1:30 PM: Frey, Serita^*,1, Smith, Heather¹, Drijber, Rhae², Melillo, Jerry ³, ¹ University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA² University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA³ The Ecosystems Center, Woods Hole, MA, USA, Microbial Community Responses to Soil Warming.

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1:50 PM: Cooper, Julia¹, Burton, David², Griffiths, Bryan³, Daniell, Tim³, ¹ Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada² Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Truro, NS, Canada³ Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee, UK, Temperature effects on respiration of a ¹⁴C-labelled substrate and decomposer community structure.

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2:10 PM: Scott-Denton, Laura^*,1, Monson, Russell¹, ¹ University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA, Spatially-explicit modeling of soil respiration rate in a high-elevation, subalpine forest.

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2:30 PM: Barrett, John^*,1, Virginia, Ross¹, Wall, Diana², Adams, Bryon³, Cary, Craig⁴, ¹ Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA² Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Ft. Collins, CO, USA³ Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA⁴ University of Delaware, Lewes, DE, USA, Soil biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across a latitudinal gradient in Victoria Land, Antarctica.

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2:50 PM: Gregorich, Ed^*,1, Elberling, Bo², Greenfield, Laurie³, Hopkins, David⁴, Novis, Phil⁵, Wardle, David⁵, ¹ Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada² University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark³ University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand⁴ University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland⁵ Landcare Research, Lincoln, New Zealand, Antarctic dry valley soil organic matter and microbial communities: Within-valley heterogeneity of composition and function.

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3:20 PM: Mathieu, Jerome¹, Rossi, Jean Pierre², Mora, Philippe³, Lavelle, Patrick¹, Grimaldi, Michel¹, Rouland, Corinne¹, ¹ IRD, Laboratory of tropical soil ecology (LEST), Bondy, France² INRA, Bordeaux, France³ Univ. of Paris 12, Créteil, France, A multi-scale 'portait' of factors influencing soil macrofauna biodiversity in Amazonia.

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3:40 PM: Doblas-Miranda, Enrique^*,1, Sánchez-Piñero, Francisco^*,1, González-Megías, Adela^*,1, ¹ Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain, Seasonal variations of soil macroarthropods in a mediterranean arid ecosystem.

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4:00 PM: Sarlo, Malena^{*,1, 2}, Potvin, Catherine^{1, 2}, ¹ McGill University-, Montreal, Quebec, Canada² Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute-, Panama, Panama, Earthworms, soil and litter arthropods abundance in a biodiversity tree plantation in the tropics.

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4:20 PM: Burke, David^*,1, Topa, Mary², Kretzer, Annette¹, ¹ State University of New York-Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, New York, USA² The Holden Arboretum, Kirtland, Ohio, USA, Bacterial diversity in soil associated with ectomycorrhizal root tips of loblolly pine: effects of long-term fertilization.

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4:40 PM: Fox, Catherine^*,1, Jarvis, Ian², Joschko, Monika³, ¹ Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Harrow, Ontario, Canada² Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada³ Leibniz-Zentrum - ZALF, Muncheberg, Germany, Predicting soil biota potential population abundance at regional scale.

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