SHORT CURRICULUM VITAE
JULIA I. BURTON
Department of Forest Ecosystems & Society
Oregon State University
321 Richardson Hall
Corvallis, OR 97331
E-mail: julia.burton@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737 - 6194
Fax: (541) 737 - 1393
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. 2011 University of Wisconsin-Madison
Thesis: Pattern, process, and diversity in ground-layer plant communities of north
temperate forests.
Advisor: David Mladenoff
M.S. 2004 University of Minnesota
Thesis: A Comparison of Primary and Second-Growth Forests on the North Shore of
Lake Superior, Minnesota, U.S.A.
Co - advisors: Lee Frelich and Eric Zenner
B.S. 2002 University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Major: Forest Ecosystem Mgmt. & Restoration, Minor: Conservation Biology
Research project: Short-term Response of Vegetation to Severe Wind and Salvage
Logging in the Southern Boreal Forest.
Advisor: Alan Haney
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.
Dyer, J.H., S.T. Gower, J.A. Forrester, C.G. Lorimer, D.J. Mladenoff and J.I. Burton. 2010.
Effects of selection tree harvests on aboveground biomass and productivity of a secondgrowth northern hardwood forest. 2010. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 40(12):23602369.
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.
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 & Management 258:2556 – 2568.
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.
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.
PROFFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
Ecological Society of America
International Association for Landscape Ecology
Society of American Foresters
International Association for Vegetation Science
GUEST LECTURER:
Principles of Landscape Ecology, UW-Madison, Dept. Forest & Wildlife Ecology
Managing Forest Ecosystems, University of Minnesota, Dept. of Forest Resources
Dendrology, University of Minnesota, Department of Forest Resources
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT PROJECT MENTORING:
Jessica Guo, Columbia University, Inter- and intra-specific functional trait response to
environmental change in an herbaceous forest understory. 2008-2010. Senior thesis project.
Tamara Baker, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Effects of deer exclusion on plant height
and reproductive allocation of four species of forest herbs. 2009-2010.
Angela Rein, Edgewood College – Partitioning of forest soil moisture gradients by fern species.
2008. Flambeau Experiment Internship Project.
Christine Dahlheimer, UW-Eau Claire - Plasticity of plant functional traits across a canopy
openness gradient. 2007. Flambeau Experiment Internship Project.
Melissa Faigeles, University of Pittsburgh – Effects of gaps on reproductive allocation of forest
herbs. 2007. Flambeau Experiment Internship Project.
SPECIAL TRAINING:
Structural Equation Modeling using Bayesian Methods (2010)
Teaching in the College Classroom (Delta Program in Research, Teaching & Learning) (2009)
Introduction to Landscape Genetics (2008)
An Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling (2007)
PC-ORD workshop in Multivariate Statistics (2003)
Tropical Ecology course in Costa Rica (2002)
Extensive training session in forest, soil, water & wildlife field methods (2001)
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