1:30 PM: Pagel, Alisha^*,1, Garland, Jay², Day, Frank¹, Hungate, B⁴, Carney, K³, Drake, Bert³, ¹ Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA² Dynamac Corporation, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA⁴ Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ³ Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, Maryland, USA, Microbial community function in elevated atmospheric CO₂ in Florida, USA scrub oak soil and leaf litter.

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1:50 PM: Nemergut, Diana ^{*,1, 2}, Schmidt, Steven¹, ¹ University of Colorado, Boulder, CO² Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Microbial community succession in unvegetated, recently-deglaciated soils.

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2:10 PM: Blankinship, Joseph^*,1, Hungate, Bruce^{1, 2}, ¹ Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ² Merriam-Powell Center for Environmental Research, Flagstaff, AZ, Potential impacts of global change on the capacity for high-affinity methane oxidation in five upland soils.

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2:30 PM: Hannam, Kirsten^*,1, Quideau, Sylvie¹, ¹ University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, The effects of above- and below-ground inputs on soil characteristics: a reciprocal transfer study.

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2:50 PM: Kunkle, Justin ^*,1, Walters, Michael¹, Kobe, Richard ¹, ¹ Department of Forestry, East Lansing, MI, USA, Nutrient resorption from senescing fine roots of four northern temperate tree species.

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3:20 PM: Hartman, Melannie^*,1, Baron, Jill^{1, 2}, Ojima, Dennis¹, ¹ Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Fort Collins, CO, USA² U.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins, CO, USA, Calculating pre-measurement atmospheric deposition, stream chemistry, and soil chemistry for an alpine watershed in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.

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3:40 PM: Vourlitis, George^*,1, Zorba, Gypsi¹, Pasquini, Sarah¹, ¹ Biological Sciences Department, San Marcos, CA, USA, Soil N and P storage and cycling in semi-arid shrublands exposed to high atmospheric N deposition.

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4:00 PM: Bilodeau Gauthier, Simon^{*,1, 2}, Houle, Daniel^{1, 3}, ¹ Centre Saint-Laurent, Environnement Canada, Montréal, Québec, Canada² Département de Biologie, Faculté des sciences, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada³ Direction de la Recherche Forestière, Forêt Québec, Ministère des Ressources Naturelles du Québec, Sainte-Foy, Québec, Canada, Historical reconstruction of soil acidification in Quebec lake watersheds, by the dendrochemistry of sugar maple (Acer saccharum).

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4:20 PM: Gradowski, Tomasz ^*,1, Thomas, Sean ², ¹ University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada² University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Does phosphorus limit sugar maple growth in Central Ontario? Correlational and experimental results.

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4:40 PM: Finzi, Adrien^*,1, Zaccherio, Meredith¹, ¹ Boston University, Boston, MA, Atmospheric deposition, soil nutrient availability and the composition of northeastern U.S. forests.

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