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Member Symposium: Urban Soil Ecology - A New Frontier

Wednesday, November 18, 2015: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
206 AB (Convention Center)
Organizers:
Parwinder Grewal
Katalin Szlavecz
Richard Pouyat
Douglas S. Richmond


8:00 AM
The Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative
Diana Wall, Colorado State University
8:25 AM
Urban soil biodiversity and ecosystem function: A connection
Heikki Setälä, University of Helsinki
8:50 AM
Macroinvertebrates in urban soils: The global perspective
Katalin Szlavecz, Johns Hopkin University
9:15 AM
9:40 AM
Patterns and processes of soil nematode biodiversity in urban ecosystems
Parwinder Grewal, University of Tennessee Knoxville
10:05 AM
Break
11:00 AM
Turf management and the structure of the urban soil food web
Zhiqiang Cheng, University of Hawaii at Manoa ; Bishnu Bhandari, University of Hawaii at Manoa ; Parwinder Grewal, University of Tennessee Knoxville ; Douglas S. Richmond, Purdue University
11:12 AM
Analyzing resilience of urban soil food webs
Satyendra Pothula, University of Tennessee ; Parwinder Grewal, University of Tennessee Knoxville
11:32 AM
Root herbivory alters soil microbial processes and carbon cycling
Kyle Wickings, Cornell University ; Huijie Gan, Cornell University
11:44 AM
Discussion
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