8:00 AM: Murphy, Meaghan^*,1, Potvin, Catherine^{1, 2}, ¹ Department of Biology, Montreal, QC, Canada² Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Panama, Biotic and abiotic controls on soil respiration in a tropical tree diversity plantation.

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8:20 AM: Black, Dawn^*,1, Brown, Kim¹, ¹ Ohio University, Athens, OH, United States of America, The effects of small-scale silviculture on soil CO₂ efflux and soil temperature in mixed oak forests of southeastern Ohio.

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8:40 AM: McGlynn, Terrence^*,1, Clark, Deborah², Fawcett, Ryan¹, Salinas, Daniel¹, Esparza, Alexandria¹, ¹ University of San Diego, San Diego, CA² University of Missouri - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, Support for the growth rate hypothesis in a terrestrial detrital community.

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9:00 AM: Eissenstat, David^*,1, Withington, Jennifer¹, Comas, Louise¹, Bauerle, Taryn ¹, Goebel, Marc¹, Lakso, Alan², ¹ Intercollege Graduate Program in Ecology, University Park, PA, USA² New York State Experiment Station, Geneva, NY, USA, Misconceptions on Seasonal Patterns of Root Growth in Woody Plants.

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9:20 AM: Li, Liguang^{*,1, 2}, He, Xingyuan¹, Li, Xiuzhen^*,1, ¹ Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang² Graduate school of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, Quantitative determination of the depth of edge influence on soil moisture of forest in upper reaches of Minjiang River, China.

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9:50 AM: Pocewicz, Amy^*,1, Morgan, Penelope¹, Kavanagh, Kathleen¹, ¹ University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, Effects of forest edges and adjacent land use on nitrogen dynamics in northern Idaho forests.

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10:10 AM: Barron, Alexander ^*,1, Hedin, Lars¹, ¹ Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, Dynamic control of nitrogen fixation by Inga spp. in a lowland tropical forest, Panama.

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10:30 AM: Brookshire, E.N.J.^*,1, Valett, H.M.¹, Webster, J.R.¹, Thomas, S.A.², ¹ Department of Biology, Blacksburg, VA, USA² Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ithaca, NY, USA, Increased export of dissolved organic nitrogen from forest watersheds across a gradient of chronic atmospheric loading.

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10:50 AM: Gartner, Tracy^{*,1, 2}, Treseder, Kathleen¹, Malcolm, Glenna², Sinsabaugh, Robert³, ¹ University of California-Irvine, Irvine, CA² Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA³ University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, Fire, fertilization and rhizosphere effects on extracellular enzyme activity in boreal forest soil.

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