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Oral Session # 64: Plant Ecology V: Physiology and Function II.
Presiding: G North
Thursday, August 7. 8:00 AM to 11:30 AM, SITCC Meeting Room 102.

8:00 AM Kubiske, Mark*,1, McDonald, Evan1, Marquardt, Paula1, King, John2, Zak, Don3, Pregitzer, Kurt2, Holmes, Bill3, Karnosky, David2, 1 US Forest Service, Rhinelander, WI2 Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI3 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Does elevated CO2 alter growth allometry of northern tree species?

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8:15 AM Vile, Melanie*,1, Matson, Pamela2, Hedin, Lars1, 1 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton, NJ, USA2 Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford, CA, USA Thermodynamic controls on soil trace gas (CH4, CO2, N2O) fluxes from the Maui rainfall gradient.

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8:30 AM Funk, Jennifer*,1, Jones, Clive2, Lerdau, Manuel 1, Gray, Dennis1, Throop, Heather3, Hyatt, Laura4, 1 State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY2 Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY3 Beloit College, Beloit, WI4 Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ Variation in isorpene emission from Quercus rubra: sources, causes and consequences for estimating fluxes.

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8:45 AM Smith, James*,1, Hare, J Daniel1, 1 University of California - Riverside, Riverside, CA Gas exchange and water use efficiency of glandular and non-glandular trichome types in Datura wrightii (Solanaceae).

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9:00 AM Keller, Emily*,1, Anekonda, Thimmappa2, Smith, Bruce1, Hansen, Lee 1, St. Clair, J. Brad3, Criddle, Richard1, 1 Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah2 Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon3 USDA Forest Service, Corvallis, Oregon Stress and respiration traits differ among four geographically distinct Pinus ponderosa seed sources.

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9:15 AM Augspurger, Carol*,1, Cheeseman, John1, Salk, Carl1, 1 University of Illinois, Urbana, IL Potential for carbon gain by understory plants via phenological avoidance of canopy shade.

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9:30 AM Break.

9:45 AM Eissenstat, David*,1, Wang, Liqin1, 2, 1 Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA2 Shandong Agricultural University, Tian, Shandong, China Physiological responses of roots to pulses of nutrients.

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10:00 PM Spicer, Rachel*,1, Holbrook, Noel1, 1 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Effects of within-stem gas concentrations on sapwood physiology: Implications for sapwood aging and senescence.

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10:15 AM Breen, Amanda*,1, Richards, James1, 1 University of California, Davis, Davis, CA Water and nutrient limitations affect seed number, size, and quality: Implications for establishment of two desert shrubs.

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10:30 AM Dermody, Orla1, Long, Stephen1, DeLucia, Evan1, 1 University of Illinois, Urbana -Champaign, Illinois Canopy development of soybeans grown in elevated [CO2 ] and [O3].

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10:45 AM Leakey, Andrew*,1, Davey, Phillip2, Allen, Damian3, Rogers, Alistair4, DeLucia, Evan1, Drake, Bert5, Murthy, Ramesh6, Long, Steve1, 1 University of Illinois, Urbana, IL2 University of Essex, Colchester, Essex, UK3 BASF Plant Science, Research Triangle Park, NC4 Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY5 Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD6 Columbia University Biosphere 2, Oracle, AZ How will leaf respiration respond to growth under elevated [CO2] in three diverse tree canopies?

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