BOREAL N GAP WORKSHOP

Venue: The Management Centre, Bangor University (Wales, UK)

Programme

10.30 Welcome by Tom DeLuca and Davey Jones 

COFFEE 

Session: N2 fixation (Chair: Tom DeLuca)

11.00 Tom DeLuca (The University of Washington Seattle)   
Nutrient cycling in the boreal forest: An overview and new insights.

11.30 María Arróniz-Crespo (Bangor University)
Fate of biologically-fixed nitrogen in the boreal bryosphere

11.55 Lorna Street (Heriot-Watt University)
Impact of N2 fixation on feather moss physiology 

12.20 Gwen Lancashire (Bangor Univeristy)
Does gender affect cyanobacterial colonisation on Pleurozium schreberi?

12.35 María Arróniz-Crespo (Bangor University)
N releases from the moss mat: importance of disturbance


13.00 LUNCH 

Session: N and C dynamics (Chair: Nick Ostle)

14.15  Davey Jones (Bangor University)
Mycorrhizal associations and organic N in N limited environments

14.30 Nick Cutler (Churchill College)
Microbial communities of the boreal bryosphere  

14:55 Kelly Mason (CEH Lancaster)
Regulation of boreal soil respiration: evidence from a Swedish forest fire chronosequence.

15.20 Simon Oakley (CEH Lancaster)
GHG dynamics in the boreal forest.

15.45  COFFEE

Session: Summary and overview

16.15 Tom DeLuca, Nick Ostle and Davey Jones

19.00  DINNER