AGU 2013 Session: Linking Microbial Communities and Biogeochemistry to Ecosystem Processes and Environmental Change
I am co-organizing a session at this year’s annual AGU meeting in San Francisco focusing on the microbial influence on atmospheric chemistry and ecosystem processes. We are bringing together a group with diverse disciplinary backgrounds and scientific approaches to share approaches and ideas. We hope to see you there on Friday!
Sessions: B51D (poster), B53D (oral), B54B (oral)
Section/Focus Group:
Conveners:
Laura Meredith, MIT, predawn@mit.edu
Catherine Febria, University of Maryland, febria@umces.edu
Jake Hosen, University of Maryland, hosen@cbl.umces.edu
Ed Hall, ed.hall@colostate.edu
Description:
Microbial communities are mediators of all biogeochemical cycles, controlling ecosystem responses to human-induced change. Advances in the molecular characterization of carbon and microbial communities have produced novel datasets that capture large spatiotemporal dynamics. Researchers are now able to address questions about the interactivities of nutrient flux from the microbial community to ecosystem scale. This session will highlight ressearch on the functional role of microbial communities in ecosystem-level biogeochemistry. We encourage contributions that investigate C, N, P, small-scale experiments and syntheses that can inform understanding of ecosystem-level responses to environmental change.
Index Terms:
[0439] BIOGEOSCIENCES / Ecosystems, structure and dynamics
[0470] BIOGEOSCIENCES / Nutrients and nutrient cycling
[0465] BIOGEOSCIENCES / Microbiology: ecology, physiology and genomics
[0428] BIOGEOSCIENCES / Carbon cycling