Colleagues, Please consider submitting an abstract to the following session:
Soil Mechanisms Controlling Forest Responses to Management and Change Soil Science Society of America Annual Meeting, Tampa, Florida November 3-6, 2013 Organizers: Jeff Hatten, Oregon State University, [email protected] Brian Strahm, Virginia Tech, [email protected] A mechanistic understanding of how soil processes respond to changing environmental conditions is required in order to predict how forest ecosystems will function and change under different management and environmental conditions. We invite presentations that highlight processes in forest soils as they respond to changes in forest management (e.g., harvest intensity, fertilization, site preparation) or other environmental changes (e.g., land use/land cover, climate, fire regime). We also invite presentations that examine how those soil processes affect larger scale phenomena, such as tree, ecosystem, and stand productivity, water quality, long-term soil productivity, or biodiversity. We are particularly interested in presentations to go beyond the effect of treatments on soils or forest productivity and present tested hypotheses on the mechanisms responsible for trends witnessed as a result of the treatment. We look forward to an active discussion over a half-day session of invited and volunteered poster and oral presentations and hope you will consider submitting your abstract to the SSSA Forest, Range, and Wildland Soils Division. We welcome any suggestions for invited poster presenters and/or speakers that you may have knowledge of, in particular students and early career scientists. Please circulate this advertisement among your colleagues. Abstract submission: http://scisoc.confex.com/scisoc/2013am/index.html SSSA Division: Forest, Range & Wildland Soils Oral Session - Soil Mechanisms Controlling Forest Responses to Management and Environmental Change: I Poster Session - Soil Mechanisms Controlling Forest Responses to Management and Environmental Change: II Important Dates (from SSSA website): April 30, 2013 at 6:00pm Eastern Time: Early Abstract Submission Deadline. Abstract submission fees increase $20 per abstract after this date. May 14, 2013 at 6:00pm Eastern Time: Final Abstract Submission Deadline. Late June, 2013: Presentation Notification. You will be notified of your presentation date and time in late June. August 27, 2013 at 6:00pm Eastern Time. Aug 27 is the abstract editing deadline for the printed program book and abstract CD only. Presenters may continue to make changes to the title, authors, and abstract text that will then be reflected in the online program, annual meetings app, and the program addendum. Thank you! Jeff Hatten Assistant Professor of Forest Soils Oregon State University Forest Engineering, Resources & Management 279 Peavy Hall Corvallis, OR 97331 Email [email protected]
