2024

Medeiros, J.S., J. H. Burns, C. Dowrey, F. Duong, and S. Speroff. 2024. Leaf habit and plant architecture integrate whole-plant economics and contextualize trait-climate associations within ecologically diverse genus Rhododendron. AoB PLANTS. plae005. https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plae005 

2023

Sirivat, Danielle, Satu Ramula, and Jean H. Burns. in press. Soil biota in a nonnative range has a net positive effect on Lupinus polyphyllus. Ohio Journal of Science. 123(2): 2-13. https://doi.org/10.18061/ojs.v123i2.XXXX

Gascoigne, Samuel J L, Simon Rolph, Daisy Sankey, Nagalakshmi Nidadavolu, Adrian S Stell Picman, Christina M Hernandez, Matthew E R Philpott, Aiyla Salam, Connor Bernard, Erola Fenollosa, Young Jun Lee, Jessie McLean, Shathuki Hetti Achchige Perera, Oliver G Spacey, Maja Kajin, Anna C Vinton, C. Ruth Archer, Jean H Burns, Danielle L Buss, Hal Caswell, Judy P Che-Castaldo, Dylan Z Childs, Pol Capdevila, Aldo Compagnoni, Elizabeth Crone, Thomas H G Ezard, Dave Hodgson, Tiffany M Knight, Owen R Jones, Eelke Jongejans, Jenni McDonald, Brigitte Tenhumberg, Chelsea C Thomas, Andrew J Tyre, Satu Ramula, Iain Stott, Raymond L Tremblay, Phil Wilson, James W Vaupel, Rob Salguero-Gomez. 2023. A standard protocol to report discrete stage-structured demographic information. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 14: 2065–2083. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14164

Liu, Yu, David J. Burke, Juliana S. Medeiros, Sarah R. Carrino-Kyker, Jean H. Burns 2023. Phosphite indirectly mediates protection against root rot disease via altering soil fungal community in Rhododendron species. Plant and Soil. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-023-06129-w

Data archived at: The data is archived in Open Science Framework (OSF): OSF | Phosphite indirectly mediates protection against root rot disease via altering soil fungal community in Rhododendron species. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/HU35A.

Yu Liu 3, Yu-Long Zheng 4 , Lydia V. Jahn 2 , Jean H. Burns. 2023. Invaders responded more positively to soil biota than native or noninvasive introduced species, consistent with enemy escape. Biological Invasions. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-022-02919-y

Data archived at: DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/P7WVQ

2022

Ósvaldsson 3, Anna, Maddelana K. Chesler 5, Jean H. Burns. 2022. Effects of snow on reproduction of perennial Thalictrum dioicum: Plants survive but seedlings fail to recruit with reduced snow cover. American Journal of Botany. 109(3): 406-418. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1829

Data archived at: DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/Q9V8S

Highlighted by the editor. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1832

2021

Rodger, J. G., J. M. Bennett, J.M., M.  Razanajatovo,  T. M. Knight, M. van Kleunen, T-L. Ashman, J. A. Steets, C. Hui, G. Arceo-Gómez, M. Burd, L. A. Burkle, J. H. Burns, W. Durka, L. Freitas, J. E. Kemp, J. Li, A. Pauw, J. C. Vamosi, M. Wolowski, J. Xia, and A. G. Ellis. 2021.. Widespread vulnerability of plant seed production to pollinator declines. Science Advances. 7: eabd3524.

Compagnoni, Aldo, Sam Levin, Dylan Childs, William Harpole, Maria Paniw, Gesa Römer, Jean H. Burns, Judy Che-Castaldo, Nadja Rüger, Georges kunstler, Joanne Bennett, C. Ruth Archer, Owen Jones, Roberto Salguero-Gómez, and Tiffany Knight. 2021. Herbaceous perennial plants with short generation time have stronger responses to climate anomalies than those with longer generation time. Nature Communications.12(1): 1824.

#NCOMMS-20-26626B

Paniw, Maria, Tamora James, C. Ruth Archer, Gesa Römer, Sam Levin, Aldo Compagnoni, Judy Che-Costaldo, Joanne Bennett, Andrew Mooney, Dylan Childs, Arpat Ozgul, Owen Jones, Jean H. Burns, Andrew Beckerman, Abir Patwary, Nora Sanchez-Gassen, Tiffany Knight, Roberto Salguero-Gómez. 2021. The myriad of complex demographic responses of terrestrial mammals to climate change and gaps of knowledge: A global analysis.  Journal of Animal Ecology. 90(6): 1398-1407. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13467

Medeiros, Juliana S; Mann, Michael A; Burns, Jean H.; Kyker, Sarah; Burke, David. 2021. Host ancestry and morphology differentially influence bacterial and fungal community structure of Rhododendron leaves, roots, and soil. Botany. 100(5): 449-460. doi.org/10.1139/cjb-2021-0104

Liu, Yu, Juliana S. Medeiros, Jean H. Burns. 2021. The soil microbes protect Rhododendron from the oomycete pathogen root rot (Phytophthora cinnamomi). Journal of American Rhododendron Society. 75(4): 199-202.

Yu-long Zheng, Jean H. Burns, Rui-fang Wang, An-du Yang, Yu-long Feng. 2021. Identity recognition and the invasion of exotic plant. Flora. 280: 151828. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.flora.2021.151828.

Cope, Colin G.3, Sarah R. Eysenbach, Alexandra S. Faidiga2, Constance E. Hausman, Juliana S. Medeiros, Jennifer E. Murphy3, and Jean H. Burns. 2021. Potential interactive effects between invasive Lumbricus terrestris earthworms and the invasive plant Alliaria petiolata on a native plant Podophyllum peltatum in northeastern Ohio, USA. AoB PLANTS. 13(1): 1-10. plaa073. DOI: 10.1093/aobpla/plaa073

Liu3, Yu, Juliana S. Medeiros, Jean H. Burns. 2021. The soil biotic community protects Rhododendron spp. across multiple clades from the oomycete Phytophthora cinnamomi at a cost to plant growth. Oecologia.195: 1-12.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-020-04762-1

Highlighted Student Research

Data: DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/G6RJP

          "Best Graduate Research Paper" by the Department of Biology,  CWRU.

2020

Bennett, Joanne, Janette Steets, Jean H. Burns, Laura Burkle, Jana Vamosi, Marina Wolowski, Gerardo Arceo-Gómez, Martin Burd, Walter Durka, Allen Ellis, Dr. Leandro Freitas, Junmin Li, James Rodger, Valentin Ştefan, Jing Xia, Tiffany Knight, Tia-Lynn Ashman. 2020. Land use and pollinator dependency drives global patterns of pollen limitation in the Anthropocene. Nature Communications. 11: 3999. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17751-y

Blog post here: https://go.nature.com/2CcZbkw.

Zheng4, Yu-long, Jean H. Burns, Zhi-yong Liao, Wei-tao Li, Long Li. 2020. Nutrient fluctuation has different effects on a tropical invader in communities from the native and non-native range. Environmental and Experimental Botany. 178: 104193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envexpbot.2020.104193

Lance3,  Andrew C. David J. Burke, Constance E. Hausman, Jean H. Burns. 2020. High throughput sequencing provides insight into manipulated soil fungal community structure and diversity during temperate forest restoration. Restoration Ecology. 28(S4): S365-S372 DOI:10.1111/rec.13120

Data: DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/RV7JT

Che-Castaldo, Judy, Owen R. Jones, Bruce E. Kendall, Jean H. Burns, Dylan Z. Childs, Thomas H. G. Ezard, Haydee Hernandez-Yanez, David J. Hodgson, Eelke Jongejans, Tiffany Knight, Cory Merow, Satu Ramula, Iain Stott, Yngvild Vindenes, Hiroyuki Yokomizo, Roberto Salguero-Gómez. 2019. Comments to “Persistent problems in the construction of matrix population models". Ecological Modelling. 416: 108913. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2019.108913

Lance3, Andrew C., Sarah R. Carrino-Kyker, David J. Burke, Jean H. Burns. 2020. Individual plant-soil feedback effects influence tree growth and rhizosphere fungal communities in a temperate forest restoration experiment. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 7: 500. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2019.00500

Data archiving: https://osf.io/cv9kf/

Medeiros, Juliana S., Charlotte R. Hewins, Aaron Baumgardner, Jean H. Burns. 2020. From many, one: investigating the influence of evolutionary history, phenology and plant architecture on leaf-xylem relationships across ecologically diverse genus Rhododendron. International Journal of Plant Sciences. 181(1):103–115.

            Invited.

2019

Burke, David J. Sarah Kyker, Jean H. Burns. 2019. Is it Climate or chemistry? Soil fungal communities respond more strongly to soil nutrients in a multi-year high resolution analysis. Ecosphere. 10(10): e02896. DOI:10.1002/ecs2.2896

Murphy 3, J.E.   and J.H. Burns. 2019. Rosa multiflora’s performance under water stress: the role of positive and negative density-dependent intra-specific interactions. Plant Ecology. 220:951–963.

Burns, Jean H., Joanne M. Bennett, Junmin Li, Jing Xia, Gerardo Arceo-Gómez, Martin Burd, Laura A. Burkle, Walter Durka, Allan G. Ellis, Leandro Freitas, James G. Rodger, Jana C. Vamosi, Marina Wolowski, Tia-Lynn Ashman, Tiffany M. Knight, and Janette A. Steets. 2019. Plant traits moderate pollen limitation of introduced and native plants: a phylogenetic meta-analysis. New Phytologist. 223(4): 2063–2075 doi: 10.1111/nph.15935

Lance3, Andrew C. David J. Burke, Constance E. Hausman, Jean H. Burns. 2019. Microbial inoculation influences arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi community structure and nutrient dynamics in temperate tree restoration. Restoration Ecology. 27(5): 1084–1093.

Data: DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/R7KDV

Burns, Jean H., Jennifer E. Murphy3, and Yu-Long Zheng 4. 2019. Tests of alternative evolutionary models are needed to enhance our understanding of biological invasions. New Phytologist. 222(2): 701-707.

Invited review: “Tansley Insight”

Cope3, Colin G. and Jean H. Burns. 2019. Effects of native deer on invasive earthworms depend on earthworm functional feeding group and correlate with earthworm body size. Forest Ecology and Management. 435: 180-186.

Medeiros, Juliana S., Yu Liu3, and Jean H. Burns. 2019. The Unique Value of Genus Rhododendron for Investigating the Evolutionary Ecology of Root-microbe Interactions. Rhododendrons International. 3: 66-81.

2018

Bennett, J. M., J. A. Steets, J. H. Burns, W. Durka, J. C. Vamosi, G. Arceo-Gómez, M. Burd, L. A. Burkle, A. G. Ellis, L. Freitas, J. Li, J. G. Rodger, M. Wolowski, J. Xia, T-L. Ashman, T. M. Knight. 2018. GloPL: Global data base on pollen limitation of plant reproduction. Nature: Scientific Data 5: 180249.

Knight, T. M. T-L. Ashman, J. M. Bennett, J. H. Burns, S. Passonneau, J. A. Steets. 2018. Reflections on, and visions for, the changing field of Pollination Ecology. Ecology Letters. 21(8): 1282-1295. doi: 10.1111/ele.13094

Zheng 4, Yu-Long, Jean H. Burns, Zhi-yong Liao, Yang-ping Li, Jie Yang, Ya-jun Chen, Jiao-lin Zhang, Yu-guo Zheng. 2018. Species composition, functional and phylogenetic distances correlate with success of invasive Chromolaena odorata in an experimental test. Ecology Letters. 21(8): 1211-1220. doi: 10.1111/ele.13090

Afkhami*, Michelle E., D. Luke Mahler*, Jean H. Burns*, Marjorie G. Weber, Martin F. Wojciechowski, Janet Sprent, and Sharon Y. Strauss*. 2018. Symbioses with nitrogen-fixing bacteria: Nodulation and phylogenetic data across legume genera. Ecology. 99(2):502. doi: 10.1002/ecy.2110.

*indicates authors contributed equally

2017

Medeiros, Juliana S. Jean H. Burns, Jaynell Nicholson, Louisa Rogers, and Oscar Valverde-Barrantes. 2017. Decoupled leaf and root carbon economics is a key component in the ecological diversity and evolutionary divergence of deciduous and evergreen lineages of genus Rhododendron. American Journal of Botany. 104(6): 803-816. doi: 10.3732/ajb.170005

'Editor's Choice'

Sweet 2, Drake D. and Jean H. Burns. 2017.  Plant performance was greater in the soils of more distantly related plants for an herbaceous understory species. AoB PLANTS.DOI 10.1093/aobpla/plx005

    Data archiving: Data Dryad: Sweet 2, Drake D. and Jean H. Burns. 2017. Data from: Plant performance was greater in the soils of more distantly related plants for an herbaceous understory pecies. Dryad Digital Repository. doi:10.5061/dryad.6528d

Burns, Jean H., Angela J. Brandt 1, Jennifer E. Murphy3, Angela M. Kaczowka 2, David J. Burke. 2017. Spatial heterogeneity of plant-soil feedbacks increases per capita reproductive biomass of species at an establishment disadvantage. Oecologia. 183: 1077-1086. DOI: 10.1007/s00442-017-3828-1

    Data archiving: Data Dryad: Burns, Jean H., Angela J. Brandt 1, Jennifer E. Murphy 3, Angela M. Kaczowka 2, David J. Burke. 2017. Data from: Spatial heterogeneity of plant-soil feedbacks increases per capita reproductive biomass of species at an establishment disadvantage. Dryad Digital Repository. doi:10.5061/dryad.h0p04

2016

Murphy3, Jennifer E., Jean H. Burns, Marie Fougère-Danezan, Rebecca E. Drenovsky. 2016. Functional traits values, not trait plasticity, drive the invasiveness of Rosa spp. in response to light availability. American Journal of Botany. 103(12): 2058-2069. doi: 10.3732/ajb.1600235

'Editor's Choice'

2015

Burns, Jean H., Brian L. Anacker, Sharon Y. Strauss, David J. Burke. 2015. Soil microbial community variation correlates most strongly with plant species identity, followed by soil chemistry, spatial location and plant genus. AoB PLANTS. plv030. doi: 10.1093/aobpla/plv030

'Editor's Choice'

del Pino 2, Gaston, Angela J. Brandt 1, and Jean H. Burns. 2015. Light heterogeneity interacts with plant-induced soil heterogeneity to affect plant trait expression. Plant Ecology. 216(3): 439-450. DOI 10.1007/s11258-015-0448-x

Brandt, Angela J., S. Conor Leahy 2, Nicole M. Zimmerman 2 and Jean H. Burns. 2015. Plant trait expression responds to establishment timing and depends on soil environment. Oecologia. 178: 525–536. DOI 10.1007/s00442-014-3216-z

2014

Burns, Jean H. 2014. To what degree are invaders drivers or passengers of phylogenetic community structure? Journal of Vegetation Science. 25(6): 1311–1312.

Burns, Jean H. and Angela J. Brandt 1. 2014. Heterogeneity in plant–soil feedbacks and resident population dynamics affect mutual invasibility. Journal of Ecology. 102: 1048–1057. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12258

Data archiving: Data Dryad:

    Burns, J.H. & Brandt 1, A.J. 2014. Data from: Heterogeneity in plant-soil feedbacks and resident population dynamics affect mutual invasibility. Dryad Digital Repository, doi: 10.5061/dryad.gj7hb.

Brandt 1, Angela J., Gaston del Pino 2, Jean H. Burns. 2014. Experimental protocol for manipulating plant-induced soil heterogeneity. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 85: e51580, doi: 10.3791/51580.

2013

Burns, Jean H., Eleanor A. Pardini, Michele R. Schutzenhofer, Y. Anny Chung 2, Katie J. Seidler 2, and Tiffany M. Knight. 2013. Greater fecundity contributes to the population growth of invasive plants in comparison with their noninvasive relatives. Ecology. 94(5): 995–1004. doi: 10.1890/12-1310.1

http://www.esajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1890/12-1310.1

Data registry: http://data.esa.org/

Data archiving: http://www.demogr.mpg.de/ Contact for the database: Roberto Salguero-Gomez.

Brandt 1, Angela J., Hans de Kroon, Heather L. Reynolds, and Jean H. Burns. 2013. Soil heterogeneity generated by plant-soil feedbacks has implications for species recruitment and coexistence. Journal of Ecology. 101(2): 277–286.

DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12042

Link to the Special Feature in the Journal of Ecology on Plant-Soil Feedbacks.

2012 

Burns, Jean H. and Sharon Y. Strauss.  2012. Effects of competition on phylogenetic signal and phenotypic plasticity in plant functional traits.  Ecology. 93(8) Supplement, S126–S137.

Data: DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/YB5GS

DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/CB6X5

2011

Burns, Jean H. and Sharon Y. Strauss.  2011.  More closely related species are more ecologically similar in an experimental test.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  108(13): 5302–5307.

Discussion: 12 September 2011 Check out Scarcozona's blog for an interview with Jean at ESA in 2011. 29 April 2011 Mark Cadotte's EEB and Flow blog entry on niche conservatism. 14 March 2011 Science Daily featured an article on our work at Bodega Bay.

Burns, Jean H.  2011. Research perspective: a promising way forward in determining weediness and invasiveness of newly- introduced species. Topics in Canadian Weed Science. Volume 9.  ed by. Hugh J. Beckie and Linda M. Hall.

Burns, Jean H., Robert B. Faden, and Scott J. Steppan. 2011. Phylogenetic studies in the Commelinaceae subfamily Commelinoideae inferred from Nuclear Ribosomal and Chloroplast DNA Sequences. Systematic Botany. 36(2): 268–276.

This article has been sited by the Hadwen Arboretum Project.

Burns, Jean H., Tia-Lynn Ashman, Janette A. Steets, Alexandra Harmon-Threat, and Tiffany M. Knight. 2011. A phylogenetically controlled analysis of the roles of reproductive traits in plant invasions. Oecologia. 166(4): 1009–1017.

2010

Yvonne M. Buckley, Satu Ramula, Simon P. Blomberg, Jean H. Burns, Elizabeth E. Crone, Johan Ehrlén, Tiffany M. Knight, Jean-Baptiste Pichancourt, Helen Quested, and Glenda M. Wardle.  2010.  Causes and consequences of variation in plant population growth rate: a synthesis of matrix population models in a phylogenetic context.  Ecology Letters. 13: 1182–1197.

Burns, Jean H., Simon P. Blomberg, Elizabeth E. Crone, Johan Ehrlén, Tiffany M. Knight, Jean-Baptiste Pichancourt, Satu Ramula, Glenda M. Wardle and Yvonne M. Buckley.  2010.  Empirical tests of life-history evolution theory using phylogenetic analysis of plant demography. Journal of Ecology. 1–11.

2009

Harmon-Threatt 2, Alexandra N., Jean H. Burns, Lyudmila A. Shemyakina 2, and Tiffany M. Knight. 2009. Breeding system and pollination ecology of introduced plants compared to their native relatives. American Journal of Botany. 96: 1544–1550.

Miller, Thomas E., Jean H. Burns, and Casey P. terHorst. 2009. The ghost of competition present. The American Naturalist. 173: 347–353.

2008

Ramula, Satu, Tiffany M. Knight, Jean H. Burns, and Yvonne M. Buckley. 2008. General guidelines for invasive plant management based on comparative demography of invasive and native plant populations. Journal of Applied Ecology. 45: 1124–1133.

Burns, Jean H., Pablo Munguia, Benjamin E. Nomann, Sarah J. Braun, Casey P. terHorst and Thomas E. Miller. 2008.Vegetative morphology and trait correlations in 54 species of Commelinaceae. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society.158: 257–268.

Burns, Jean H. 2008. Demographic performance predicts invasiveness of species in the Commelinaceae under high nutrient conditions. Ecological Applications. 18(2): 335–346.

2007

Miller, T. E., Jean H. Burns, Pablo Munguia, Eric L. Walters, Jamie M. Kneitel, Paul Richards, Nicholas Mouquet, and Hannah Buckley. 2007. Evaluating support for the resource-ratio hypothesis: a reply to Wilson et al. The American Naturalist. 169(5): 707–708.

Burns, Jean H., Stacey L. Halpern, and Alice A. Winn. 2007. A test for a cost of opportunism in invasive species in the Commelinaceae. Biological Invasions. 9: 213–225.

data archiving: data dryad. DOI: 10.5061/dryad.8107q

2006

Burns, Jean H. 2006. Relatedness and environment affect traits associated with invasive and noninvasive introduced Commelinaceae. Ecological Applications.16(4): 1367–1376.

Burns, Jean H. and Alice A. Winn. 2006. Are invasive species more plastic? A comparison of plastic responses to competition by invasive and noninvasive congeners in the Commelinaceae. Biological Invasions. 8:797–807.

The data in this paper has been used in the meta-analysis by Davidson et al. 2011.

Data is archived at OSF: DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/85F32

2005

Miller, Thomas E., Jean H. Burns, Pablo Munguia, Eric L. Walters, Jamie M. Kneitel, Paul Richards, Nicholas Mouquet, and Hannah Buckley. 2005. A Critical Review of Twenty Years' Use of the Resource-ratio Theory. The American Naturalist. 165: 439–448.

2004

Buckley, Hannah, Jean H. Burns, Jamie M. Kneitel, Eric L. Walters, Pablo Munguia, and Thomas E. Miller. 2004. Small-scale patterns in community structure of Sarracenia pururea inquilines. Community Ecology. 5(2): 181–188.

Burns, Jean H. and Thomas E. Miller. 2004. Invasion of Chinese Tallow (Sapium sebiferum) in the Lake Jackson area, northern Florida. American Midland Naturalist. 152: 410–417.

Burns, Jean H. 2004. A comparison of invasive and non-invasive dayflowers (Commelinaceae) across experimental nutrient and water gradients. Diversity and Distributions. 10: 387–397.

The data in this paper has been used in the meta-analysis by Davidson et al. 2011.

2002

Miller, Thomas E., Jamie M. Kneitel, and Jean H. Burns. 2002. Effect of community structure on invasion success and rate. Ecology. 83: 898–905.