Hi Everyone, I would like to promote one last time an exciting session at AGU focused on how interactions between plants and soil microbial communities drive current ecosystem function and also impact future ecosystem responses to global change, from both modeling and measurement perspectives. The session details are below. We look forward to receiving you contributed abstracts and seeing in you in San Francisco.
Session ID: 13860 Session Title: B030. Closing the plant-soil loop: Measuring and modeling the impacts of plant-microbial interactions on coupled carbon-nutrient cycles Section/Focus Group: Biogeosciences Session Description: Plant acquisition of water and nutrients is mediated and enhanced by interactions with both free-living and symbiotic rhizosphere microbes. Likewise, soil organic matter decomposition and stabilization are heavily influenced by root exudation, litter properties, and rhizosphere processes. However, both measurements and models have traditionally considered these processes separately, with either a plant-centric or microbe-centric focus. Recent developments in measurements, experimental techniques, and ecological modeling are linking plants with soil microbes as integrated systems that drive ecosystem carbon and nutrient cycling. Emerging research suggests that integrating empirical data and processes related to plant-microbe interactions into models could enhance our predictive understanding of ecosystem responses to global change, fundamentally affecting the predicted magnitude and dynamics of the future land carbon sink. We invite experimental, modeling, and theoretical contributions focused on the roles of symbiotic or competitive interactions between plants and soil microbes in biogeochemical cycling at both ecosystem and global scales. Conveners: Benjamin Sulman, Princeton University; Edward Brzostek, West Virginia University
