Dale Vitt

Professor and Chair of Department
 
Ph.D. 1970, University of Michigan
 
Biogeochemistry and paleoecology of peatlands; biosystematics and taxonomy (emphasizing bryophytes)
 
Office: Life Science II room 422
Lab: Life Science II room 481
Office Phone: 618-453-3210
Lab Phone 618-453-3226
email: DV
webpage

Research Interests

My interests include ecosystem dynamics, biogeochemistry and development of peatlands, particularly as related to climatic changes. I also have continuing interests in all aspects of research related to bryophytes including ecological and systematic studies of mosses in tropical, temperate and arctic areas. I am especially interested in biodiversity, habitat preferences, morphometrics and cladistic analyses of moss taxa and along with other staff am interested in studies of population variations as studied through isozymes.

Selected Publications

  1. Vitt, DH.  2005.  Peatlands:  Canada’s past and future carbon legacy, pp. 201-216.  In: Bhatti, J; Lal, R; Price, M; Apps, MJ (eds.).  Climate Change and Carbon in Managed Forests.  CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
  2. Vitt, DH, LA Halsey, and BJ Nicholson.  2005.  The Mackenzie River basin wetland complex, pp. 218-254.  In: LH Fraser and PA Kelly (eds.).  The World’s Largest Wetlands: Their Ecology and Conservation.  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
  3. Locky, DA, SE Bayley and DH Vitt.  2005.  The vegetational ecology of black spruce swamps, fens, and bogs in southern Boreal Manitoba, Canada.  Wetlands 25: 564-582.
  4. Benscoter, BW, RK Wieder and DH Vitt.  2005.  Association of post-fire accumulation and microtopography in boreal bogs.  Canadian Journal of Forest Research 35: 2188-2193.
  5. Benscoter, BW, DH Vitt and RK Wieder.  2005.  Linking microtopography with post-fire succession in Canadian bogs.  Journal of Vegetation Science 16: 453-460.
  6. Newmaster, SG, RJ Belland, A Arsenault, DH Vitt and TR Stephens.  2005.  The ones we left behind: Comparing plot sampling and floristic habitat sampling for estimating bryophyte diversity.  Diversity and Distributions 11: 57-72.
  7. Vitt, DH., LA. Halsey, J Bray and A Kinser. 2003. Patterns of bryophyte richness in a complex boreal landscape: Identifying key habitats at McClelland Lake wetland. The Bryologist 106: 372-382.
  8. Vitt, DH., LA Halsey, K Wieder and M Turetsky. 2003. Response of Sphagnum fuscum to nitrogen deposition: A case study of ombrogenous peatlands in Alberta, Canada. The Bryologist 106: 235-245.
  9. Yu, Z, DH Vitt, ID. Campbell and MJ. Apps. 2003. Understanding Holocene peat accumulation pattern of continental fens in western Canada. Canadian Journal of Botany 81: 267-282.
  10. Yu, Z, ID Campbell, C Campbell, DH Vitt, GC Bond and MJ Apps. 2003. Carbon sequestration in western Canadian peat highly sensitive to Holocene wet-dry climate cycles at millennial timescales. The Holocene 13: 801-808.
  11. Bauer, IE and DH Vitt. 2003. Autogenic succession and its importance for the peatlands of Canada's western boreal forest, pp. 179-187. In: A Bauerochse and H Haßmann eds. Peatlands, Archaeological Sites - Archives Of Nature - Nature Conservation - Wise Use. Proceedings of the Peatland Conference 2002 in Hannover, Germany. Hannover, Germany.
  12. Bauer, IE, LD Gignac and DH. Vitt. 2003. Development of a peatland complex in boreal western Canada: lateral site expansion and local variability in vegetation succession and long-term peat accumulation. Canadian Journal of Botany 81: 833-847.
  13. Heinlen, E and DH Vitt. 2003. Patterns of rarity in mosses of the Okanogan Highlands of Washington State: An emerging coarse filter approach to rare moss conservation. The Bryologist 106: 34-52.

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Last updated: 25-Sept-07 / dln