We would like to bring your attention to our session entitled “Belowground carbon allocation and retention: Frontiers in biogeociences and climate change” (B11) at the 2011 American Geophysical Union’s Fall Meeting (December 5-9, 2011).
*Session Description* Belowground carbon allocation (BCA) is an important ecosystem carbon flux and plays a major role in driving biogeochemical processes such as nutrient cycling and soil C storage. This session invites contributions that further our understanding on the quantification of BCA, carbon residence time within various compartments, mechanisms of long-term carbon storage, or biogeochemical interactions with carbon allocated belowground. We welcome contributions from different spatio-temporal scales of investigation and encourage presentations from both experimental and modeling studies that focus on testing hypotheses, isolating mechanisms, and identifying knowledge gaps. Abstract submission is now open and extends until 4 August. More details about abstract submission can be found at http://agu-fm11.abstractcentral.com/. Also, please feel free to circulate this session description to your other colleagues, should you think they may be interested in making a contribution as well. All the best, Niles Hasselquist, Richard Lucas, Rodrigo Vargas, and Erik Hobbie (session conveners) NilesHasselquist Postdoctoral Fellow Department of ForestEcology and Management SwedishUniversityof Agriculture Sciences 90 183 Umeå, Sweden email: [email protected]
