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Oral Session #59: Soil Ecology: Microbial and Invertebrate.
Presiding: M. Rillig
Wednesday, August 7. 8:00 AM to 11:30 AM. Palo Verde Room, Radisson.

[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Broughton, Laura*,1, Gross, Katherine2, 1 The Ecosystems Center, Woods Hole, MA2 Kellogg Biological Station, Hickory Corners, MI. The role of plant species in the structure and function of soil microbial communities: an experimental evaluation.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Porazinska, Dorota*,1, Six, Johan1, Wall, Diana1, 1 Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO. Plant diversity and the soil environment.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Lussenhop, John*,1, 1 University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL. Soil microarthropod species number and species density increase along a productivity gradient.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Schwartz, Egbert*,1, Schuur, Edward2, 1 University of Denver, Denver, CO2 University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Microbial communities on a precipitation gradient: Links to soil redox and carbon cycling.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Carney, Karen*,1, Matson, Pamela1, 1 Stanford University, Stanford, CA. The relationship among plant communities, microbial communities, and carbon mineralization in a tropical soil.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] NIELSEN, CAROLINE*,1, MATSON, PAMELA1, 1 Stanford University, Stanford, CA. Differences in soil microbial community composition among forest, pasture, and Koa plantation in Hawaii.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Zimpfer, Jeff*,2, McCray Batzli, Janet1, Dawson, Jeffrey3, Huguet, Valerie4, Smyth, Charles3, Fernandez, Maria4, 2 Department of Biological Sceinces, Las Vegas, NV1 College of Natural Science, East Lansing, MI3 Natural Resources & Environmental Science, Urbana, IL4 Laboratoire d'Ecologie Microbienne, Lyon 1, France. Distribution and abundance of Frankia and three actinorhizal host species (Shepherdia canadensis, Alnus incana ssp. rugosa, and Myrica gale) over a dune- swale primary successional gradient in east-central Wisconsin.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Fierer, Noah*,1, Schimel, Joshua1, Holden, Patricia1, 1 University of California, Santa Barbara, CA. Soil is more than skin deep: Microbial community structure and C dynamics in a soil profile.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Wallenstein, Matt*,1,2, Schlesinger, William2, 1 Duke University, Durham, NC, United States2 Duke University, Durham, NC, United States. Effects of denitrifier community structure on N2O and N2 gas flux in a nitrogen fertilization experiment.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Bowker, Matthew*,1, Reed, Sasha2, Belnap, Jayne2, Phillips, Susan2, 1 Department of Biological Sciences, Flagstaff, AZ2 USGS-BRD, Canyonlands Field Station, Moab, UT. Temporal variation in community composition and pigmentation of desert cyanobacterial soil crusts.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] CARDON, ZOE*,1, LEWIS, LOUISE1, TYSER, DEBORAH1, 1 UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT, STORRS, CT. Chlororespiration in green algae isolated from desert crusts?

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Parsons, Andrew*,1, Barrett, John2, Virginia, Ross2, Wall, Diana1, 1 Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO2 Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. Responses of Antarctic dry valley soil biota and soil respiration to long-term carbon and climate manipulations.

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