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Dartmouth College

Ross Virginia, Dartmouth College

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Dartmouth Professor Ross Virginia, an expert in polar ecosystem ecology and policy issues, and his colleagues have found that soil water and microbes' respiration contribute to fluctuations of carbon dioxide in the world's coldest desert, where climate change is expected to increase underground moisture and microorganisms.

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