Plant & Environmental Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC

 

Invader legacies: Spatial and temporal development of Oncosiphon piluliferum soil legacies deferentially inhibit native forb performance

Stuart Schwab Jr., Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California – Riverside, Riverside, CA, G. Darrel Jenerette, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA and Loralee Larios, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California-Riverside, Riverside, CA

 

Community diversity and carbon footprint of soil nematodes along spatial and temporal precipitation gradients

André L.C. Franco1, Pingting Guan2,3, Shuyan Cui3, Cecilia M. de Tomasel1, Laureano A. Gherardi4, Osvaldo E. Sala5 and Diana H. Wall6, (1)Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, (2)School of Environment, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China, (3)Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China, (4)School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, (5)School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, (6)Department of Biology & School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

 

Nitrogen addition increase community-level N uptake from ammonium or nitrate by positive intraspecific variability in Tibetan alpine meadow

Li Zhang1, Shurong Zhou1 and Bill Shipley2, (1)Fudan University, Shanghai, China, (2)Biology, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada

 

Wild robots: Developing DIY technology to investigate soil carbon flux in a long-term, landscape-scale, large herbivore exclosure experiment in a central Kenya savanna

Elizabeth S. Forbes1, Kelly K. Caylor2, Mark E. Hirsch3, Joshua P. Schimel4, Truman P. Young5 and Hillary S. Young1, (1)Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, (2)Earth Research Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, CA, (3)Media Arts and Technology, University of California, Santa Barbara, (4)Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, (5)Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA

 

Reduction in microbial diversity decrease carbon use efficiency in soil

Chansotheary Dang and Ember M. Morrissey, Division of Plant and Soil Sciences, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV

 

The effect of volatile organic compounds and dissolved organic carbon on soil chemistry, and microbial communities

Steven G. McBride II1, Jane M. Lucas2, Ernest D. Osburn3, J. E. Barrett3 and Michael S Strickland4, (1)Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, Blacksburg, VA, (2)Biology, University of St. Thomas, Saint Paul, OK, (3)Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, (4)Soil and Water Systems, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID

 

Looking beyond leaves: Community composition and potential nutrient leaching from litterfall within an urban forest

Sophie Hill and Rebecca L. Hale, Biological Sciences, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID

 

Plant-mycorrhizal-decomposer interactions and their impacts on terrestrial biogeochemistry

Nahuel Policelli1, Colin Averill2, Edward R. Brzostek3, Hui-Ling Liao4, Ko-Hsuan Chen4, Ryan Tappero5, Joseph E. Carrara3, Corinne Vietorisz1, Jake Nash6, Rytas Vilgalys6 and Jennifer M. Bhatnagar1, (1)Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA, (2)Department of Environmental Systems Sciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich, MA, Switzerland, (3)Department of Biology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, (4)North Florida Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Quincy, FL, (5)Photon Sciences Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, (6)Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC

 

Assessing biological soil crust recovery from wildfires across the five deserts of North America

Cara Lauria1, Akasha Faist2, Rachel Hosna3, Ellie McCann3, Armin Howell1, Nick Melone1, Robin Reibold1, Jenny Shostrand4, Megan Starbuck5 and Sasha C. Reed1, (1)Southwest Biological Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Moab, UT, (2)Department Animal and Range Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, (3)Department of Animal and Range Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, (4)Southwest Biological Science Center, US Geological Survey, Moab, UT, (5)Southwestern Biological Science Center, US Geological Survey, Flagstaff, AZ

 

Post-fire recovery in ecosystem structure, function, and community composition in five North American deserts

Brandon E. McNellis1, Eva Strand2, Nick Melone3, Cara Lauria3, Armin Howell3, Robin Reibold3, Michala L. Phillips4, Pradip Saud5, Akasha Faist6 and Sasha C. Reed3, (1)Forest Range and Fire Science, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, (2)Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, (3)Southwest Biological Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Moab, UT, (4)Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, (5)Department of Animal and Range Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, (6)Department Animal and Range Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM

 

Understanding seedbank bias: How and why functional traits in the seedbank differ from the vegetation across a soil gradient

Julie E. Larson, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO and Katharine N. Suding, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

 

Soil bacterial traits mediate plant growth and plastic responses to drought

Lana G. Bolin and Jennifer A. Lau, Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

 

Evolutionary responses to artificial drought treatment in plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria

Christoph Z. Hahn1, George A. Airey2, Andrew P. Askew2, Steve Paterson3, Sophie Rustidge2, Emma J. Sayer4, Carly J. Stevens5 and Raj Whitlock2, (1)Institute of Integrative Biolgy, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, (2)Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, (3)Institute of Integrative Biology, Univeristy of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, (4)Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, United Kingdom, (5)Lancaster Environment Center, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

 

Quantifying the factors affecting wood decomposition across a tropical forest disturbance gradient

Gbadamassi G.O. Dossa1,2,3, Ekananda Paudel4, Douglas A. Schaefer5, Jiao-Lin Zhang6, Kunfang Cao7, Jianchu Xu3,8 and Rhett D. Harrison9, (1)Center of Plant Ecology, CAS-Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Menglun, China, (2)Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Menglun, China, (3)Centre for Mountain Ecosystem Studies, Kunming Institute of Botany, Kunming, China, (4)Nepal Academy of Science and Technology, Nepal, (5)Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia (KLPB), Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, (6)CAS-Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Menglun, China, (7)Ecophysiology and Evolution Group, State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-Bioresources, College of Forestry, Guangxi University, Nanning, China, (8)World Agroforestry Centre, East & Central Asia Regional Office, Kunming, Kunming, China, (9)East & Southern Africa Region, World Agroforestry Centre, Lusaka, Zambia

 

Wind disturbance impacts on nutrient cycling across tropical forests

Barbara Bomfim1, William H. McDowell2, Jess Zimmerman3, Anthony P. Walker4 and Lara M. Kueppers1, (1)Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, (2)Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, (3)Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, PR, (4)Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN

 

Distinct active and total bacterial and fungal communities are similarly affected by crop and soil type

Sarah Leichty1, Christopher P. Kasanke2, Sheryl L. Bell2 and Kirsten S. Hofmockel2, (1)Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland, WA, (2)Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA

 

Available phosphorus and nitrogen in canopy soils of old-growth Acer macrophyllum provide a nutrient reserve for adventitious roots and contribute to forest floor nutrient dynamics

Korena Mafune, Kristiina Vogt and Daniel Vogt, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

 

Ecological, topographic and climatic effects on soil carbon in interior Alaska

Sean M.P. Cahoon, Pacific Northwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Anchorage, AK and Andrew N. Gray, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, OR

 

Green roof mycorrhizal communities determined by plant host and inoculation

Paul Metzler, Environmental Science and Studies, DePaul Metzler, Chicago, IL, Kelly Ksiazek-Mikenas, Biology, Elmhurst University, Elmhurst, IL and Bala Chaudhary, Department of Environmental Science and Studies, DePaul University, Chicago, IL

 

Data informed adaptive management in agriculture

Paul Hegedus, Land Resources & Environmental Sciences, Montana State University and Bruce Maxwell, Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT

 

Data intensive adaptive management in organic agriculture

Sasha Loewen and Bruce D. Maxwell, Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT

 

Intercropping improves resource use efficiency, yield and resilience in agriculture

Wopke van der Werf, Centre for Crop Systems Analysis, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands

 

Improving soil quality: A time series comparison of agroecology and industrial agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean

Mauricio Betancourt, University of Oregon

 

Trait based approach of phosphorus cycling to unravel multispecies systems functioning

Nicolas Honvault1, David Houben1, Astrid Oberson2, Timothy McLaren2, Emmanuel Frossard2, Hans Lambers3 and Michel-Pierre Faucon1, (1)Agrosciences, Unilasalle, Beauvais, France, (2)Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich, Lindau (ZH), Switzerland, (3)School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

 

Rapid estimates of leaf litter chemistry and decomposition using reflectance spectroscopy

Shan Kothari1, Sarah E. Hobbie2 and Jeannine M. Cavender-Bares2, (1)Plant Biology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Saint Paul, MN, (2)Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN

 

Size-related decline in relative nitrogen access and demand by trees explained by ontogeny and soil nutrients

Palani R. Akana and Duncan N. L. Menge, Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY

 

Interactive global change impacts on Amazon biogeochemical cycles

Fiona M. Soper1, Kristofer R. Covey2, Sunitha Pangala3, Angelo Bernadino4, Zoe Pagliaro5, Luana Basso6, Henrique Cassol6, Phillip Fearnside7, Sidney Novoa8, Henrique Sawakuchi9, Thomas Lovejoy10, Jose Marengo11, Carlos Peres12, Paula Bernasconi13, Gabriella Nardoto14, Ismael Nobre15, Rita Mesquita16, Flavia Pinto17, Bruce Hoffman18, Carolina Freitas7, Ricardo Assis Mello19, Alexis Bahl20, Alexis Elmore20 and Jonathon Baillie20, (1)Biology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, (2)Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, (3)University of Lancaster, United Kingdom, (4)Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil, (5)Skidmore College, (6)National Institute for Space Research, Brazil, (7)Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Brazil, (8)Asociación para la Conservación de la Cuenca Amazónica, Peru, (9)Linköping University, Sweden, (10)George Mason University & Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, (11)Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação (CEMADEN), Brazil, (12)School Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, (13)Instituto Centro de Vida (ICV), Brazil, (14)Universidade de Brasília, Brazil, (15)Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil, (16)Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, Institute Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil, (17)The Nature Conservancy, Brazil, (18)The Amazon Conservation Team, Suriname, (19)WWF, Brazil, (20)National Geographic Society

 

Does species of slow bulk-soil nutrient cycling rely more on rhizosphere effect?

Lijuan Sun1, Yuki Tsujii2,3, Rui Li1 and Biao Zhu1, (1)Institute of Ecology, Peking University, Beijing, China, (2)Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, (3)Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University, Otsu, Japan

 

A novel method for reducing greenhouse gas emissions? Amending soils with organic C to stimulate N2O consumption

Emily R. Stuchiner1,2, Torrey J. Stephenson2, Zachary D. Weller3 and Joseph C. von Fischer1,2, (1)Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, (2)Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, (3)Department of Statistics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

 

Microbial control over soil carbon saturation

Matthew E. Craig1, Melanie A. Mayes2, Benjamin N. Sulman3 and Anthony P. Walker1, (1)Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, (2)Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, (3)Climate Change Science Institute and Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN

 

Nitrogen deposition and invasive herbivores alter mycorrhizal colonization and soil carbon in the developing ecosystem of Mount St. Helens

Rebecca Evans1, John Bishop1, Tanya E. Cheeke2 and Mailea Miller-Pierce1, (1)School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA, (2)School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Richland, WA

 

Digging into the soil associations of ground-nesting bees on farms in the Ottawa region, Canada

Cecile Antoine and Jessica Forrest, Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

 

Low temperature sensitivity of autotrophic and heterotrophic soil respiration components in tropical grasslands under warming

Eduardo A. Dias de Oliveira1, Carlos A Martinez y Huaman2, Michael P. Ricketts3 and Miquel A. Gonzalez-Meler1, (1)Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, (2)Department of Biology, University of Sao Paulo, Ribeirao-Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil, (3)Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago

 

Soil microbiomes from fallow agricultural fields improve the herbivore resistance of goldenrod… But what about crops?

Mia M Howard, Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Christian Muñoz, Human Ecology, 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

 

An evaluation of mycorrhizal responsiveness in plants native and non-native to the Palouse

Tanya E. Cheeke, School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Richland, WA

 

Soil native microbes for enhancing restoration of arid landscapes: Biotechnological and eco-engineering approaches

Miriam Muñoz-Rojas1,2,3, Nathali Machado de Lima1, Frederick Dadzie1, Todd E. Erickson2,3, Angela M. Chilton1, Jose R. Roman4, James Charlesworth1, Mark Ooi5 and David J. Merritt3, (1)Centre for Ecosystem Science, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia, (2)School of Biological Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia, (3)Kings Park Science, Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, Kings Park, Australia, (4)Agronomy Department, University of Almeria, Almeria, Spain, (5)Centre for Ecosystem Science, UNSW, Sydney, Australia

 

Earthworm assemblages in the urban landscape: A multi-city comparison

Katalin Szlavecz1, Dietrich Epp Schmidt2, Elisabeth Hornung3, Heikki Setala4, Ian D. Yesilonis5, Johan Kotze4, Miklos Dombos6, Richard V. Pouyat7, Sarel S. Cilliers8, Stephanie A. Yarwood2, Zsolt Toth6 and Csaba Csuzdi9, (1)Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, (2)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, (3)Szent István University, Budapest, Hungary, (4)University of Helsinki, Lahti, Finland, (5)USDA Forest Service, Baltimore, MD, (6)Institute for Soil Sciences and Agricultural Chemistry, Budapest, Hungary, (7)Emeritus, USDA Forest Service, (8)North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa, (9)Eszterházy Károly University, Eger, Hungary

 

Simulations of inorganic nitrogen dynamics and loss in topsoil at a watershed scale

Shen Yu, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen, China

 

Deepened snow cover alters grassland nitrogen cycling by modifying the balance between biotic and abiotic process during non-growing season

Zhou Jia, Ping Li and Lingli Liu, State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

 

Effects of plant-microbe interactions and management practices on soil carbon storage in biofuel crop systems

Stephanie M. Juice, Biology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, Kara E. Allen, Manaaki Whenua–Landcare Research, Lincoln, WV, New Zealand and Edward R. Brzostek, Department of Biology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV

 

Resiliency of the microbiome in grasslands: Can they recover after a long-term drought?

Leena L. Vilonen, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University, Melinda D. Smith, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO and Pankaj Trivedi, Colorado State University

 

Extreme precipitation interacts with N cycling in a semi-arid grassland

Courtney M. Currier, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ and Osvaldo E. Sala, School of Life Sciences, School of Sustainability, and Global Drylands Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

 

Pulsed emissions of nitric and nitrous oxide from dryland soils have distinct responses to nitrogen addition

Alexander Krichels, Center for Conservation Biology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, Pete M Homyak, Department of Environmental Science, University of California-Riverside, Riverside, CA, Hannah B. Shulman, Microbiology & Plant Pathology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, Stephanie Piper, University of Calidornia Riverside, Riverside, CA, James O. Sickman, Environmental Sciences, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA, Emma L. Aronson, University of California Riverside and G. Darrel Jenerette, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA

 

Modeling microbial functional diversity mitigates projected soil carbon loss in response to climate warming

Yang Song, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

 

Soil-vegetation dynamics during early natural regeneration in canopy gaps of a tropical rainforest

América Baleón-Sepúlveda1, Irene Sánchez-Gallen1, Mayra E. Gavito2 and Javier Álvarez-Sánchez1, (1)Ecology and Natural Resources, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico, (2)Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico

 

Understanding the soil nutrients that predict the species richness across a productivity gradient in a semi-arid grassland

Morodoluwa Akin-Fajiye, Amanda C. Schmidt and Lauchlan H. Fraser, Natural Resource Sciences, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC, Canada

 

Can root traits predict communities of soil nematodes in restored northern prairies?

Rafael Otfinowski and Victory Coffey, Biology, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

 

Linking fine-root traits in shallow soils to sap flow reductions in response to mild drought among 7 temperate tree species

Newton Tran1, Marvin Lo1, Meghan G. Midgley1, Christine R Rollinson1, Ray Dybzinski2 and M. Luke McCormack1, (1)Center for Tree Science, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL, (2)Institute of Environmental Sustainability, Loyola University Chicago, IL

 

Rooting profiles and biomass in surface soils linked to deep carbon stocks across fertility gradients in humid tropical lowland forests

Daniela F. Cusack1, Amanda Longhi Cordeiro1, Lee H. Dietterich1 and Benjamin L. Turner2, (1)Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, (2)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama

 

Tree seedling shade tolerance arises from interactions between light availability, soil-borne microbes, and plant defense/recovery traits

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

 

Exploring the plant microbiome: Using NGS technology to investigate the Puget Prairie plant endophyte community

Victoria G. J. Fox and Jonathan D. Bakker, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

 

Nitrate accumulation, nitrate sorption capacity, and anion exchange capacity in Oxisol soils across native forest to intensive cropping gradient in the southeast Amazon

Alexandra Huddell1, Christopher Neill2, Cheryl Palm3 and Duncan N. L. Menge1, (1)Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, (2)Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, (3)Institute for Sustainable Food Systems, University of Florida, FL

 

The complex effects of forest fragmentation and urbanization on soil respiration

Sarah M. Garvey1, Pamela H. Templer2, Erin A. Pierce2 and Lucy R. Hutyra1, (1)Department of Earth & Environment, Boston University, Boston, MA, (2)Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA

 

High Hg input from artisanal and small-scale gold mining disproportionally threatens intact forests in the Peruvian Amazon

Jacqueline R. Gerson1, William Pan2, Claudia Vega3, Luis Fernandez3, Natalie Szponar4, Bridget Bergquist4, Charles T. Driscoll5, Heileen Hsu-Kim2 and Emily S. Bernhardt1, (1)Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC, (2)Duke University, (3)CINCIA, (4)University of Toronto, (5)Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

 

Whole-profile soil carbon and nitrogen change after 25 years of differential agricultural management

Carolina Córdova1,2, Alexandra N. Kravchenko3 and G. Philip Robertson1,2,3, (1)Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, MI, (2)W. K. Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, MI, (3)Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

 

Global change in mountain grasslands: Effects on plant diversity and soil organic carbon

Antonio Rodríguez1, Rosa María Canals2, Josefina Plaixats3, Elena Albanell3, Haifa Debouk1, Jordi García-Pausas4, Leticia San Emeterio5, Juan José Jiménez6 and Maria-Teresa Sebastià7, (1)Department of Horticulture, Botany and Landscaping, University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain, (2)Universidad Pública de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, (3)Department of Animal and Food Sciences, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Cerdanyola, Spain, (4)Forest Sciences Centre of Catalonia (CTFC), Solsona, Spain, (5)Departamento de Agronomía, Biotecnología y Alimentación, Public University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, (6)ARAID/IPE-CSIC, Huesca, Spain, (7)Forest Technology Centre of Catalonia, Solsona, Spain

 

Response of microbial functional composition to long-term warming along a soil depth gradient

Qi Qi and Yunfeng Yang, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

 

Climate change may affect extinctions via altered plant-soil feedback

Karina M. Cortijo-Robles, University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras Campus, San Juan, PR and Meredith A. Zettlemoyer, Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, MI

 

From phenomenon to mechanism: Are plant-soil feedbacks maintaining coexistence in the sagebrush steppe?

Anny Chung, Departments of Plant Biology and Plant Pathology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, Thomas A. Monaco, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Logan, UT, J. Bret Taylor, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, Dubois, ID and Peter B. Adler, Department of Wildland Resources and the Ecology Center, Utah State University, Logan, UT

 

Okay microbes, now let’s get in formation: Assembly of bacteria from soil to amphibian skin

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

 

Microbial phosphorus immobilization slows soil phosphorus cycling in tropical secondary succession

Johann Puespoek1,2, Wolfgang Wanek2, Jefferson Hall3, Michiel van Breugel3,4 and Benjamin L. Turner5, (1)Environmental Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA, (2)Department of Microbiology & Ecosystem Science, University of Vienna, Austria, (3)Center for Tropical Forest Sciences, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama, (4)Yale-NUS College, Singapore, Singapore, (5)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama

 

Long-term drought increases soil dark-septate fungi and fungal community turnover, and alters biogeochemical processes in Amazon rain forest

Erika Buscardo, Faculty of Forest Sciences, University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Romulo C. Souza, Department of Plant Biology, University of Campinas, Patrick Meir, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland; Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, Jozsef Geml, Environmental Microbiome Research Group, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary; Eszterházy Károly University, Eger, Hungary, Antonio CL da Costa, Ecology and Earth Sciences Division, Emílio Goeldi Museum, Belém, Brazil and Laszlo Nagy, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil

 

Juniperus virginiana encroachment into Nebraska grasslands alters soil properties and microbial community with implications for invasion management in the Great Plains

Julie Fowler1, Shaokun Wang2, Rhae A Drijber3, Joshua R. Herr4, Dirac Twidwell3, Jeremy T. Hiller1, Ping Yue2, Anastasios Mazis1 and Tala Awada1, (1)School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, (2)Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, (3)Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, (4)Department of Plant Pathology, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Lincoln, NE

 

Fighting fungi with fungi: Can fungal endophytes help white pines defend against blister rust disease?

Emily A. Martin, Molecular Ecology, MPG Ranch, Missoula, MT, Beau G. Larkin, Forestry and Conservation, MPG Ranch, Missoula, MT and Lorinda Bullington, Molecular Ecology and Bioinformatics, MPG Ranch, Missoula, MT

 

Natural recovery patterns of biological soil crusts on the Colorado Plateau: The role of aeolian processes and overland flow in controlling microbial dispersal

Sierra Jech, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, Caroline A. Havrilla, Southwest Biological Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Flagstaff, AZ and Nichole N. Barger, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO

 

Plant-soil interactions and the efficacy of N-fixing species in restoration

Clarice M. Esch, Department of Forestry, Michigan State University and Stephanie G. Yelenik, Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Hawaii National Park, HI

 

Does increasing tree diversity restore multifunctionality in forests planted for carbon sequestration?

Kristin B. Hulvey1, Richard J. Hobbs2, Michael P. Perring3, Rachel J. Standish4, Lori Lach5, Rebecca Parsons6 and Tim Morald6, (1)Working Lands Conservation, Logan, UT, (2)School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia, (3)School of Plant Biology, University of Western Australia, Australia, (4)Environmental & Conservation Sciences, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia, (5)College of Marine and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia, (6)School of Plant Biology, M090, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia

 

Nitrogen inputs are quickly lost from a semiarid grassland on the Colorado Plateau

Brooke B. Osborne, Carla Roybal, Erika Geiger, Michala L. Phillips and Sasha Reed, Southwest Biological Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Moab, UT

 

Microbial diversity drives specialization in litter decomposition and metabolic products

Nanette C. Raczka1, Ember M. Morrissey2 and Edward R. Brzostek1, (1)Department of Biology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, (2)Division of Plant and Soil Sciences, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV

 

Harnessing taxon-specific microbial data to understand the temperature sensitivity of soil carbon cycling across biomes

Chao Wang1,2, Rebecca L. Mau3,4, Michaela Hayer3, Michelle C. Mack3,5, Jane C. Marks3,6, Sheryl L. Bell7, Samantha N. Miller3, Egbert Schwartz3,5, Paul Dijkstra5, Benjamin J. Koch3, Bram W. G. Stone3, Alicia M. Purcell3, Steven Blazewicz8, Kirsten S. Hofmockel7, Jeniffer Pett-Ridge8, Bruce A. Hungate5 and Ember M. Morrissey2, (1)State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Instituted of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China, (2)Division of Plant and Soil Sciences, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, (3)Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, (4)Pathogen and Microbiome Institute, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, (5)Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, (6)Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, (7)Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, (8)Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA

 

Prescribed fire alters ecosystem consequences of plant-soil feedbacks along a coastal elevation gradient

Julia A. Cherry1, Pamela Weisenhorn2, Lorae’ T. Simpson1, Mollie A. Nugent1 and Loretta L. Battaglia3, (1)Biological Sciences, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, (2)Biosciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, (3)Plant Biology & Center for Ecology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL

 

Differential recovery of soil microbial functional groups and ecosystem functions following cessation of chronic fertilization

Matthew A. Nieland, Priscilla Moley, Jaide H. Allenbrand, Janaye Hanschu and Lydia H. Zeglin, Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS

 

Moving beyond site-specific relationships to unifying links between microbial structure and ecosystem functions

Kusum Naithani1, Ayanna St. Rose2, Renee F. Sniegocki1 and Jessica B. Moon3, (1)University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, (2)Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, (3)Biology Department, Murray State University, Murray, KY

 

Do higher-quality plant tissue inputs promote organic matter accumulation more efficiently than lower-quality inputs? Insights from a dual-isotope pulse-chase experiment in subtropical pasture

Chris H. Wilson1, Michael S Strickland2, Jose Dubeux3, Lynn E. Sollenberger1, Stacy A. Smith1, Gabriel Maltais-Landry4 and Stefan Gerber5, (1)Agronomy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, (2)Soil and Water Systems, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, (3)Agronomy, University of Florida, FL, (4)Soil and Water Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, (5)Soil and Water Sciences, University of Florida IFAS, Gainesville, FL

 

Nitrogen inputs and losses following disturbance: A slippery slope

Jessie I. Motes1, Ernest D. Osburn2, Katherine J. Elliott3, Chelcy F. Miniat3, J. E. Barrett2 and Nina Wurzburger1, (1)Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, (2)Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, (3)USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, Otto, NC

 

Grass cover and soil microbes affect native plant reestablishment after fires

Christopher R. Warneke, Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; Program in Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, Stephanie G. Yelenik, Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Hawaii National Park, HI and Lars A. Brudvig, Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

 

The ubiquity of flammability: Fire drives predictable changes to fungal communities across pyrophilic ecosystems

Jacob R. Hopkins1,2, Tatiana Semenova-Nelsen1,2 and Benjamin A. Sikes1,2, (1)Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, (2)Kansas Biological Survey, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

 

Plant-soil feedbacks explain competitive success of exotic plants in mixed communities

Lauren P. Waller1, Warwick J. Allen2, Jonathan D. Tonkin2, Jason Tylianakis2 and Ian A. Dickie2, (1)The Bio-Protection Research Centre, Lincoln University, Lincoln, New Zealand, (2)School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

 

Contributed Posters

 Above and belowground community responses to infrequent compost applications in semi-native and improved pastures

Shelby C. McClelland, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO and Meagan Schipanski, Soil and Crop Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

 

The contribution of foliar fungi to agricultural soil microbiomes in an organic cropping system

Derek R. Newberger and Naupaka Zimmerman, Biology, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

 

Heterosis in the maize B73 x Mo17 cross depends on soil microbiota

Maggie Wagner1,2, Clara Tang3, Fernanda Salvato3, Kayla Clouse2, Alexandria Bartlett3, Shannon Sermons3,4, Mark Hoffmann3, Peter J. Balint-Kurti3,4 and Manuel Kleiner3, (1)Kansas Biological Survey, Lawrence, KS, (2)Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, (3)NCSU, (4)USDA-ARS, Raleigh, NC

 

Chemical and organic farming methods alter ant activity during the Michigan growing season

Stephanie Clark1, Jackson A Helms IV2, Jamie Smith1, Kathleen Knupp1 and Nick M. Haddad3, (1)Michigan State University – Kellogg Biological Station, (2)Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, MI, (3)Department of Integrative Biology, Michigan State University

 

Carbon and water use efficiencies under rainfed cropping practices in a semiarid region

Nicanor Z. Saliendra, Mark A. Liebig and David W. Archer, USDA ARS Northern Great Plains Research Laboratory, Mandan, ND

 

Sustainable land management in South Carolina: Implementing cover crops for increased ecosystem health

Lucas Clay, Department of Forestry and Environmental Conservation, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, J. Carl Ureta, Forestry and Environmental Conservation, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, Katharine Perkins, Forestry and Environmental Conservation, Clemson University and Marzieh Motallebi, Clemson University

 

Mixed cover crops on Mycorrhizal fungi

Yvonne N. Byrd, Life Science, Weatherford College, Weatherford, TX

 

Linking the host-plant ecotype and its associated rhizobiome to drought resistance in a dominant prairie grass Andropogon gerardii

Shiva Thapa1, Abigail Kamke1, Kaitlyn Ward1, Qinghong Ran1, Lauren Anderson1, Loretta Johnson2, Mathew Galliart2 and Sonny T M Lee1, (1)Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, (2)Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS

 

Rhizobiome diversity and its impact on drought resistance in dominant prairie grass big bluestem Andropogon gerardii

Abigail Kamke1, Shiva Thapa1, Qinghong Ran1, Kaitlyn Ward1, Lauren Anderson1, Matthew Galliart2, Loretta Johnson2 and Sonny T M Lee1, (1)Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, (2)Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS

 

Mycorrhizal drivers of non-native pest richness in US forests

Rachel T. Cook1, Samuel J. Ward1,2, Andrew M. Liebhold3 and Songlin Fei1, (1)Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, (2)Forestry & Natural Resources, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, (3)Northern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Morgantown, WV

 

The effects of ecosystem management on the nitrogen input in a system

Gina Profetto, Integrative Biology, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA and Jerome J. Howard, Biological Sciences, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA

 

 Understanding the role of brown lemming (Lemmus trimucronatus) activities in soil nutrient cycling

Austin N. Roy and Jennie R. McLaren, Biological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX

 

Increased precipitation variability alters the composition and function of the soil mycobiome

Nicolas L. Louw, Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, Laureano A. Gherardi, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, Osvaldo E. Sala, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ and Y. Anny Chung, Departments of Plant Biology and Plant Pathology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

 

Nitrogen demand shifts carbon belowground allocation, but not nutrient acquisition in cotton and soybean

Evan A. Perkowski1, Elizabeth F. Waring1,2 and Nicholas G. Smith1, (1)Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, (2)Department of Natural Sciences, Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, OK

 

Understanding the role of nitrogen fertilization on plant-microbe interactions

Eric Johnston1, Emilie Sidelinger2, Brittany Hicks3, Sara Jawdy4, Mindy Clark5, Dawn Klingeman5 and Melissa A. Cregger1, (1)Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, (2)Clemson University, (3)University of Michigan, (4)Plant Systems Biology Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, (5)Oak Ridge National Laboratory

 

Physiological implications of acid mediated nutrient stress on sugar maple (Acer saccharum) in the Adirondack Mountains of New York

Arianna Wills, FNRM, SUNY-ESF, Syracuse, NY, Gregory B. Lawrence, New York Water Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Troy, NY, Colin M. Beier, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York, Syracuse, NY and John E. Drake, Sustainable Resources Management, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY

 

The effects of high protein (IHP) and Illinois low protein (ILP) maize on the rhizosphere microbiome

Niuniu Ji, DOE Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, URBANA, IL and Angela D. Kent, Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

 

Seasonal shifts in soil carbon fractions in moist tropical forests of Panama

Lee H. Dietterich1,2, Benjamin L. Turner3, Jason Karpman4, Avishesh Neupane1 and Daniela F. Cusack2,5, (1)Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, (2)Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, (3)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama, (4)Geography, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, (5)Geography, University of California – Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

 

Increases in C3 grass biomass explain soil respiration trends across a gradient of nitrogen addition

Megan E. Wilcots, Katherine M. Schroeder, Eric W. Seabloom and Elizabeth T. Borer, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN

 

Common large scale importance of microbial anabolism and necromass to soil organic carbon

Chao Wang, Lingrui Qu and Edith Bai, State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Instituted of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China

 

Assessing the evidence basis for forest soil carbon accounting

Leehi Yona, School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Robert B. Jackson, Earth System Science, Woods Institute for the Environment, and Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Christopher B. Field, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Joseph Garner, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA and Katharine J Mach, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, FL

 

Not all soil carbon is made equal: Using meta-analytical techniques to understand differential effects of global environmental change on soil organic matter components

Katherine Rocci, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University, Jocelyn M. Lavallee, Natural Resource Ecology Lab, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO and M. Francesca Cotrufo, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

 

Effects of precipitation intensity, frequency and nitrogen on soil nitrous oxide (N2O) emission: Model simulations using the DNDC

Dafeng Hui1, Huiling Zhang2, Qi Deng1, Christopher W. Schadt3, Melanie A. Mayes4 and Deqiang Zhang2, (1)Department of Biological Sciences, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN, (2)South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, (3)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, (4)Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN

 

Effects of long-term, experimental drought and nitrogen addition on above and belowground carbon stocks in Mediterranean coastal sage scrub and grasslands

Nicole M. Fiore, Earth System Science, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA and Michael Goulden, Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA

 

Legacy effects of past climate affect responses of N cycling to current climate in tallgrass prairie

Caitlin M. Broderick and John M. Blair, Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS

 

Impact of long-term warming and wetting on carbon sequestration and nitrogen dynamics in High Arctic tundra soils

Malissa Ann G Tayo1, Cindy C Yanez1, Aubrey K Fine2, Claudia Czimczik3, Xiaomei Xu1, Sean M. Schaeffer4 and Jeffrey M. Welker5, (1)Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, (2)Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, (3)University of California, Irvine, (4)Department of Biosystems Engineering & Soil Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, (5)Ecology and Genetics Research Unit and UArctic, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

 

Effects of fire on soil NOx and N2O emissions in chaparral ecosystems

Elizah Stephens1, Aral Greene2, Karen Argumedo3, Nikki Shelton3, Heather Haro3, Alexander Krichels4, M. Fabiola Pulido-Chavez5, Loralee Larios6, Cassandra Zalman7, Sydney I. Glassman8 and Pete M Homyak9, (1)Environmental Science, University of California-Riverside, Riverside, CA, (2)Environmental Science, Univeristy of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, (3)University of California Riverside, (4)Center for Conservation Biology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, (5)Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of California-Riverside, Riverside, CA, (6)Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California-Riverside, Riverside, CA, (7)Schmid College of Science and Technology; Biological Sciences, Chapman University, Orange, CA, (8)Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, (9)Department of Environmental Science, University of California-Riverside, Riverside, CA

 

The responses of nutrient cycling dynamics to warming and the feedbacks to carbon cycling in peatland ecosystems

Xiaojuan Yang1, Dan M. Ricciuto1, Paul J. Hanson2, Colleen M. Iversen2, Richard J. Norby1, Verity G. Salmon1, Xiaoying Shi1 and Peter E. Thornton1, (1)Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, (2)Climate Change Science Institute and Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN

 

Impacts of drought and nitrogen on soil bacterial communities in a grassland ecosystem

Andie Nugent1, Steven D. Allison1 and Nicole M. Fiore2, (1)Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, (2)Earth System Science, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA

 

Systematic variations in the contribution of rainfall-driven soil respiration pulses to soil carbon cycling in North American deserts

Gregory E. Maurer, Jornada Basin LTER, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM

 

Dynamic bioavailable N in a deep unsaturated zone shows evidence of N cycling and plant and microbe use

Kelsey Crutchfield-Peters1, Alison Tune2, Daniella Rempe2 and Todd E. Dawson3, (1)Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, (2)Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, (3)Department of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

 

Depth profile of soil carbon and nitrogen accumulation over two decades in a prairie reconstruction experiment

Kaitlin M. Libbey and Daniel L. Hernandez, Biology, Carleton College, Northfield, MN

 

Abundance of comammox bacteria in an Adirondack soil system

Megan Demcevski, EFB, SUNY ESF, Syracuse, NY and Hyatt Green, Environmental and Forest Biology, SUNY ESF, Syracuse, NY

 

Soil microbial community responses to changes in rainfall variability across a monsoon season in a Chihuahuan Desert grassland

Renée F. Brown, Cristina D. Takacs-Vesbach and Scott L. Collins, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

 

Plant traits predict persistence of nutrient enrichment effects in arctic tundra

Chhaya M. Werner, Physiological Diversity, Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany, Maria Tuomi, Biology, University of Turku and Anu Eskelinen, Department of Physiological Diversity, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

 

The fate of biological soil crusts and their plant communities after fire: A meta-analysis

Brianne R Palmer, Plant Science, University of California, Davis, San Diego, CA; Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, Rebecca R. Hernandez, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA and David Lipson, Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA

 

Assessing the role of ecosystem nitrogen cycling in insect defoliation and tree recovery across multiple scales during a severe invasive insect outbreak

Emma Conrad-Rooney1, Jaclyn Hatala Matthes1, Audrey A. Barker Plotkin2 and Valerie Pasquarella3, (1)Biological Sciences, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, (2)Harvard Forest, Harvard University, Petersham, MA, (3)Earth & Environment, Boston University, Boston, MA

 

Soil microbial biomass and community structure response to variation in climate during restoration establishment year

Kathryn D. Eckhoff1, Drew A. Scott2 and Sara G. Baer1, (1)Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, (2)Plant Biology and Center for Ecology, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, IL

 

Wildfires in the Southern Appalachian Mountains increases soil microbial nutrient scavenging with burn severity

Megan Schill, Environmental Science and Ecology, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, Allison M. Veach, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Shawn Brown, Biology, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN and Richard Baird, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology, and Plant Pathology, Mississippi State University, Starksville, MS

 

Testing the fast-slow economic spectrum hypothesis in plant communities of the Atacama Desert located along rainfall and nutrient gradients: linking above- and below-ground functional traits

Francisco A. Squeo1,2,3, Danny E. Carvajal2,4, Cristian A. Delpiano1,2 and Andrea P. Loayza2,5, (1)Departamento de Biología, Universidad de La Serena, La Serena, Chile, (2)Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity (IEB), Chile, (3)Center for Advanced Studies in Arid Zones (CEAZA), Chile, (4)Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y Recursos Naturales, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile, (5)Instituto de Investigación Multidisciplinario en Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad de La Serena, La Serena, Chile

 

The impact of dominant prairie grasses and native soil inoculation on microbial metabolic diversity

Eliana M. Durnbaugh1, Daniel L. Hernández2 and Raka M. Mitra1, (1)Biology, Carleton College, Northfield, MN, (2)Department of Biology, Carleton College, Northfield, MN

 

Impacts of grazing on the structure and function of soil nematode communities in wet meadow rangelands

Rafael Otfinowski, Ryan Nykvist and Victory Coffey, Biology, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

 

Does chronic nitrogen fertilization affect tradeoffs between soil bacterial growth rate and growth efficiency?

Brett Nave1, Matthew Nieland2 and Lydia H. Zeglin1, (1)Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, (2)Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS

 

Understanding trait linkages of soil microbiomes and plant phenotypes

Kendall K. Beals, Joseph K. Bailey and Jennifer A. Schweitzer, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

 

Effect of extreme drought on arbuscular mycorrhizal root colonization and functional traits of two C4 dominant grasses

Smriti Pehim Limbu, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD and Meghan L. Avolio, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

 

Abiotic variables – not anthropogenic plastics – drive invertebrate abundance and diversity in urban soils

Annie Stoeth, Earth and Environmental Sciences, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY

 

Does nitrogen pollution lead to adaptation among forest decomposer fungi?

Nora Duncritts1, Shana Whitney2, Eric W. Morrison2, Serita D. Frey2 and Anne Pringle1, (1)Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, (2)Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH

 

Tracking fire recovery and plant-soil feedbacks in a watershed in Eastern Nevada, USA

Katherine K. Strain, NRES, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV and Erin Hanan, Natural Resources & Environmental Science, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV

 

Environmental heterogeneity increases resilience of a restored grassland to interannual variability in precipitation

Ashley A. Wojciechowski1, John M. Blair2, Scott L. Collins3 and Sara G. Baer1, (1)Kansas Biological Survey and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, (2)Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, (3)Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

 

Fire and grazing management affect root-associated fungal communities more than plant species identity

Nicholas Vega Anguiano, Biology, Kansas State University; Rangeland Science, Humboldt State University, Los Angeles, CA, Ari Jumpponen, Department of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS and Lydia H. Zeglin, Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS

 

Grazing and nitrogen deposition do not synergistically modify ecosystem C, N and P storages in typical steppe of the Loess Plateau

Lan Li and Fujiang Hou, State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-ecosystems, Key Laboratory of Grassland Livestock Industry Innovation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University

 

Eragrostis lehmanniana confers a benefit to Bouteloua gracilis through plant-soil feedback, but still outcompetes it

Sherri L. Buerdsell, Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, Brook Milligan, Department of Biology, New Mexico State University and Erik A. Lehnhoff, Department of Entomology, Plant Pathology, and Weed Science, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM

 

The role of mutualisms in driving species invasions: A global meta-analysis of legumes and their rhizobial associates

Kathryn J. Bloodworth, Biology Department, University of North Carolina Greensboro, Greensboro, NC and Kimberly J. Komatsu, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD

 

Legume response to microbial communities from grasslands varying in land-use history

Susan M. Magnoli1, Anna Larimer2 and James D. Bever1,3, (1)Kansas Biological Survey, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, (2)Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, (3)Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

 

The carbon dynamics of mutualism disruption: Invasive ants reduce carbon storage by East African acacia trees

Gabriella Mizell, Biology, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV, Todd M. Palmer, Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL and Elizabeth G. Pringle, Department of Biology, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV

 

Mycorrhizas can reduce negative environmental impacts of turfgrass management

Elizabeth A. Haymaker1, Adam B. Cobb2, Yanqi Q. Wu3 and Gail W.T. Wilson2, (1)Natural Resources Ecology & Mangement, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, (2)Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, (3)Plant and Soil, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK

 

Separating the effects of mycorrhizal status and litter chemistry on soil C and N stocks in a tropical montane forest

Georgia Seyfried, Plant Biology, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL and Wendy H. Yang, Departments of Plant Biology and Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

 

The cuisine or the community: Substrate quality and fungal community structure differentially affect soil microbial function along an EcM basal area gradient

Amelia Fitch1, Emily D. Whalen2, K. M. Geyer3 and Caitlin Hicks Pries1, (1)Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, (2)Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, (3)Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

 

Mycorrhizal community response to light and nitrogen conditions in a Costa Rican lowland tropical rainforest

Nikayla Ficano1, Lindsay McCulloch2 and Stephen Porder2, (1)Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Brown University, Providence, RI, (2)Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI

 

Mycorrhizal fungal response to elevated CO₂ concentrations in the Mojave desert

Jesse A. Goodfellow and Audrey Ellis, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ

 

Does the importance of nutrient limitation and pathogen damage on root growth depend on AM or ECM-dominance of forest plots?

Sara M Moledor1, Andrew C. Eagar2, Kurt A. Smemo3, Richard P. Phillips4 and Christopher B. Blackwood2, (1)Biological Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, OH, (2)Department of Biological Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, OH, (3)Environmental Studies and Sciences, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, (4)Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

 

AMF mutualism and parasitism across a nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization gradient

Veronica M. Briggs, Institute for the Environment and Sustainability and Department of Biology, Miami University, Oxford, OH, Jonathan T. Bauer, Miami University, Oxford, OH and Emily Grman, Biology Department, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI

 

Tri-trophic interactions alter above- and belowground switchgrass productivity and associated arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi growth

Matthew L. Reid1, Amanda L. Lietz2, Douglas A. Landis3 and Lisa K. Tiemann1, (1)Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, (2)Biological Sciences, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, MI, (3)Entomology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

 

Controls of corn stomatal closure point across ontogenic stages, generations, soil microbiomes

Kelsey R. Carter1, Dea Musa1, John Heneghan1, Emma Lathrop1, L. Turin Dickman1, John Dunbar2 and Sanna A. Sevanto1, (1)Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, (2)Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM

 

Exploring the influence of maize genotype and rhizosphere microbiome on herbivory-induced volatile organic compounds

Sierra S. Raglin1, Esther N. Ngumbi2 and Angela D. Kent1,3, (1)Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, (2)Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, (3)Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

 

Untamed genes: Structural, mechanistic, and functional impacts of teosinte loci on the rhizosphere microbiome of maize

Alonso Favela, Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, Martin O. Bohn, Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL and Angela D. Kent, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

Assessing the relationship between biological nitrification inhibition of field-grown sorghum and rhizosphere microbial communities

Sandra Simon1,2, Rachel Waltermire1,2, Mark Burnham2, D.K. Lee2,3, Evan H. DeLucia2,4, Wendy H. Yang2,4,5 and Angela D. Kent1,2, (1)Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, (2)DOE Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, (3)Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (4)Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, (5)Department of Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL

 

Differentiating bulk soil from tare soil effects on the potato (Solanum tuberosum) rhizosphere microbiome

Kayla D. Delventhal, Kenneth E. Frost and Posy E. Busby, Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

 

Long‐term optimization of crop yield while concurrently improving soil quality

Junxiao PAN1,2, Zhenling Cui2 and Shuli Niu3, (1)Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China, (2)China Agricultural University, BEIJING, China, (3)Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

 

Disturbance intensity affects the distribution of soil bacterial, fungal and animal community differently in adjacent native forest and agricultural soils

Tiehang Wu, Michael Sabula and Holli Milner, Department of Biology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA

 

A model of soil subsidence for a subtropical drained peatland

Andres F. Rodriguez1, Stefan Gerber2 and Samira H. Daroub1,3, (1)Everglades Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Belle Glade, FL, (2)Soil and Water Sciences, University of Florida IFAS, Gainesville, FL, (3)Soil and Water Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

 

Response of two pheretimoid earthworms, Amynthas tokioensis and Amynthas agrestis to different litter types

Bradley M. Herrick and Marie R. Johnston, Arboretum, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison, WI

 

Impacts of changing land use on soil bacterial and fungal communities

Matthew Gacura, Ariana Mayher, Mike Ganger and Russell Minton, Biology Department, Gannon University, Erie, PA

 

Fungal community relation to soil carbon stocks across tropical forest succession

Emily J. Diaz-Vallejo, Geography, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison, WI and Erika Marin-Spiotta, Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

 

Comparison of soil moisture measurements from various spatial scales for an agricultural ecosystem

Sungsik Cho1,2, Minseok Kang2, Sung-Won Choi2, Jongho Kim2, Juhan Park2 and Seungwon Sohn2, (1)Interdiciplinary Program in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)National Center for AgroMeteorology, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South)

 

Understanding the role of methoxylated aromatic compounds in methanogenesis from peatland ecosystems

Rachel N. Andrews1,2, Eric R. Johnston2,3 and Christopher W. Schadt2,3,4, (1)Roane State Community College, Harriman, TN, (2)Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, (3)Climate Change Sciences Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, (4)Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

 

Soil origin and ecotypic variation determine plant–soil feedback of a keystone species in longleaf pine savannas of the southeastern U.S.A.

Carolina Baruzzi1, Cesar Zamora1, Jessica Hong1, Claudia Stein2 and Raelene M. Crandall1, (1)School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, (2)Department of Biology and Environmental Sciences, Auburn University in Montgomery, Montgomery, AL

 

Soil carbon in ponderosa pine forest following three prescribed fires 1998-present

Robert L. Sanford Jr., School of Earth and Sustainability, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ

 

Drying effects on root dynamics in tropical forest soils

Amanda Cordeiro1, Lee H. Dietterich1, Benjamin L. Turner2, S. Joseph Wright3 and Daniela F. Cusack1, (1)Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, (2)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama, (3)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama

 

Rhizobia nodulation delays seedling establishment in wild indigo (Baptisa: Fabaceae) and reduces performance of adapted herbivores

Monica Velasco, California Baptist University, Riverside, CA and Rebecca E. Forkner, Department of Biology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

 

Nutrient additions have direct and indirect effects on biocrust biomass in a long-term Chihuahuan Desert grassland experiment

Lauren M Baldarelli1, Heather L. Throop2, Scott L. Collins3 and David Ward1, (1)Biological Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, OH, (2)School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, (3)Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

 

Alleviation of light competition increases species richness and ecosystem carbon sequestration under nitrogen enrichment

Fangfang Ma1,2 and Shuli Niu1,2, (1)Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

 

Tracking soil carbon processes with stable and radioactive carbon isotopes in temperate forest

Kaibo Wang, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Science and Weiyu Shi, Chongqing Engineering Research Center for Remote Sensing Big Data Application, Southwest University

 

Earth’s natural fertilizer: Foliar uptake of insoluble phosphorus from desert dust stimulate plant growth

Sudeep Tiwari1,2, Ran Erel2 and Avner Gross1, (1)The Department of Geograpy, Ben Gurion University, Israel, (2)Gilat Reaserch Center, Israel

 

Resource stoichiometry drives changes in dissolved organic matter production by heterotrophic bacteria

Seth K. Thompson, Biology Teaching and Learning, University of Minnesota- Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN and James B. Cotner, Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, St. Paul, MN

 

Increased crop rotational diversity influences bioavailable N cycling

Lauren C. Breza1, Maria Mooshammer2, Timothy M. Bowles3, Virginia L. Jin4, Marty Schmer4 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)Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, (4)Agroecosystem Management Research Unit, USDA-ARS, Lincoln, NE

 

Ecology for the greater good: Applying biogeochemical theory and practice to climate change mitigation

Whendee L. Silver, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA, Allegra Mayer, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA and Tibisay Perez, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

 

Investigating the formation and transformation of iron monosulfides in soils

Chelsea E. Duball and Karen Vaughan, Ecosystem Science and Management, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY

 

Differential responses to drought and post-drought conditions by three conifer species: The effects of water and nitrogen availability

Yuriko Yano, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT and Jia Hu, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

 

Soil nutrient availability affects growth and recruitment of saplings of six northern hardwood species

Dainel S. Hong, GPES, SUNY ESF, Syracuse, NY and Ruth D. Yanai, Sustainable Resources Management, SUNY-ESF, Syracuse, NY

 

Effects of plant neighborhood on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal attributes in afforested zones

Min M. Sheng and Xuedong X. Chen, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, China

 

Soil microbiome and the American chestnut

Sarah Andrews, Geoffrey Eger and Paula C. Jackson, Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA

 

Decomposition rate changes at forest ecotones as a function of leaf chemistry and microbial community composition

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

 

The impact of variable versus constant winter snow cover on maple leaf litter decomposition

Abbey R. Yatsko and Marc Goebel, Natural Resources, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

 

Presence of manganese(II) confers growth benefit to litter-degrading Ascomycete fungi on recalcitrant, but not labile, carbon sources

Ethan Lynch and Carolyn A. Zeiner, Department of Biology, University of St. Thomas, Saint Paul, MN

 

Homogenisation of soil microbial functions along a gradient of agro-pastoral land-use

Shamik Roy and Sumanta Bagchi, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

 

Disturbance decreases soil microbial diversity and litter decomposition in tropical montane forests of Malaysian Borneo

Renee F. Sniegocki1, Jessica B. Moon2,3, Abigail Rutrough4, Jude Gireneus5, Jaya S. S. Seelan5, David Weindorf4, Michael Farmer4 and Kusum J. Naithani1, (1)University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, (2)Murray State University, Murray, KY, (3)Biology Department, Murray State University, Murray, KY, (4)Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, (5)Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia

 

Carbon storage and stabilization in boreal forest soils: A tool for fighting climate change

Veronique Rouleau1,2, Christine Martineau2, Jeanette Whitaker3, Jerome Laganiere2, David Paré2, Armand Séguin2 and Evelyne Thiffault1, (1)Renewable Materials Research Centre, Department of Wood and Forest Sciences, Laval University, Québec, QC, Canada, (2)Laurentian Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada, Québec, QC, Canada, (3)Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Lancaster, United Kingdom

 

Management history and carbon density in a central Adirondack forest

Ry Patton, John E. Drake and Diane Kiernan, Sustainable Resources Management, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY

 

Assessing rangeland management practices and ecosystem services

Sheila M. Cloud and Kevin Wilcox, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY

 

Consequences of climate change, land management, and disturbances on the carbon sink potential of Pacific Northwest forests

Kristina J. Bartowitz1, Michael Case2 and Tara Hudiburg1, (1)Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, (2)The Nature Conservancy, Seattle, WA

 

Experimentally reduced snowcover decreases soil respiration in an oak-pine forest

Gregory Zogg, Biology, University of New England, Biddeford, ME and Elliott Boardman, Environmental Studies, University of New England, Biddeord, ME

 

Intraspecific variation in plant-microbe interactions

Scott J. Meiners1, Bryan S. Foster II2, Brendan B. Haile1, Justin T. Campnell3, Tom Canam4 and Marci J. Gallagher3, (1)Biological Sciences, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL, (2)Biological Sciences, Eastern Illinois University, charleston, IL, (3)Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL, (4)Department of Biological Sciences, Eastern Illinois University

 

Foliar pathogens and drought alter the strength and direction of plant-soil feedbacks in two herbaceous plants

Rhiannon C. Vargas1, Mahal J. Bugay1, Claudia Stein2, Gautam Dantas3, Rachel M. Penczykowski4 and Scott A. Mangan4, (1)Evolution, Ecology, and Population Biology program, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, (2)Department of Biology and Environmental Sciences, Auburn University at Montgomery, Montgomery, AL, (3)Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, (4)Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO

 

Soil nutrients and plant functional traits mediate plant-fungi associations

Lei Chen, State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

 

Soils Data Harmonization (SoDaH): A framework and tools for harmonizing and aggregating cross-study soil organic matter data

Stevan R. Earl, Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, Will R. Wieder, INSTAAR, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO and Derek N. Pierson, Department of Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

 

Effects of grazing and nitrogen deposition on soil methane and nitrous oxide: A 6-year experimental evidence from typical grassland

Fujiang Hou, State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-ecosystems, Key Laboratory of Grassland Livestock Industry Innovation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730020, China, Zhen Wang, Lanzhou University, China, Xiumin Zhang, Lanzhou University and Mengyuan Wang, Ulster University

 

How do soil temperature and moisture regulate N2O flux from an urban lawn?

Liukang Xu, Kristen Minish and Derek Trutna, LI-COR Biosciences, Lincoln, NE

 

Use a new soil biogeochemical model to understand carbon responses to whole soil profile warming

Zhou Lyu, EESA, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, William J. Riley, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, Jinyun Tang, Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, Rose Zheng Abramoff, Le Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, Paris, France, Jennifer L. Soong, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, Cristina Castanha, Earth Science, Berkeley Lab, Berkeley, CA and Margaret S. Torn, Energy and Resources Group, University of California, Berkeley, CA

 

Effects of switchgrass cultivation on deep soil carbon stock and long-term carbon dynamics in marginal lands

Jialiang Kuang, 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

 

Influence of microbial surface litter decomposer communities on CO2 emissions from natural soils

John Heneghan1, Sanna Sevanto1, Rae DeVan2, Brent D. Newman1, M. Francesca Cotrufo3, George Perkins1, Michaeline Nelson Albright2 and John Dunbar2, (1)Earth and Environmental Science Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, (2)Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, (3)Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

 

Species and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi effects on accumulation of soil carbon and nitrogen in a forest biodiversity experiment

Rebekah L.A. Bryant, Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve, University of Minnesota, East Bethel, MN, Grace Neumiller, Environmental Science, Colby College, Waterville, ME, Stephanie Curran, Biology, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, Charlotte Nash, Environmental Studies, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME and Craig R. See, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN

 

Experimental evidence for tree species, but not ectomycorrhizal effects on soil aggregate pools

Grace Neumiller, Environmental Science, Colby College, Waterville, ME, Rebekah L.A. Bryant, Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve, University of Minnesota, East Bethel, MN, Stephanie Curran, Biology, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, Charlotte Nash, Environmental Studies, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME and Craig R. See, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN

 

A first look at the fungal community of the world’s most massive organism – An ancient aspen clone

Jake Nash1, Karen E. Mock2, Nicholas C. Dove3, Christopher W. Schadt3 and Rytas Vilgalys1, (1)Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC, (2)The Ecology Center, Utah State University, Logan, UT, (3)Oak Ridge National Laboratory

 

Respiration and fungal necromass decomposition in two contrasting mycorrhizal hyphospheres

Hanan Cabdi Farah, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN and Craig R. See, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN

 

Soil microbial community shift and its edaphic control across US

Olivia Jean Yang, Canyon Crest Academy, San Diego, CA, Liyuan He, Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA and Xiaofeng Xu, Biology, San Diego State University, SAN DIEGO, CA

 

How soil respiration changes over seasons and across depths in response to long term soil warming and nitrogen addition

Genevieve Goebel1, Serita D. Frey2, Melissa A. Knorr3 and Caitlin Hicks Pries1, (1)Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, (2)Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, (3)Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH

 

Long-term warming accelerates soil carbon degradation in the temperate grassland by increasing the functional diversity and abundance of active bacteria

Xuanyu Tao, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, Jiajie Feng, Institute for Environmental Genomics and Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, Yunfeng Yang, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China and 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

 

Elevation-dependent soil organic carbon dynamics under future climate change in a semiarid alpine region, Northwest China

Meng Zhu, Wei Liu, Qi Feng, Bing Jia and Chengqi Zhang, Key Laboratory of Ecohydrology of Inland River Basin, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China

 

Influence of grazing and nitrogen addition on the spatial variability of soil microbial community structure and enzymatic activities

Chengliang Wang, Baoku Shi and Wei Sun, Institute of Grassland Science, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China

 

Responses of biocrust and root-associated microbial communities to water and nitrogen additions in a semiarid grassland

Catherine Cort1, Vanessa Fernandes2, Mariah Patton3, Eva Stricker4, Jennifer A. Rudgers5 and Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi1, (1)Biological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, (2)School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, (3)Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, (4)Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, (5)Sevilleta Long-Term Ecological Research Program, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

 

Soil heterogeneity dictates the microbial species-time-area relationship during the conversion of marginal lands into biofuel crop (switchgrass, Panicum virgatum L.)

Colin Bates1, Jialiang Kuang2, Arthur Escalas3, Lauren Hale4, Yuan Wang5, Don Herman6, Ying Fu7, Renmao Tian8, Liyou Wu4, Jeniffer Pett-Ridge9, Malay Saha10, Kelly Craven11, Mary K. Firestone12 and Jizhong Zhou2, (1)Institute of Environmental Genomics, University of Oklahoma, (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)University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France, (4)Institute for Environmental Genomics and Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, (5)The Noble Research Institute, Ardmore, OK, (6)Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, (7)Plant and Microbiology, The University of Oklahoma, NORMAN, OK, (8)The University of Oklahoma, The Institute of Environmental Genomics, NORMAN, OK, (9)Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, (10)Forage Improvement Division, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, OK, (11)Plant Biology Division, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, OK, (12)University of California, Berkeley

 

Soil-geomorphic properties mediate plant community resilience to land use and drying climate on the Colorado Plateau

Anna C. Knight1, Michael C. Duniway1, John B. Bradford2, Seth M. Munson2, Travis W. Nauman1, Christopher Benson1, Dana L. Witwicki3, Matthew W. Van Scoyoc4 and Terry Fisk4, (1)Southwest Biological Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Moab, UT, (2)Southwest Biological Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Flagstaff, AZ, (3)Northern Colorado Plateau Network, Inventory and Monitoring, National Park Service, Moab, UT, (4)Southeast Utah Group, National Park Service, Moab, UT

 

Network architecture and community composition of root endophytes across an environmental gradient in the alpine tundra

Monica V Brady1, Clifton P. Bueno de Mesquita2, Dorota L. Porazinska3, Marko J. Spasojevic4, Jane G. Smith2, Steven K. Schmidt3, Katharine N. Suding2 and Emily C. Farrer1, (1)Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, (2)Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, (3)Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, (4)Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA

What factors best predict the diversity and composition of mycorrhizal fungi across the eastern temperate forests of the United States?

Kathleen Thompson, Botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

 

Fungal succession after wildfire reveals significant changes in fungal richness and composition

Fabiola Pulido-Chavez1, James W. J. Randolph1, Aral C. Greene2, Sameer S. Saroa3, Cassandra Zalman4, Loralee Larios3, Pete M. Homyak2 and Sydney I. Glassman1, (1)Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of California-Riverside, Riverside, CA, (2)Environmental Science, University of California-Riverside, Riverside, CA, (3)Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California-Riverside, Riverside, CA, (4)Schmid College of Science and Technology; Biological Sciences, Chapman University, Orange, CA

 

Soil microbes from grasses affect the performance of later colonizing prairie plants

Anthony C. Yannarell, Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, Kevin D. Ricks, Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL and Alexandra N. Harmon-Threatt, University of Illinois

 

Soil microbial diversity and activity in a recently deglaciated landscape in Wyoming

Elizabeth Traver and Linda T.A. van Diepen, Program in Ecology and Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY

 

Effect of manure application on bacterial community in soil layers and leachate from varying management histories

Fernando Igne Rocha1, Thomas B. Moorman2, Michelle L. Soupir1 and Adina C. Howe1, (1)Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, (2)National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment, USDA ARS, Ames, IA

 

Mycorrhizal growth response and allocation in native shrubs help explain invader dominance

Alexander R. Ebert, Douglas A. Frank and Jason D. Fridley, Biology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

 

Do coastal reclaimed lands have deterministic soil microbial community assemblies?

Namjoo Heo, Agriculture Engineering Research Group, Rural Research Institute, Ansan, Korea, Republic of (South) and Seona Yun, biology, Sungkyunkwan university, Suwon, Korea, Republic of (South)

 

Changes in soil microbial communities following the vegetation restoration of degraded sandy grassland

Haiming Kan, Juying Wu, Tiejun Sun and Zhuo Pang, Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Science, Beijing, China

 

Tallgrass prairie plant responses to inoculation with native microbes: Implications for restoration success

Heath A. McDonald, Eric B. Duell, Adam B. Cobb and Gail W.T. Wilson, Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK

 

Working backwards: Enhancing forest restoration by reversing effects of reclamation on soil bulk density

Michael P. Back1, Anne J. Jefferson2, Catherine T. Ruhm2 and Christopher B. Blackwood3, (1)Biological Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, OH, (2)Geology, Kent State University, Kent, OH, (3)Department of Biological Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, OH

 

Amendments of lime and mycorrhizae improve first-year plant success in an experimental planting on abandoned coal mine overburden in Appalachia

Hannah K. Robart, Enviromental Studies Program, Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, PA and Jason S. Kilgore, Biology Department, Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, PA

 

Prairie legumes need soil microbes: a species specific approach to successful prairie restorations

Janae J. White, Biology, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI and Emily Grman, Biology Department, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI

 

Effects of soil amendments and crop varieties on evapotranspiration in an urban garden and potential for urban heat island mitigation

Gaston E. Small, Department of Biology, University of St. Thomas, Saint Paul, MN, Ivan Jimenez, University of St. Thomas, Saint Paul, MN, Michael Salzl, University of St. Thomas, MN and Paliza Shrestha, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, MN

 

Baltimore forest fragment soils: Changes in nutrients over 17 years

Ian Yesilonis, Earth and Planetary Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, Katalin Szlavecz, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, Yinhong Hu, State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Vincent Giorgio, Bureau of Water Supply, NYC Environmental Protection, New York, NY and Richard V. Pouyat, Emeritus, USDA Forest Service

 

Quantifying the trade-offs of native and non-native heavy metal hyperaccumulating weeds (Plantago spp.) and their influence on rhizospheric soil microarthropod communities in contaminated sites in Baltimore

Eric Yee, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, Meghan L. Avolio, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD and Katalin Szlavecz, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

 

Using biosolids and compost to restore urban soil function and improve conditions for tree establishment

Emily C. Keener, ENST, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD and Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

 

Latebreaking Posters

  

Bacterial communities of the Salvia lyrata rhizosphere explained by spatial structure and sampling grain

Jonathan Dickey, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, James A. Fordyce, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN and Sarah L. Lebeis, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

 

Contrasting drivers of soil and root microbial assembly in wetland systems

Susannah R. Halbrook1, Carolyn Schroeder1, Christina Birnbaum2, Monica V Brady1, Caitlin Bumby1, Danielle Kulick1, Helena Candaele1, Sean F.H. Lee1, McKenzie Smith1, Pawel Waryszak2, William Wilber1 and Emily C. Farrer1, (1)Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, (2)Blue Carbon Lab, Deakin University, Melboune, Australia

 

Drivers of soil functioning within riparian agroforestry buffers: A structural equation modelling approach

Serra-Willow Buchanan1, Tolulope Mafa-Attoye2, Kari E. Dunfield2, Naresh V Thevathasan2 and Marney E. Isaac1, (1)Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, ON, Canada, (2)School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

 

Forest floor manipulation effects on the relationship between aggregate stability and ectomycorrhizal fungi

David Dick1, Zakiya Leggett1, Terrence Gardner2, Josh Heitman2, Juan Frene2 and Eric B. Sucre3, (1)Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, (2)Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, (3)Western Timberlands, Weyerhaeuser Company, Springfield, OR

 

Contrasting responses of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to warming and precipitation alterations in semi-arid Loess Plateau and Tibetan alpine grasslands

Xinyu Xu1, Yunpeng Qiu1 and Shuijin Hu2, (1)College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China, (2)Department of Plant of Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

 

Response of soil microbial communities to plant diversity and drought

Philippa Tanford1, Christine Edwards2, Rachel M. Penczykowski1, Claudia Stein3 and Scott A. Mangan4, (1)Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, (2)Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO, (3)Department of Biology and Environmental Sciences, Auburn University at Montgomery, Montgomery, AL, (4)Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO

 

Impacts of forest harvest practices on soil health parameters 15-27 years following disturbance

Jordan H. Kersey and David D. Myrold, Department of Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

 

Soil nutrients and microbial communities on patch-burn grazing pastures in the northern Great Plains

Jonathan Spiess1, Caley K. Gasch2, Devan Allen McGranahan1 and Benjamin Geaumont3, (1)Range Science, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, (2)Soil Science, North Dakota State University, (3)Hettinger Research Extension Center

 

Dominant mycorrhizal type influences microbial community plant soil feedback in montane tropical forests

Joseph D. Edwards, Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, James W. Dalling, Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, Angela D. Kent, Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL and Wendy H. Yang, DOE Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

 

Amazonian forest canopy reflectance explains soil properties and understory species distribution and composition

Jasper Van doninck1,2, Mirkka M. Jones3, Gabriela Zuquim2, Kalle Ruokolainen2, Gabriel Moulatlet4, Anders Sirén2, Glenda Cárdenas2, Samuli Lehtonen2 and Hanna Tuomisto2, (1)Integrative Biology, Michigan State University, (2)University of Turku, (3)Dept. of Applied Physics, Aalto University, Finland, (4)IKIAM University, Tena, Ecuador

 

Use of microdialysis to assess short-term soil soluble N dynamics with biochar additions

Si Gao and Thomas H. DeLuca, College of Forestry and Conservation, University of Montana, Missoula, MT

 

Evaluating impacts of forest floor manipulation on soil carbon and nutrients in a loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) plantation

Zakiya Leggett1, David Dick1, Alison Plumley2 and Eric B. Sucre3, (1)Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, (2)Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, (3)Western Timberlands, Weyerhaeuser Company, Springfield, OR

 

A greenhouse study evaluating fiber quality and production of industrial hemp in loblolly pine soils

Tyrik Cooper, Forestry and Environmental Resources, NCSU, Raleigh, NC, Alison Plumley, Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC and Zakiya Leggett, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

 

Evaluation of various heterotrophic culture media differing in nutrient composition to isolate more diverse communities of soil bacteria

José A. Siles and Norman Terry, Department of Plant & Microbial Biology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

 

Root architectural traits determine cover-plant diversity effects on soil physicochemical heterogeneity

Rachana Pandit and Saleem Muhammad, Biological Sciences, Alabama State University, Montgomery, AL

 

The effects of mutualistic relationships with arbuscular mycorrhizae and rhizobial bacteria on ant defense and herbivore performance on Chamaecrista fasciculata

Ilana Zeitzer, Environmental Forest Biology, SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY, Thomas R. Horton, Environmental and Foresty Biology, State University of New York – College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY and Rebecca E. Forkner, Department of Biology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

 

In a field transplant experiment plant-soil feedback is widespread in temperate tree species regardless of light availability

Sarah McCarthy-Neumann1, Katherine E. A. Wood1, Richard K. Kobe1 and Ines Ibanez2, (1)Department of Forestry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, (2)University of Michigan