Oral Session #52: Carbon Storage in Ecosystems.

Presiding: R.F. Hughes, University of Colorado.
Tuesday, August 8, 2000
1:00 PM to 5:15 PM
Cottonwood Room III - Sports Event Center

1:00 PM	Carbon storage and flux in a salt marsh exposed to elevated CO2 . MARSH, A.S. , J.P. MEGONIGAL and B.G. DRAKE
1:15 PM	The effects of global change on belowground carbon storage: Under elevated CO2, increased N-deposition does not lead to increased C storage in a California grassland. SHAW, M.R. , M.S. TORN and C.B. FIELD, M. RILLIG, H.A. MOONEY
1:30 PM	Parent material controls over carbon and nitrogen storage in California. CASTANHA, C. , R. AMUNDSON
1:45 PM	Effects of experimentally excluding foliar fungal plant disease on a grassland ecosystem: linking belowground production and allocation to leaf longevity and photosynthetic capacity. MITCHELL, C.E.
2:00 PM	Factors controlling carbon accumulation in New Zealand secondary scrublands: Implications for the national carbon budget. SCOTT, N.A. , J.D. WHITE and C.M. TROTTER, D. WHITEHEAD, J.A. TOWNSEND
2:15 PM	Forest ecosystem carbon and nitrogen storage after agricultural abandonment. HOOKER, T.D. , J.E. COMPTON
2:30 PM	Nitrogen-fixing tropical trees sequester soil carbon. RESH, S.C. , D. BINKLEY
2:45 PM	Rates of aboveground biomass gain, and soil carbon accumulation and loss 60 years following tropical reforestation. SILVER, W.L. , A.E. LUGO and L.M. KUEPPERS, V. MATZEK
3:00 PM	Break
3:15 PM	Land-use history and carbon storage in forest ecosystems. CASPERSEN, J. , S. PACALA
3:30 PM	SOM dynamics and afforestation: Species affects and implications for global change. MORRIS, S.J. , S. HAILE-MARIAM and S. BOHM, J. SIX, K. PAUSTIAN, E.T. ELLIOTT, E. GREGORICH, E.A. PAUL
3:45 PM	Carbon storage and fluxes in ponderosa pine at different successional stages. LAW, B.E. , J. IRVINE and S. VAN TUYL, P.M ANTHONI, P. THORNTON, C.P. ANDERSEN
4:00 PM	Carbon budgets and net ecosystem productivity of two contrasting boreal black spruce ecosystems in central Saskatchewan. BISBEE, K. , T. GOWER and J. NORMAN
4:15 PM	Constructing standing carbon budgets for individual forests: Can forest inventory and analysis data provide a shortcut? HOOVER, C.M. , R.A. BIRDSEY and L.S. HEATH
4:30 PM	Carbon cycling on the edge. HOFFA, E.A. , M.E. HARMON
4:45 PM	Terrestrial carbon dynamics in North America from 1860 to 1992: Quantifying mechanisms responsible for carbon sink. TIAN, H. , J.M. MELILLO and D.W. KICKLIGHTER, A.D. MCGUIRE, B. MOORE III
5:00 PM	Carbon storage in the US 1895-1993. SCHIMEL, D. , H. TIAN and S. RUNNING, J. MELILLO, R. NEILSON, W. PARTON, D. OJIMA, T. KITTEL, M. SYKES, A.D. MCGUIRE