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Carolyn W. Burns

Carolyn W. Burns

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
45
Citations
8131
World Ranking
4835
National Ranking
59

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1993 - Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand

Overview

Carolyn W. Burns is affiliated with the University of Otago in New Zealand and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science. Their research spans a variety of subfields, including Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Water Science and Technology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The main topics explored in their work focus on:

  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
  • Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity

Burns has published research in multiple scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Limnology and Oceanography
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • FEMS Microbiology Ecology
  • Frontiers in Energy Research
  • Inland Waters

Key recent papers by Burns include:

  • "The rapid, mass invasion of New Zealand by North American Daphnia "pulex"" (2021, Limnology and Oceanography)
  • "Metabarcoding Reveals Lacustrine Picocyanobacteria Respond to Environmental Change Through Adaptive Community Structuring" (2021, Frontiers in Microbiology)
  • "Spatial abundance and distribution of picocyanobacterial communities in two contrasting lakes revealed using environmental DNA metabarcoding" (2021, FEMS Microbiology Ecology)
  • "Multiscale Shear Properties and Flow Performance of Milled Woody Biomass" (2022, Frontiers in Energy Research)
  • "Isolation and characterisation of monoclonal picocyanobacterial strains from contrasting New Zealand lakes" (2022, Inland Waters)

Burns collaborates frequently with a range of co-authors. Notable frequent collaborators include:

  • Susanna A. Wood
  • Lena Schallenberg
  • John K. Pearman
  • Andrew Rees
  • Zhiqiang Ye

In recognition of their contributions, Burns was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1993.

Best Publications

  • THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BODY SIZE OF FILTER‐FEEDING CLADOCERA AND THE MAXIMUM SIZE OF PARTICLE INGESTED

    Carolyn W. Burns

  • The Size-Efficiency Hypothesis and the Size Structure of Zooplankton Communities

    Donald J. Hall;Stephen T. Threlkeld;Carolyn W. Burns;Philip H. Crowley

  • Biological drivers of zooplankton patchiness.

    Carol L. Folt;Carolyn W. Burns

  • RELATION BETWEEN FILTERING RATE, TEMPERATURE, AND BODY SIZE IN FOUR SPECIES OF DAPHNIA

    Carolyn W. Burns

  • The paradox of diatom-copepod interactions

    S. Ban;C. Burns;J. Castel;Y. Chaudron

  • Consequences of climate-induced salinity increases on zooplankton abundance and diversity in coastal lakes

    Marc Schallenberg;Catherine J. Hall;Carolyn W. Burns

  • Effects of sediment resuspension on phytoplankton production: teasing apart the influences of light, nutrients and algal entrainment

    Marc Schallenberg;Carolyn W. Burns

  • COMPARISON OF FILTERING RATES OF DAPHNIA ROSEA IN LAKE WATER AND IN SUSPENSIONS OF YEAST1

    Carolyn W. Burns;F. H. Rigler

  • Direct Observations of Mechanisms Regulating Feeding Behavior of Daphnia, in Lakewater

    Carolyn W. Burns

  • Trophic structure in the pelagial of 25 shallow New Zealand lakes: changes along nutrient and fish gradients

    Erik Jeppesen;Torben L. Lauridsen;Stuart F. Mitchell;Kirsten Christoffersen

  • Linking Land-use, Water Body Type and Water Quality in Southern New Zealand

    Lisa M. Galbraith;Carolyn W. Burns

  • Effects of crowding and different food levels on growth and reproductive investment of Daphnia

    Carolyn W. Burns

  • Crowding-induced changes in growth, reproduction and morphology of Daphnia.

    Carolyn W. Burns

  • Effects of daphnid size and density on interference between Daphnia and Keratella cochlearis1

    Carolyn W. Burns;John J. Gilbert

  • Relative impacts of copepods, cladocerans and nutrients on the microbial food web of a mesotrophic lake

    Carolyn W. Burns;Marc Schallenberg

  • Dominance and compensatory growth in phytoplankton communities under salinity stress

    Sabine Flöder;Sybill Jaschinski;Gudrun Wells;Carolyn W. Burns

  • A comparison of the trophic transfer of fatty acids in freshwater plankton by cladocerans and calanoid copepods

    Carolyn W. Burns;Michael T. Brett;Marc Schallenberg

  • Do planktivorous fish structure the zooplankton communities in New Zealand lakes

    Erik Jeppesen;Torben Lauridsen;Stuart F. Mitchell;Carolyn W. Burns

  • Mortality and growth responses of Daphnia carinata to increases in temperature and salinity

    Catherine J. Hall;Carolyn W. Burns

  • Responses of lake phytoplankton to micronutrient enrichment: a study in two New Zealand lakes and an analysis of published data

    Theresa M. Downs;Marc Schallenberg;Carolyn W. Burns

  • Effects of the epizoic ciliate, Epistylis daphniae, on growth reproduction and mortality of Boeckella triarticulata (Thomson) (Copepoda : Calanoida)

    Zhenkang Xu;Carolyn W. Burns

Frequent Co-Authors

John J. Gilbert
John J. Gilbert Dartmouth College
Erik Jeppesen
Erik Jeppesen Aarhus University
Torben L. Lauridsen
Torben L. Lauridsen Aarhus University
Michael T. Brett
Michael T. Brett University of Washington
Kirsten Christoffersen
Kirsten Christoffersen University of Copenhagen
Adrianna Ianora
Adrianna Ianora Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Shin-ichi Uye
Shin-ichi Uye Hiroshima University
Ruben Escribano
Ruben Escribano University of Concepción
Jeffrey A. Runge
Jeffrey A. Runge University of Maine
Michael Lynch
Michael Lynch Arizona State University

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