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University of Wisconsin-Madison

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J u l i a B u r t o n

Graduate Research Assistant (PhD)

Research Interests

I am broadly interested in the interactions among disturbance, climate, resource availability, the characteristics of individual species, and patterns of vegetation over space and time. My current research on the Flambeau Experiment focuses on the direct and indirect effects of experimental forest canopy gaps on understory plant community dynamics. Previously, I compared the structure and composition of sugar maple-dominated stands with a minimal logging history to younger second-growth stands that were heavily logged.

Current Projects

Effects of forest canopy gaps on biodiversity and ecosystem processes in northern hardwood forest understories

Background

2004 MS Forest Ecology and Silviculture, University of Minnesota
2002 BS Forestry, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

Contact

120 Russell Labs, 1630 Linden Drive
Madison, WI 53706
phone: 608-265-6321
fax: 608-262-9922
email: jiburton_AT_wisc_DOT_edu

P u b l i c a t i o n s

Burton, J.I., Zenner, E.K., Frelich, L.E. and M.W. Cornett. 2009. Patterns of plant community structure within and among primary and second-growth northern hardwood forest stands. Forest Ecology and Management 258: 2556-2568.

Burton, J.I., Zenner, E.K. and L.E. Frelich. 2008. Frost crack incidence in northern hardwood forests of the southern boreal - north temperate transition zone. Northern Journal of Applied Forestry 25(3): 133-138.

Lain, E.J., Haney, A., Burris, J.M. and J. Burton. 2008. Response of vegetation and birds to severe wind disturbance and salvage logging in a southern boreal forest. Forest Ecology and Management 256(5): 863-871.

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