Dear colleagues, The next ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting will be held between 22-27 February 2015 in Granada, Spain. We are hosting session 116, called "Impact of microbial biodiversity on aquatic ecosystem functioning and biogeochemistry" and would very much like you to participate. We hope to bring to together both modelers and observationalists working on this exciting topic to share the most recent progress in the field.
Please note that the deadline for abstract submissions is 10th October 2014 (http://sgmeet.com/aslo/granada2015/). Looking forward to a great meeting in Granada! Adam Martiny (UC Irvine) Juan Bonachela (U Strathclyde) Elena Litchman (MSU) Chris Klausmeier (MSU) Simon Levin (Princeton) Session description: In most aquatic ecosystems, microbial diversity is immense. This incredible biodiversity raises fundamental questions about the role and impact of diverse microbial assemblages on ecosystem functions and, more broadly, on biogeochemical cycles. The session will bring together both experimentalists and theoreticians from a range of disciplines with a goal to characterize microbial diversity and to identify fundamental links between diversity and ecosystem functioning. Furthermore, we welcome submissions from researchers studying the role of this immense diversity in the redundancy of microbial communities and ecosystem responses to environmental change. We hope to explore studies that utilize novel culture, field, and/or modeling approaches to address these questions.
