The 2008 Joint Meeting of the Society for Range Management and the America Forage and Grassland Council. |
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| Tuesday, January 29, 2008: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM |
| Nunn - E2 (Galt House Hotel & Suites) |
| Current Ecological Issues in Grassland Science |
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| Moderator: | Rebecca McCulley |
| Organizer: | Rebecca McCulley |
| 1:30 PM | | | Welcoming Remarks
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| 1:40 PM | | | Biodiversity and Invasive Species: Challenges and Opportunities for Rangeland Research
Samuel D. Fuhlendorf, Karen R. Hickman |
| 2:00 PM | | | How Resident Plant Diversity, Disturbance Events, and Soil Nutrient Availability May Influence Weed Invasion within Pasture Communities
Benjamin F. Tracy, Ian J. Renne |
| 2:20 PM | | | Grasses, Shrubs and the Carbon Cycle: Functional Consequences of Ecosystem State Changes
Steven R. Archer, Thomas W. Boutton, Mitchel P. McClaran, Heather L. Throop, X. Ben Wu |
| 2:40 PM | | | Multiple Climatic Changes and the Structure and Function of Ecosystems: Effects of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Warming, and Soil Moisture on An Oldfield Ecosystem
Paul Kardol, Aimee T. Classen, Richard J. Norby |
| 3:00 PM | | | Break
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| 3:20 PM | | | Interactions between Plant Growth and Soil Nutrient Cycling Under Elevated CO2
Marie-Anne De Graaff, Johan Six |
| 3:40 PM | | | Grass and Juniper Responses to Modified Precipitation Seasonality and Warming
David D. Briske, Mark G. Tjoelker, Astrid Volder |
| 4:00 PM | | | Climate Change and Tallgrass Prairie
Alan K. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, John M. Blair |
| 4:20 PM | | | Change Is in the Air: Impacts of the Historical and Predicted Increase in Atmospheric CO2 on Pasture and Prairie
H. Wayne Polley, Philip A. Fay |
| 4:40 PM | | | Soil Organic Carbon Sequestration in Pastures
Alan J. Franzluebbers |
| Sponsor: | Symposia |
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