Chairs: Jaclyn Hatala Matthes, Dartmouth College, Dept. Geography and Grad Program in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Hanover, NH, United States and David J Moore, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
Primary Conveners: Jaclyn Hatala Matthes, Dartmouth College, Dept. Geography and Grad Program in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Hanover, NH, United States
Co-conveners: David J Moore, University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States, Jingfeng Xiao, University of New Hampshire, Earth Systems Research Center, Durham, NH, United States and Shuguang Liu, USGS EROS, Sioux Falls, SD, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Jaclyn Hatala Matthes, Dartmouth College, Dept. Geography and Grad Program in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Hanover, NH, United States
Grazing alters the net C sink strength and the net global warming potential of a subtropical pasture
Nuria Gomez-Casanovas1,2, Nicholas DeLucia1, Evan H DeLucia1,3, Elizabeth H Boughton4, Earl Keel4 and Carl Bernacchi1,5, (1)Energy Biosciences Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States, (2)Institute of Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States, (3)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Plant Biology, Urbana, IL, United States, (4)MacArthur Agro-ecology Research Center, Archbold Biological Station, Lake Placid, FL, United States, (5)Global Change and Photosynthesis Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, Urbana, IL, United States
Altitudinal Contrasts in Drought-Driven Aeolian Microbial Inputs to Montane Soil Ecology: Impacts of a 500-Year Drought in the Sierra Nevada, California
Emma L Aronson1, Chelsea Carey1, Clifford S Riebe2, Sarah Aciego3 and Stephen C Hart4, (1)University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States, (2)University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States, (3)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States
Statistical Estimates of the Long-Term Impact of Land-Use Disturbance on Woody Biomass in the Midwest (USA)
Jason S McLachlan1, David J Moore2, Jun Zhu3, Xiaoping Feng3, Christopher J Paciorek4, John W Williams5, Simon J Goring6 and Kyle Alan Hartfield2, (1)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)University of Wisconsin Madison, Statistics, Madison, WI, United States, (4)University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States, (6)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States
Soil carbon cycle 13C responses in the decade following bark beetle and girdling disturbance
Gregory E Maurer1,2, Allison M Chan1, Nicole A Trahan3, David J Moore3 and David R Bowling1, (1)University of Utah, Biology, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (2)University of New Mexico Main Campus, Biology, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (3)University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States
Water Table and Soil Gas Emission Responses to Disturbance in Northern Forested Wetlands
Matthew J Van Grinsven1, Nicholas William Bolton1, Joseph Shannon1, Joshua Davis1, Joseph W. Wagenbrenner1, Stephen D Sebestyen2, Randy K Kolka2 and Thomas G Pypker1,3, (1)Michigan Technological University, School of Forest Resources and Environmental Sciences, Houghton, MI, United States, (2)USDA Forest Service, Grand Rapids, MN, United States, (3)Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC, Canada
Biological and Physical Drivers of Coarse Woody Debris Respiration Following Moderate Forest Disturbance
Amy Victoria Schmid1, Rima B Franklin1, Christoph S Vogel2, Eli Liebman3, Peter Curtis4 and Christopher Michael Gough5, (1)Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States, (2)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN, United States, (4)Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, (5)VCU-Biology, Richmond, VA, United States
Post-fire influences of snag attrition on albedo and radiative forcing
Thomas L O'Halloran1, Steven A Acker2, Verena Joerger1, Jane Kertis3 and Beverly Elizabeth Law4, (1)Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA, United States, (2)Willamette National Forest, Springfield, OR, United States, (3)Siuslaw National Forest, Corvallis, OR, United States, (4)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
Impacts of recent droughts on North American terrestrial ecosystems
Jingfeng Xiao1, Scott V Ollinger1, Feng Li1, Changsheng Li1, Steve E Frolking1, George C Hurtt2, Rossella Guerrieri1, Lucie C Lepine1 and Heidi Asbjornsen3, (1)University of New Hampshire, Earth Systems Research Center, Durham, NH, United States, (2)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
Creation of a Digital Surface Model and Extraction of Coarse Woody Debris from Terrestrial Laser Scans in an Open Eucalypt Woodland
Jasmine Muir1,2, Stuart R Phinn3, John Armston2,3, Peter Scarth2,3 and Teresa Eyre4, (1)University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia, (2)Department of Science Information Technology Innovation and the Arts, Remote Sensing Centre, Brisbane, Australia, (3)University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia, (4)Department of Science Information Technology Innovation and the Arts, Herbarium, Brisbane, Australia
Moderate forest disturbance as a stringent test for gap and big-leaf models
Ben P Bond-Lamberty, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Justin Fisk, University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, Jennifer A. Holm, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Vanessa L Bailey, Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland, WA, United States and Christopher Michael Gough, VCU-Biology, Richmond, VA, United States
Marginal Lands Gross Primary Production Dominate Atmospheric CO2 Interannual Variations
Anders Ahlström1, Michael R Raupach2, Guy Schurgers1, Almut Arneth3, Martin Jung4, Markus Reichstein4 and Ben Smith1, (1)Lund University, Lund, Sweden, (2)Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, (3)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, (4)Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
Effects of anthropogenic nitrogen input on the aquatic food webs of river ecosystem in central Japan
Nobuhito Ohte1, Hiroyuki Togashi2, Naoko Tokuchi3, Mayumi Yoshimura4, Yoshikazu Kato5, Naoto F Ishikawa6, Ken'ichi Osaka7, Michio Kondo8 and Ichiro Tayasu5, (1)University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, (2)Fisheries Research Agency, Tohoku National Fisheries Research Institute, Shiogama, Japan, (3)Kyoto University, Field Science Education Research Center, Kyoto, Japan, (4)Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Kansai Research Center, Kyoto, Japan, (5)Kyoto University, Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto, Japan, (6)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, (7)University of Shiga Prefec, Hikone, Japan, (8)Ryukoku University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Otsu, Japan
Distinct Benthic Community Trends Driven by Particle Transport and Deposition in Mid-Atlantic Bight Canyons, NW Atlantic
Amanda W Demopoulos1, Craig M. Robertson2, Jill R. Bourque3, Furu Mienis4, Gerard Duineveld4, Steve Ross5, Sandra Brooke6 and Andrew J Davies2, (1)USGS Southeast Ecological Science Center, Gainesville, FL, United States, (2)Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom, (3)Cherokee Nation Technology Solutions, Contracted to the USGS Southeast Ecological Science Center, Gainesville, FL, United States, (4)Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Burg, Netherlands, (5)University of North Carolina, Wilmington, Center for Marine Science, Wilmington, NC, United States, (6)Florida State University, Coastal and Marine Lab, St Teresa, FL, United States