Primary Convener:
Caitlin Hicks Pries, Dartmouth College

Convener:
Richard P Phillips, Indiana University
Mark McDonald, University of Arkansas
Lang DeLancey, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Hannah Shulman, University of Tennessee
Sean Schaefer, University of New Hampshire

Early Career Convener:
Amelia Fitch, Oregon State University

Chair:
Richard P Phillips, Indiana University
Caitlin Hicks Pries, Dartmouth College
Mark McDonald, University of Arkansas
Amelia Fitch, Oregon State University

The structure of plant and fungal communities (i.e., species identities and abundances) can have large effects on soil biogeochemical cycles. These effects can stem from their use of soil resources (water, nutrients, and, in the case of fungi, organic matter), their contributions to SOM (through the quality and quantity of their litter, necromass, and exudates), and their associations with other communities (beneficial associations with mutualists, antagonistic associations with pathogens, competition with saprotrophs). In this session, we welcome all presentations that link plant or fungal communities to soil biogeochemical cycling, especially those considering interactions with symbiotic organisms and non-symbiotic free-living microbes.

Index Terms
0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling
0428 Carbon cycling
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics
0470 Nutrients and nutrient cycling

Neighborhoods:
3. Earth Covering