Are you planning on attending CERF this November? If so, we invite you, your students, post-docs and/or collaborators to submit an abstract to our session (abstract below) at the 22nd Biennial Conference of the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation (Toward Resilient coasts and estuaries, science for sustainable solutions) being held in San Diego, CA from 3-7 November 2013.
The Abstract Submission Deadline is June 1st. Abstract submission and additional information about the conference can be found at the CERF 2013 website (http://www.sgmeet.com/cerf2013/). SCI-045 Disturbance and Stressor Impacts on Microbial Communities and Biogeochemical Feedbacks Microbes are critical to cycling and regulating carbon and nutrient fluxes into and through coastal ecosystems, yet little is known about the relationship between microbial community diversity and ecosystem function, and even less about community responses to pollutants or any remediation approaches. This session will examine feedback mechanisms that control and impact microbial communities and the biogeochemical processes they carry out in coastal ecosystems as a consequence of disturbance or stress. Feedback mechanisms could include how disturbance triggers spatial and temporal microbial diversity changes and how these changes alter reaction rates in biogeochemical cycles including greenhouse gas fluxes. Thanks, Brian Roberts ([email protected]) Anne Bernhard ([email protected]) Annette Engel ([email protected]) Anne Giblin ([email protected])
