College of Forestry
Burton, Julia
Research Associate
Specialty:
Forest Community and Landscape Ecology; Silviculture; Spatial Pattern Analysis
Educational Background:
B.S. University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point, 2002
M.S. University of Minnesota, 2004
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin – Madison, 2011
Research Interests:
- Role of disturbance in maintaining diversity
- Overstory-understory linkages
- Role of plant traits in driving plant community structure and function
- Effects of natural and anthropogenic disturbance on forest resistance and resilience
Current/Recent Programs:
- Density Management Study
- Effects of riparian buffers and interannual climate variability on the surface flow of headwater streams
- Experimental Manipulation of Forest Structure
- Quantifying reference conditions for the restoration of old-growth structures to younger second-growth northern hardwoods
- Linking disturbance, forest dynamics and songbird communities in the southern boreal forest
Selected Publications:
- Burton, J.I., D.J. Mladenoff, M.K. Clayton and J.A. Forrester. 2011. The roles of environmental filtering and colonization in the fine-scale spatial patterning of ground-layer plant communities in north temperate deciduous forests. Journal of Ecology. 99(3):764-776. PDF
- Dyer, J.H., S.T. Gower, J.A. Forrester, C.G. Lorimer, D.J. Mladenoff and J.I. Burton. Effects of selective tree harvests on aboveground biomass and productivity of a second-growth northern hardwood forest. 2010. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 40(12):2360-2369. PDF
- Foster, J.R., J.I. Burton, J.A. Forrester, F. Liu, J.D. Muss, F.M. Sabatini, R.M. Scheller and D.J. Mladenoff. 2010. Evidence for a recent increase in forest growth is questionable Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107(21): E86-E87. doi:10.1073/pnas.1002725107. PDF
- Burton, J.I., E.K. Zenner, L.E. Frelich, 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. PDF
- Burton, J.I., E.K. Zenner 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: 133-138. PDF
- Lain E.J., A. Haney, J.M. Burris and J. Burton. 2008. Response of vegetation and birds to severe wind disturbance and salvage logging in a southern boreal forest. Forest Ecology & Management. 256:863-871. PDF