1:30 PM: Weathers, Kathleen^*,1, Caraco, Nina¹, Ewing, Holly², ¹ Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY, USA² Bates College, Lewiston, ME, USA, Fog and phosphorous: Mist connections?

FULL ABSTRACT

1:50 PM: Huang, Xiaoqing^*,1, Walbridge, Mark¹, ¹ Department of Biology, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA, Do floodplain forests reduce phosphorus loadings received in floodwaters through the formation of organic matter – metal (Al, Fe) – P_i complexes?

FULL ABSTRACT

2:10 PM: Navaratnam, John^*,1, Walbridge, Mark¹, ¹ West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA, Microbial community composition suggests spatially explicit patterns of C, N, P biogeochemistry in two southeastern U.S. floodplain forests.

FULL ABSTRACT

2:30 PM: Chambers, Chris^*,1, Marshall, John ², Danehy, Robert ³, ¹ School of Biological Sciences, Pullman, WA, USA² Department of Forest Resources, Moscow, ID, 99164³ Weyerhaueser Company, Springfield, OR, 97478, Uptake and recycling of nitrogen two years after fertilizer addition to a riparian ecosystem.

FULL ABSTRACT

2:50 PM: Gruenzweig, Jose^{*,1, 2}, Rotenberg, Eyal², Yakir, Dan², ¹ The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel² Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, Factors contributing to enhanced carbon sequestration in a semi-arid ecosystem.

FULL ABSTRACT

3:10 PM: , BREAK.

3:20 PM: Sierra, Carlos^*,1, Harmon, Mark¹, del Valle, Jorge², Orrego, Sergio ^{1, 2}, Moreno, Flavio², ¹ Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR² Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medellín, Medellín, Colombia, Estimation of carbon fluxes and stocks and their uncertainty in a tropical forest of Colombia.

FULL ABSTRACT

3:40 PM: Raich, James^*,1, Bedoya, Ricardo², González, Eugenio², Russell, Ann¹, ¹ Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa² Organization for Tropical Studies, Inc., San José, Costa Rica, Biomass production and carbon sequestration by tropical tree species in experimental plantations in humid lowland Costa Rica.

FULL ABSTRACT

4:00 PM: Trueman, Rebecca^*,1, Gonzalez-Meler, Miquel¹, Berry, Joseph², ¹ University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA² Carnegie Institution of Washington, stanford, ca, USA, Carbon allocation and the contribution of C from pools of varying age in a P. deltoides plantation during a simulated drought.

FULL ABSTRACT

4:20 PM: Huggett, Brett^*,1, Schaberg, Paul², Hawley, Gary ¹, ¹ The University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA² USDA Forest Service, South Burlington, VT, USA, Assessing the influence of long-term calcium and aluminum soil fertilization on wound closure in sugar maple (Acer saccharum).

FULL ABSTRACT

4:40 PM: Schilling, Jonathan^*,1, Jellison, Jody¹, Shortle, Walter², ¹ University of Maine, Orono, ME² USDA Forest Service, Durham, NH, Iron and aluminum effects on oxalate regulation and subsequent base cation accumulation during wood decomposition by brown-rot fungi.

FULL ABSTRACT