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- Meeting of the Americas
- MOA excerpt: "Frances and Cynthia attended the AGU Meeting of the Americas, held in Cancun, Mexico from May 14th to May 17th 2013."
Frances and Cynthia attended the AGU Meeting of the Americas, held in Cancun, Mexico from May 14th to May 17th 2013.
Frances presided a successful session on “Emerging Methods for Measuring the Structure and Spatial Distribution of Plants Roots”. The invited speakers were:
– Naama Raz-Yaseef, “Coarse root distribution of a semi-arid oak savanna estimated with ground penetrating radar”,
– Jeffrey Warren, “Roots revealed – Neutron imaging insight of spatial distribution, morphology growth and function”,
– Michael Allen, ” Comparative daily dynamics of mycorrhizal fungal hyphae across differing ecosystems using an automated minirhizotron and sensor network”.
Frances closed the session with a presentation of her work on “Species-level diversity of belowground structure in savanna woody plants”.
Cynthia presented a poster on how ground penetrating radar measurements show a spatial relationship between coarse root biomass and soil carbon abundance.