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BOOKS: Brooks, Richard O., Ross T. Jones and Ross A. Virginia. 2002. Law and Ecology: The Rise of the Ecosystem Regime. Ashgate Publishing Ltd.: Aldershot, Brookfield USA, Singapore, Sydney. 411pp. For the Series: Ecology and Law in Modern Society, edited by R. O. Brooks and R. A. Virginia. Selected as a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2003. Book Information (hardcover) PROFESSIONAL ARTICLES: Parsons, A. N., J. E. Barrett, D. H. Wall, and R. A. Virginia. CO2 flux from Antarctic dry valley soils. 2004. Ecosystems. In Press. Porazinska, D. L. A. G. Fountain, T. Nylen, M. Tranter, R. A. Virginia and D. H. Wall. Cryoconite holes and the McMurdo Dry Valley glaciers: morphological, biological, and chemical characteristics. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research. In Press. Gooseff, M. N., J. E. Barrett, P. T. Doran, A. G. Fountain, W. B. Lyons, A. N. Parsons, D. L. Porazinska, R. A. Virginia, and D. H. Wall. 2003. Snowpack influence on soil biogeochemical processes and invertebrate distribution in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica . Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 35(1): 92-100. Kemp, P. R., J. F. Reynolds, R. A. Virginia, and W. G. Whitford. 2003. Decomposition of leaf and root litter in the Chihuahuan Desert: Effects of three years of summer drought. Journal of Arid Environments 53:21-39. Murphy, K. L., I. C. Burke, M. A. Vinton, W. K. Lauenroth, M. R. Aguiar, D. A. Wedin, R. A. Virginia, and P. N. Lowe. 2002. Regional analysis of litter quality in the central grassland region of North America. Journal of Vegetation Science 13(3):395-402. Porazinska, D. L., D. H. Wall, and R. A. Virginia. 2002. Invertebrates in ornithogenic soils at Ross Island, Antarctica. Polar Biology 25:569-574. Article Barrett, J. E., R. A. Virginia, and D. H. Wall. 2002. Trends in resin and KCl-extractable soil nitrogen across landscape gradients in Taylor Valley, Antarctica. Ecosystems 5:289-299. Article Doran, P. T, J. C. Priscu, W. B. Lyons, J. E. Walsh, A. G. Fountain, D. M. McKnight, D. L. Moorhead, R. A. Virginia, D. H. Wall, G. D. Clow, C. H. Fritzen, C. P. McKay, and A. N. Parsons. 2002. Antarctic climate cooling and terrestrial ecosystem response. Nature 415:517-520. Abstract Walsh, J. E., Doran, P. T, J. C. Priscu, W. B. Lyons, A. G. Fountain, D. M. McKnight, D. L. Moorhead, R. A. Virginia, D. H. Wall, G. D. Clow, C. H. Fritzen, C. P. McKay, and A. N. Parsons. 2002. Recent temperature trends in the Antarctic, reply to Turner, J., King J. C., Lachlan-Cope, T. A., and P. D. Jones. Nature 418: 292. Moorhead, D. L, D. H. Wall, R. A. Virginia, and A. N. Parsons. 2002. Impacts of temperature regimes on Scottnema lindsayae (Nematoda) in Antarctic soils: A modeling analysis. Polar Biology 25:118-125. Article Treonis, A. M., D. H. Wall, and R. A. Virginia. 2002. Field and microcosm studies of decomposition and soil biota in a cold desert soil. Ecosystems 5:159-170. Abstract Porazinska, D. L., D. H. Wall and R. A. Virginia. 2002. Population age structure of nematodes in the Antarctic Dry Valleys: Perspectives on time, space, and habitat suitability. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 34(2) 158-169. Abstract Courtright, E. M., D. H. Wall, and R. A. Virginia. 2001. Determining habitat suitability for soil invertebrates in an extreme environment: The McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Antarctic Science 13:9-17. Burkins, M. B., R. A. Virginia, and D. H. Wall. 2001. Soil organic carbon cycling in Taylor Valley, Antarctica: Quantifying soil reservoirs and soil respiration. Global Change Biology 7:113-125. Abstract |
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Burkins, M. B., R. A. Virginia, C. P. Chamberlain, and D. H. Wall. 2000. Origin and distribution of soil organic matter in Taylor Valley, Antarctica. Ecology 81(9):2377-2391. Article |
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Connin, S. L., X. Feng, and R. A. Virginia. 2001. Isotopic discrimination during long-term decomposition in an aridland ecosystem. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 33:41-51. Abstract |
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Virginia, R. A. and D. H. Wall. 2001. Ecosystem function, basic principles of. Pp. 345-352 In: Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Vol. 2. S. A. Levin, editor in chief. Academic Press, San Diego, CA. Link |
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Courtright, E. M., D. H. Wall, R. A. Virginia, J. T. Vida, L. M. Frisse and W. K. Thomas. 2000. Nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequence diversity in the Antarctic nematode Scottnema lindsayae. Journal of Nematology 32:143-153. |
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Treonis, A. M., D. H. Wall and R. A. Virginia. 2000. The use of anhydrobiosis by soil nematodes in the Antarctic Dry Valleys. Functional Ecology 14:460-467. Abstract |
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Wall, D. H. and R. A. Virginia. 2000. The world beneath our feet: Soil biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Pp. 225-241, In: P. Raven and T. A. Williams (eds). Nature and Human Society: The Quest for a Sustainable World. National Academy of Sciences Press. 644pp. Book |
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Feng, X., J. C. Peterson, S. A. Quideau, R. A. Virginia, R. C. Graham, L. J. Sonder, and O. A. Chadwick. 1999. Distribution, accumulation and fluxes of soil carbon in four monoculture lysimeters at San Dimas Experimental Forest, California. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 63:1319-1333. |
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Moorhead, D. L., P. Doran, A. G. Fountain, W. B. Lyons, D. M. McKnight, J. C. Priscu, R. A. Virginia, and D. H. Wall. 1999. Ecological leagacies: Production, persistence, and influence on soil and lake ecosystems of the Antarctic Dry Valleys. BioScience 49:1009-1019. |
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Reynolds, J. F., R. A. Virginia, P. R. Kemp, A. G. de Soyza, and D. C. Tremmel 1999. Impact of drought on desert shrubs: Effects of seasonality and degree of resource island development. Ecological Monographs 69:69-106. Abstract Treonis, A.M., D. H. Wall, and R. A. Virginia. 1999. Invertebrate biodiversity in Antarctic Dry Valley soils and sediments. Ecosystems 2:482-492. Abstract |
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Virginia, R. A., and D. H. Wall. 1999. How soils structure communities in the Antarctic Dry Valleys. BioScience 49:973-983. |
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Wall, D. H. and R. A. Virginia. 1999. Controls on soil biodiversity: insights from extreme environments. Applied Soil Ecology 13:137-150. |
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Burkins, M.B., C. P. Chamberlain, R. A. Virginia, and D.W. Freckman. 1998. Natural abundance of carbon and nitrogen isotopes in potential sources of organic matter to soils of Taylor Valley, Antarctica. Antarctic Journal of the United States 1996 Review Issue, 31(2): 209-210. Powers, L. P., Ho, M., D. W. Freckman, and R. A. Virginia. 1998. Distribution, community structure and microhabitats of soil biota along an elevational gradient in Taylor Valley, Antarctica. Arctic and Alpine Research 30:133-141. Abstract |
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BassiriRad, H., J. F. Reynolds, R. A. Virginia. and M. H. Brunelle. 1997. Growth and root and uptake capacity of three desert species in response to atmospheric CO2 enrichment. Australian Journal of Plant Physiology 24: 353-358. |
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Brussaard, L., V. M. Behan-Pelletier, D. E. Bignell, V. K. Brown, Wim A.M. Didden, P. J. Folgarait, C. Fragoso, D. W. Freckman, V. V.S.R. Gupta, T. Hattori, D. Hawksworth, C. Klopatek, P. Lavelle, D. Malloch, J. Rusek, B. Söderström, J. M. Tiedje and R. A. Virginia. 1997. Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in soil. Ambio 26:563-570. |
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Connin, S. L., R. A. Virginia, and C. P. Chamberlain. 1997. Carbon isotopes reveal soil organic matter dynamics following arid land shrub expansion. Oecologia 110:374-386. Article |
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Freckman, D. W. and R. A. Virginia. 1997. Low-diversity Antarctic soil communities: Distribution and response to disturbance. Ecology 78:363-369. Article. |
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Reynolds, J. F., R. A. Virginia, and W. H. Schlesinger. 1997. Defining functional types for models of desertification. pp. 194-215, In: T. M. Smith, H. H. Shugart, and F. I. Woodward (eds.). Plant Functional Types. Their Relevance to Ecosystem Properties and Global Change. International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme Book Series 1. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England. Kemp, P. R., D. Waldecker, J. F. Reynolds, C. E. Owensby, and R. A. Virginia. 1994. Effects of elevated CO2 and nitrogen fertilization pretreatments on decomposition on tallgrass prairie leaf litter. Plant and Soil 165:115-127. Also pp. 115-127, In: Belowground Response to Rising Atmospheric CO2: Implications for Plants, Soil Biota, and Ecosystem Processes. P. S. Curtis, E. G. O'Neill, J. A. Terri, D. R. Zak, and K. S. Pregitzer (eds.). Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences Volume 60. 1995. Kluwer Academic Publishers. Dordrecht. The Netherlands. Abstract |
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Cheng, W., and R. A. Virginia. 1993. Measurement of microbial biomass in arctic tundra soils using fumigation-extraction and substrate-induced respiration procedures. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 25:135-141. |
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Virginia, R. A., W. M. Jarrell, W. G. Whitford, and D. W. Freckman. 1992. Soil biota and soil properties associated with the surface rooting zone of mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa ) in historical and recently desertified habitats. Biology and Fertility of Soils 14:90-98. |
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Bainbridge, D. A., and R. A. Virginia. 1990. Revegetation in the California Sonoran Desert. Restoration and Management Notes 8:3-14. |
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Schlesinger, W. H., J. F. Reynolds, G. L. Cunningham, L. F. Huenneke, W. M. Jarrell, R. A. Virginia, and W. G. Whitford. 1990. Biological feedbacks in global desertification. Science 247:1043-1048. |
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Virginia, R. A. 1990. Desert restoration: the role of woody legumes. pp. 23-30, In: Environmental Restoration. Science and Strategies for Restoring the Earth. J. J. Berger (ed.). Island Press, Washington D. C. |
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Freckman, D. W., and R. A. Virginia. 1989. Plant-feeding nematodes in deep-rooting desert ecosystems. Ecology 70:1665-1678. Article. |
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Kay. I. S., and R. A. Virginia. 1989. Asymbiotic dinitrogen fixation by tundra in the Imnavait Creek drainage, Alaska USA. Biology and Fertility of Soils.7:207-212. |
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Caldwell, M. M., and R. A. Virginia. 1989. Root systems. pp. 367-398, In: Physiological Plant Ecology - Field Methods and Instrumentation. J. Ehleringer, H. A. Mooney, R. W. Pearcy, and P. Rundel (eds.), Chapman and Hall Publ. |
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Jenkins, M. B., R. A. Virginia, and W. M. Jarrell. 1989. Ecology of fast-growing and slow-growing mesquite-nodulating rhizobia in Chihuahuan and Sonoran Desert ecosystems. Soil Science Society of America Journal 53:543-549. |
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Virginia, R. A. and W. M. Jarrell. 1987. Approaches for studying the function of deep root systems. pp. 109-129, In: J. D. Tenhunen, F. Catarino, O. L. Lange, and W. C. Oechel (eds), Plant Response to Stress-Functional Analysis in Mediterranean Ecosystems. NATO ASI Vol G15, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg. |
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Virginia, R. A. 1986. Soil development under legume tree canopies. Forest Ecology and Management 16:69-79. |
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Virginia, R. A., M. B. Jenkins, and W. M. Jarrell. 1986. Depth of root symbiant occurrence in soil. Biology and Fertility of Soils 2:127-130. |
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Virginia, R. A., and W. M. Jarrell. 1983. Soil properties in a mesquite-dominated Sonoran Desert ecosystem. Soil Science Society of America Journal 47:138-144. |
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Virginia, R. A., and C. C. Delwiche. 1982. Natural 15N abundance of presumed N2-fixing and non-N2-fixing plants from selected ecosystems. Oecologia (Berl.) 54:317-325. |
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Virginia, R. A., W. M. Jarrell, and E. Franco-Vizcaino. 1982. Direct measurement of denitrification in a Prosopis dominated Sonoran Desert ecosystem. Oecologia (Berl.) 53:120-122. |
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Owings, D. H., M. Borchert, and R. Virginia. 1977. The behavior of California ground squirrels. Animal Behaviour 25:221-230. |