Poster # 155. Fissore, Cinzia^*,1, Giardina, Christian², ¹ School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, Houghton, MI, USA² USDA Forest Service North Central Research Station, Houghton, MI, USA, Effects of mean annual temperature and vegetation type on soil carbon quality in North American forests.

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Poster # 156. Mellor, Nathan^*,1, Hellerich, Jeff ², Drijber, Rhae ², Paul, Eldor^*,3, Morris, Sherri^*,1, ¹ Bradley University Biology Department, Peoria, IL² University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE³ Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, Carbon Dynamics Following Afforestation of Sandy, Native Prairie.

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Poster # 157. Wittenberg, Colleen^*,1, McConnaughay, Kelly¹, Paul, Eldor², Heaton, Emily ³, Morris, Sherri¹, ¹ Bradley University, Peoria, IL, USA² Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA³ University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA, Impact of vegetation on active fraction carbon pools.

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Poster # 158. Borden, Kara¹, BassiriRad, Hormoz¹, ¹ University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, Anthropogenic nitrogen deposition affects seasonal patterns of soil available nitrogen and distribution between organic and inorganic pools in oak-maple forests.

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Poster # 159. Borges, Ashlyn^*,1, Johnson, Keith¹, McConnaughay, Kelly¹, Paul, Eldor², Conant, Rich², Morris, Sherri¹, ¹ Bradley University, Peoria, IL, USA² Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA, Emiquon: Landscape scale differences in carbon and nitrogen dynamics following 80 years of agriculture.

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Poster # 160. Bradley, Kate^*,1, Drijber, Rhae², Knops, Jean¹, ¹ University of Nebraska, School of Biological Sciences, Lincoln, NE² University of Nebraska, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Lincoln, NE, Nitrogen fertilization triggers significant declines in AM fungal abundance-- A field study in ten weeks.

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Poster # 161. Brewer, Elizabeth¹, Morris, Sherri¹, Paul, Eldor², Robertson, G. ³, ¹ Bradley University, Peoria, IL, USA² Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA³ Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA, Relating nitrogen dynamics to carbon stabilization in calcium and nitrogen amended soils.

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Poster # 162. Gasser, Dodick¹, Lavoie, Martin², Messier, Christian¹, Mauffette, Yves¹, ¹ Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Qc, Canada² Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Rouyn-Noranda, Qc, Canada, Rhizodeposition, N cycling and growth of sugar maple and yellow birch seedlings.

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Poster # 163. Gustafsson, Maria^*,1, von Arnold, Karin¹, Stendahl, Johan², Olsson, Mats², Klemedtsson, Leif¹, ¹ Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden² Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, Total N2O emissions from drained forest histosols in Sweden – an upscaling based on C:N ratios.

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Poster # 164. Knoepp, Jennifer¹, ¹ USDA Forest Service, Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, Otto, NC, USA, Soil carbon and nitrogen changes along riparian zone - side slope transects in southern Appalachian first order watersheds.

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Poster # 165. Ankumah, Ramble ^*,1, Thompson, Mieko¹, Derant, Michelle², Parke, Vada¹, Williams, Candiss³, Groffman, Peter⁴, ¹ Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL, United States² Okawood College, Huntsville, AL, United States³ Purdue University, West Lafeyette, IN, United States⁴ Institute for Ecosystems Studies, Millbrook, New York, United States, Influence of Landuse on selected soil enzyme activity and microbial diversity.

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Poster # 166. Bastias, Brigitte^*,1, Huang, Zhiqun², Xu, Zhihong², Blumfield, Tim ², Anderson, Ian³, Cairney, John¹, Bruns, Tom ⁴, ¹ Centre for Horticulture and Plant Sciences, Penrith South, NSW, Australia² Centre for Forestry and Horticultural Research, Nathan, QLD, Australia³ The Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen, United Kingdom⁴ University of California, Berkely, CA, Influence of repeated prescribed burning on soil fungal communities and soil chemistry in an Australian eucalypt forest.

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Poster # 167. Bentivenga, Stephen^*,, Badtke, Danica, , Successional changes in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities may occur in the absence of host species variation.

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Poster # 168. Callaham , Mac^*,1, Richter, Daniel², Hofmockel, Michael², ¹ USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA, USA² Nicholas School of the Environment, Durham, NC, USA, Long-term land use effects on soil invertebrate communities in Southern Piedmont soils.

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Poster # 169. Costello, Elizabeth^*,1, Schmidt, Steven¹, ¹ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Boulder, CO, USA, Diversity and Distribution of Novel Chloroflexi from Saturated Alpine Tundra Wet Meadow Soil.

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Poster # 170. Kelly, Charlene¹, Cumming, Jonathan^*,1, ¹ Department of Biology, Morgantown, WV, USA, Pinus virginiana succession influences soils and arbuscular mycorrhizae of a serpentine grassland.

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Poster # 171. DeBellis, Tonia¹, Kernaghan, Gavin^*,2, Widden, Paul¹, ¹ Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada² Université Laval, Ste.-Foy, Quebec, Canada, Plant community influences on terrestrial fungi in boreal-mixed wood forests.

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Poster # 172. Fujita, Ai^{*,1, 3, 5}, Miambi, Edouard^{2, 3}, Tholen, Anne³, Boga, Hamadi^{3, 4}, Brune, Andreas^{3, 5}, ¹ Graduate School of Environmental Earth Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan³ Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, 78457, Konstanz, Germany⁵ Department of Biogeochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany² Université Paris XII-Val de Marne, Paris, France⁴ Botany Department, Jomo Kenyata University, Nairobi, Kenya, Symbiotic digestion of humic substances by soil-feeding termites and their intestinal microbiota.

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Poster # 173. Gargas, Andrea^*,1, Landis, Frank ^*,2, ¹ University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI² University of Akron, Akron, OH, ITS2 rDNA secondary structure defines species-specific probe regions for fungi.

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Poster # 174. Gonzalez, Javier^*,1, Halvorson, Jonathan¹, ¹ Appalachian Farming Systems Research Center, USDA-ARS, Beaver, WV, Patterns of recovery of Bradford total protein (glomalin) from Appalachian soils: Effects of land use, depth and extraction reagent.

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Poster # 175. Hersh, Michelle¹, Vilgalys, Rytas¹, Clark, James¹, ¹ Duke University, Durham, NC, United States, Molecular analysis of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi associated with two Southeastern tree species.

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Poster # 176. Holmes, Chris^*,1, Nowak, Robert¹, Young, Michael², ¹ University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada, U.S.A.² Desert Research Institute, Las Vegas, NV, Intact biological soil crust does not affect soil moisture content in the Mojave Desert.

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Poster # 177. Housman, David^*,1, Belnap, Jayne¹, Darby, Brian², Neher, Deborah², ¹ USGS-Canyonlands Research Station, Moab² University of Vermont, Burlington, Islands of fertility in deserts: do biological crusts affect their formation?

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Poster # 178. Kageyama, Stacie^*,1, Bottomley, Peter¹, Cromack, Kermit ¹, Myrold, David ¹, ¹ Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA, Changes in soil fungal communities across meadow-forest transects in the Western Cascades Mountains of Oregon, USA.

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Poster # 179. Knorr, Melissa^*,1, Frey, Serita¹, Zak, Don², ¹ University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA² University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, Fungal and Bacterial Derived Organic Matter in Forest Stands Exposed to Elevated Carbon Dioxide and Ozone.

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Poster # 180. Lilly, Paul^*,1, ¹ State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY, Naturally occurring and lime-induced differences in the chemistry of northern hardwood forest soils.

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Poster # 181. Loecke, Terrance^*,1, Robertson, G. Philip¹, ¹ Kellogg Biological Station, Hickory Corners, MI, Spatial aggregation of soil resources affects decomposition, plant growth, and root proliferation.

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Poster # 182. Lteif, Arlette^*,1, Whalen, Joann¹, Camire, Claude², Bradley, Robert³, ¹ Mcgill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada² Université Laval, Laval, Quebec, Canada³ Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, Microbial activity in a hybrid poplar plantation as influenced by fertilization.

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Poster # 183. McCormick, Melissa^*,1, van den Heuvel, Ronald¹, Whigham, Dennis¹, Filley, Timothy², Edwards, Chris², ¹ Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, Maryland, USA² Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA, Soil fungal communities in successional and mature deciduous forests in Maryland: heterogeneity and implications for an ecological understanding of mycorrhizal interactions.

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Poster # 184. Melecis, Viesturs¹, Jucevica, Edite ¹, Salmane, Ineta¹, Ventins, Janis¹, ¹ Institute of Biology, Salaspils, Latvia, Influence of climate warming on soil mesofauna of coniferous forests of temperate latitudes.

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Poster # 185. Franklin, Rima¹, Mills, Aaron ^{*,1, 2}, ¹ NASA Space Life Sciences Lab, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA² University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA, Relationship of microbial community structure and soil microenvironment: determining important controls on the distribution of organisms using multi-scale spatial analysis.

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Poster # 186. Moron-Rios, Alejandro^*,1, ¹ ECOSUR, Sn. Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, México, Soil macrofauna of two successional evergreen cloud forest stages from the Reserva Biologica Cerro Huitepec, San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico.

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Poster # 187. Pendergast, Thomas^*,1, Carson, Walter¹, ¹ University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Soil community feedbacks in an old-field model system.

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Poster # 188. Picone, Christopher^*,1, ¹ Fitchburg State College, Fitchburg, MA, USA, Identities of plant species and functional groups determine spore communities of mycorrhizal fungi in grassland and agriculture.

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Poster # 189. Rotheray, Timothy^*,1, Jones, Hefin¹, Muller, Carsten¹, Boddy, Lynne¹, ¹ Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK, Collembola grazing during fungal interactions.

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Poster # 190. Smith, Candice¹, Randolph, J. C.¹, ¹ Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, The effects of nutrient additions and tree species on the soil microbial community of a temperate hardwood forest.

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Poster # 191. Song, Yufang¹, ¹ Key Laboratory of Terrestrial Ecological Process, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, Liaoning, China, Ecological diagnosis on sediments of petrol eum wastewater irrigation channel.

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Poster # 192. Swedo, Barbara ¹, Reynolds, H¹, ¹ Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, Plant-Microbe Associations: investigating controls on microbial community composition in restored and remnant grassland communities.

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Poster # 193. Waldrop, Mark^*,1, Harden, Jennifer¹, Manies, Kristen¹, ¹ United States Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, Fungal community composition and function in boreal forest soils: landscape controls and feedback to ecosystem processes.

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Poster # 194. Whalen, Joann^*,1, Kulhanek, Ales^{1, 2}, Lacombe, Simon¹, ¹ Macdonald Campus, McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, Canada² National Institute of Public Health, Prague, Czech Republic, Marking earthworms with rubidium for release-recapture studies.

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Poster # 195. Wilson, Melanie^*,1, Adl, Sina^*,1, ¹ Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, canada, Impact of nematode fungivory on mycorrhizal/seedling (Pinus strobus) microcosms.

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Poster # 196. Kwak, Y.S.^*,1, Hwangbo, J.K.¹, Yoon, H.C.², Kang, S.J.², Kang, J.S.², ¹ Research Istitute Industrial Science & Tecnology, Gwangyang, Chollanamdo, Korea² POSCO Engineering & Construction Co.,Ltd., Hwasung, Gyunggi-do, Korea, Development of sewage sludge and slag pelletizing systems available for landscape management and soil amendments.

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