Sensitivity of Soil Organic Carbon and Chemical Weathering Dynamics to Variations in Landcover, Lithology, and Aspect in High Elevation Montane Systems

Lena Bixby1, Pamela L. Sullivan2, Sharon A Billings3, Holly R Barnard4, Li Li5, Daniel Hirmas6, Jessica Rickenbach1, Keira Johnson2, Julio Pachon7, Vaishnavi Varikuti7, Karla M Jarecke2 and Alexis Navarre-Sitchler8, (1)Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States, (2)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)University of Kansas, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Kansas Biological Survey and Center for Ecological Research, Lawrence, KS, United States, (4)University of Colorado Boulder, Geography, Boulder, United States, (5)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University Park, PA, United States, (6)University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States, (7)University of California Riverside, Riverside, United States, (8)Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geology & Geological Engineering, Hydrologic Science & Engineering, Golden, CO, United States