8:00 AM: Pennings, Steven¹, ¹ University of Houston, Houston, TX, Physical forcing and variation in salt marsh plant productivity at multiple time scales.

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8:20 AM: Harmon, Mark^*,1, Johnson, Sherri², Bond, Barbara¹, Jones, Julia ³, Swanson, Frederick², O'Connell, Kari¹, ¹ Department of Forest Science, Corvallis, OR, USA² Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, OR, USA³ Department of Geosciences, Corvallis, OR, USA, Analysis of two temporal behaviors in a forested landscape: Mechanism and consequence.

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8:40 AM: Monger, H. Curtis^*,1, Kraimer, Rebecca¹, Serna-Perez, Alfonso², Herrick, Jeff³, ¹ New Mexico State University, Las Cruces² Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agricola y Pacuarias, Zacatecas, Mexico³ USDA-ARS Jornada Experimental Station, Las Cruces, New Mexico, Carbon in desert soils at multiple time scales.

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9:00 AM: Blair, John^*,1, Biggs, John², Collins, Scott³, Knapp, Alan⁴, ¹ Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS² Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ³ University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM⁴ Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, Linking short-term dynamics to long-term patterns and processes in grasslands.

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9:20 AM: Haines, Bruce^*,1, Scatena, Fred², Covich, Alan¹, Crowl, Todd³, Hall, Charles⁴, Zou , Xiaoming ⁵, ¹ The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA² University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA³ Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA⁴ SUNY College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry, Syracuse, NY, USA⁵ Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Studies, San Juan, PR, USA, Relative time scales of ecological processes in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico.

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9:50 AM: Kloeppel, Brian^*,1, Vose, James², Swank, Wayne², Riedel, Mark², ¹ University of Georgia, Otto, NC, USA² USDA Forest Service, Otto, NC, USA, Impact of insect outbreaks on watershed hydrologic dynamics based on a 70-year stream flow record in the southern Appalachian Mountains (Coweeta LTER).

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10:10 AM: Shaver, Gaius^*,1, Bowden, Breck², Peterson, Bruce¹, Hobbie, John¹, ¹ The Ecosystems Center, Woods Hole, MA, USA² University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA, Conceptual frameworks for interpretation of short- and long-term ecosystem change at Toolik Lake, Alaska.

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10:30 AM: Blum, Linda^*,1, Lowit, Michael^{*,1, 2}, ¹ University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA² USGS, Reston, VA, Temporal variation of bacterial community structure and ecosystem properties in two temperate estuaries.

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10:50 AM: Childers, Daniel^*,1, Boyer, Joseph², Davis, Stephen³, Madden, Christopher⁴, Rudnick, David, Sklar, Fred, ¹ Department of Biological Sciences & SERC, Miami, FL, United States² SERC, Miami, FL, United States³ Department of Wildlife & Fisheries Sciences, College Station, TX, United States⁴ Coastal Ecosystems Division, West Palm Beach, FL, United States, Relating precipitation and water management to nutrient concentrations in the oligotrophic upside-down estuaries of the Florida Everglades.

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