180 Symposium--Bugs and Dirt: Four Letter Words That Go Together (includes graduate student competition)
Oral Session
SSSA Division: Soil MineralogySoils provide habitat and life resources for a wide array of invertebrates. Invertebrates interact with the soil to control, in part, the precipitation, dissolution, and distribution of soil minerals, and are a major source of soil bioturbation. This symposium focuses on how insects and other invertebrates directly and indirectly modify and control soil mineral formation and weathering, and affect other soil physical and chemical properties. Special emphasis will be given to the role that ants and bees have in soil mineral processes as well as mineralogical, entomological, and ichnological methods used to study this interaction.
Cosponsor(s):
Soil Mineralogy
Pedology
Soil Biology & Biochemistry
Tuesday, November 17, 2015: 7:55 AM-12:00 PM
Minneapolis Convention Center, M100 D
Organizers:
Randal J. Southard
,
Edwin Lewis
,
Daniel Hirmas
and
Isaacs Rufus
Moderators:
Randal J. Southard
and
Daniel Hirmas
8:30 AM
9:30 AM
10:15 AM
10:45 AM
11:15 AM