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PARENT SESSION
Symposium #5: Sustaining and restoring our soil.
Sponsored by ESA Soil Ecology Section
Organized by: S.M. Adl. and S. Morris.
Monday, August 6, 2001. 1:00 PM to 4:50 PM. Madison Ballroom A

1:00 PM Adl, Sina1, Morris, Sherri, 1 Introduction and welcome.

1:05 PM Stenberg, Bo1, 1 Microbiological indicators for monitoring changes in soil sustainability and quality.

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1:35 PM Neher, Deborah1, 1 Soil community composition and ecosystem processes.

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2:05 PM Adl, Sina1, Coleman, David1, 1 Consequences of Long-term conservation practise in trophic structure of agro-ecosystems.

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2:35 PM Break.

2:50 PM Allen, Michael1, Querejeta, Ignacio1, Egerton-Warburton, Louise1, Allen, Edith1, 1 Arbuscular mycorrhizae and restoration of disturbed soils: structure of hyphae and non-nutritional roles.

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3:10 PM Boerner, Ralph1, 1 Is prescribed fire effective in restoring eastern forest soils under heavy atmospheric N loading?

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3:40 PM Schlesinger, William1, 1 Changes in soil carbon stocks with land management and increasing atmospheric CO2.

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4:10 PM Smith, Pete1, 1 Approaches to modeling soil biota to predict the impacts of global change at the ecosystem level.

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4:40 PM Morris, Sherri, Synthesis and concluding comments.