Chairs: Jennifer Y King, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and Susan E Crow, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Natural Resources and Environmental Management, Honolulu, United States
Primary Convener: Kate Lajtha, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
Co-conveners: Marc G Kramer, University of Florida, Soil and Water Science Department, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, Jennifer Y King, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and Katherine A Heckman, USDA Forest Service, Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science, Vallejo, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison: Nancy Cavallaro, USDA/NIFA, Washington, DC, United States
Recalcitrance: An Inherent Relative Attribute of Plant Litter Describing Its Potential Decomposability (Invited) (3346)
M Francesca Cotrufo1,2, Sarah Fulton-Smith3, Michelle L Haddix4, Andrew J. Horton3 and Jennifer Soong5, (1)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States, (2)Colorado State University, Soil and Crop Sciences, Fort Collins, United States, (3)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (4)Colorado State University, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Fort Collins, United States, (5)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Science, Berkeley, CA, United States
Root Mediation of Soil Organic Matter Feedbacks to Climate Change (20459)
Elise Pendall1, Yolima Carrillo2, Ming Nie3, Yui Osanai2, Laura C. Nelson3, Jonathan Sanderman4, Jeff Baldock5 and Mark Joseph Hovenden6, (1)Western Sydney University, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Penrith, NSW, Australia, (2)University of Western Sydney, Penrith, NSW, Australia, (3)University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States, (4)Woods Hole Research Center, Woods Hole, United States, (5)CSIRO Land and Water, Glen Osmond, Australia, (6)University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
Gone or Just out of Sight? the Apparent Disappearance of Aromatic Litter Components in Soils (Invited) (3123)
Thimo Klotzbücher, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany, Karsten Kalbitz, University of Amsterdam, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Chiara Cerli, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Peter J Hernes, University of California - Davis, Davis, United States and Klaus Kaiser, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Soil Sciences, Halle, Germany
Interactions of landscape position, stream flow, and litter quality on litter decomposition in intermittent to ephemeral streams in the American Southwest (16598)
Kathleen A Lohse, Idaho State University, Department of Biological Sciences, Idaho Falls, ID, United States, Stacy Gayle Schwabedissen, Idaho State University, Biological Sciences, Pocatello, ID, United States, Charles L Devine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States and Thomas Meixner, University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States
Does elevated N make lignin more recalcitrant? (Invited) (4467)
Michael N Weintraub, University of Toledo, Department of Environmental Sciences, Toledo, OH, United States, Zachary L. Rinkes, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States, Stuart Grandy, University of New Hampshire, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, Durham, United States, Kyle Wickings, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States and Isabelle Bertrand, INRA Reims, Reims, France
