8:00 AM West, Jason^*,1, Dijkstra, Feike¹, Hobbie, Sarah¹, Reich, Peter¹, ¹ University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN Global change effects on microbial activity: The carbon connection and beyond.

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8:20 AM Higgins, Paul^*,1, ¹ University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA Biotic responses to land-use and climate change.

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8:40 AM Porazinska, Dorota^*,1, Pratt, Paul², Giblin-Davis, Robin¹, ¹ University of Florida, Fort Lauderdale, FL² United States Department of Agriculture, Fort Lauderdale, FL Plant-soil feedbacks as a mechanism of Melaleuca quinquenervia invasion in the Florida Everglades.

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9:00 AM Frey, Serita^*,1, Bouchard, Virginie², Gilbert, Janice², Reed, Sharon², ¹ University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA² Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA Relating plant and microbial community composition and diversity to wetland ecosystem processes.

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9:20 AM SCHMID, B.^*,1, DIMITRAKOPOULOS, P.², ¹ University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland² University of the Aegean, Mytilene, Greece Plant diversity effects increase with rooting space.

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9:50 AM Baxter, James¹, Dighton, John², ¹ California State Universtiy, Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, USA² Rutgers University Pinelands Field Station, New Lisbon, NJ, USA Response of Pinus rigida to an experimental ectomycorrhizal diversity gradient in unsterilized soils.

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10:10 AM Austin, Amy^*,1, Vivanco, Lucía¹, Fernández-Souto, Adriana¹, González-Polo, Marina¹, González-Arzac, Adelia¹, Araujo, Patricia¹, Sala, Osvaldo¹, ¹ University of Buenos Aires and IFEVA-CONICET, Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA Effects of aboveground biodiversity on belowground characteristics in natural ecosystems: Evidence from Patagonian forests.

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10:30 AM Brody, Alison^{*,1, 2}, Palmer, Todd^{2, 3}, ¹ University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA² Mpala Research Center, Nanyuki, Kenya³ University of California-Davis, Davis, California, USA The role of termites in biodiversity of East African savannas.

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10:50 AM Chen, Xin^{1, 2}, Louws, Frank¹, Shew, H. David¹, Tu, Cong¹, Hu, Shuijin^*,1, ¹ North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA² Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China High soil microbial diversity does not confer high resistance to invasion of a soilborne pathogen.

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11:10 AM Grace, James¹, ¹ USGS, Lafayette, LA A multivariate view of the relationship between plant diversity and community productivity.

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