Biogeochemical Consequences of Dispersal and Drought on Semi-Arid Litter Decomposer Microbial Communities

Brianna Finley1, Claudia Weihe2, Kathleen K Treseder3, Jennifer B H Martiny2, Adam Martiny4, Shi Wang5, Alejandra Rodriguez-Verdugo1, Eoin Brodie6 and Steven D Allison7, (1)University of California Irvine, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Irvine, United States, (2)University of California Irvine, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)University of California Irvine, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Irvine, CA, United States, (4)University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (5)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, United States, (6)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, CA, United States, (7)University of California Irvine, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States