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Professor and Director, Institute of Arctic
Studies- within the Dickey Center for International Understanding
Ross Virginia is an ecosystem ecologist interested in human influence on
biogeochemical cycles. His emphasis is on understanding how processes such as
desertification and climate change alter plant-soil interactions and the
ecology and biodiversity of soils. Prof. Virginia's research examines carbon
and nitrogen cycling in deserts, including arid lands of the southwest and the
polar deserts of Antarctica, the McMurdo Dry Valleys. He is also interested in
the relationships between the disciplines of ecology, ecosystem science and
environmental law.
Selected Publications
- Barrett., J. E., R. A. Virginia and others. 2007. Biogeochemical
stoichiometry of Antarctic Dry Valley ecosystems. JGR: Biosciences
Vol.112, No. G01010, February, 07.
- Barrett, J. E., R. A. Virginia and others. 2006. A soil carbon
turnover model for the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Soil Biology and
Biochemistry. In press.
- Barrett, J.E., R. A. Virginia, A. Parsons, and D. Wall. 2005.
Potential C and N turnover in soils of the McMurdo Dry Valleys,
Antarctica. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research, 37:107-116.B
- Barrett J. E., R. A. Virginia , and others. 2004. Variation in
Biogeochemistry and Soil Biodiversity across Spatial Scales in a Polar Desert
Ecosystem. Ecology 85:3105-3118
- Parsons, A. N., J. E. Barrett, D. H. Wall, and R. A. Virginia. 2004. Soil
Carbon Dioxide Flux in Antarctic Dry Valley Ecosystems. Ecosystems 7:
286-295.
- Brooks, R. O., R. Jones , and R. A. Virginia . 2002. Law and Ecology: The
Rise of the Ecosystem Regime. Ashgate Publishers Ltd.: Aldershot , Brookfield
USA, Singapore, Sydney. 411 pp. For the series, Ecology and Law in Modern
Society, R. O. Brooks and R. A. Virginia, eds.
Courses
- ENVS 15 – From Pole to Pole: Environmental Issues of the Earth’s Cold
Regions
- ENVS 25 Ecological Agriculture
- AFSP- Africa Foreign Study Program
Office: 109 Steele
Phone: 603-646-0192
Email: ross.a.virginia@dartmouth.edu
Web Page: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~ravirg/index.htm
Faculty Directory: http://dfd.dartmouth.edu/directory/show/285
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