2026

Shetzer MK, SC Danielson, L Sack, C Scoffoni and JS Medeiros. In Press. Environmental influences and coordination of Rhododendron carbon and water economics at leaf and species scales. Functional Plant Biology https://doi.org/10.1071/FP25222

Shetzer MK, E Farley and JS Medeiros. In Press. Rhododendron minus seedlings achieve similar performance across light environments with anthocyanin accumulation and architectural adjustments under light stress AoB PLANTS https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plag008  

2025

Ahmad S, Burke DJ, Carrino-Kyker SR, Medeiros JS, and Burns JH (2025). Fungal communities driven by Rhododendron species correlate with pathogen protection. Plant and Soil, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-025-07847-z.

Dunham NT, Bernstein-Kurtycz LM, Manzak J, Muneza AB, Brown MB, Fennessy J, Dennis PM, Kendall CJ, Lukas KE. 2025. Exploring the effects of giraffe skin disease limb lesions on locomotion. Ecology and Evolution, 15: e71774.

Jahn, LV, Carrino-Kyker SR, Busby AR, and Burke DJ (2025) Phosphorous Fertilization and Soil pH Affect the Growth of Deciduous Trees in a Temperate Hardwood Forest. Ecosphere 16(2): e70184. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.70184

Neptune, T.3, Koester, D.C., & Benard, M. 2025. Freeze-tolerant frogs accumulate cryoprotectants using photoperiod: a potential ecological trap. Journal of Animal Ecology, 1-12, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.70125

Ritzler, C.P., Mather, S.V., Johnson, I.T., Dennis, P.M., Lukas, K.E., & Koester, D.C. 2025. Using 3D Photogrammetry to quantify usable space in zoo‐housed primate habitats. American Journal of Primatology, 2025. 87(2):e70002.

Shepherd BL, DJ Burke, KL Stuble (2025) Fagus grandifolia growth and mortality a decade after the emergence of Beech Leaf Disease. Trees, Forests, and People 20: 100836.

Tennant, K. S.1, Less, E. H., Raghanti, M. A., Amendolagine, L. A., Lukas, K. E., Willis, M. A., and Dennis, P. M. 2025. Using an Oral Sugar Test to Biologically Validate the Use of a Commercial Enzyme Immunoassay to Measure Salivary Insulin in Western Lowland Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla). Journal of experimental zoology. Part A, Ecological and integrative physiology, 343(4), 493–501. https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.2907 

2024

Bernstein-Kurtycz, L. M.1,3, Vonk, J., Carroscia, J. M., Koester, D. C., Snyder, R. J., Willis, M. A., & Lukas, K. E. (2024). Lack of reinforcement is hard to “bear”: Assessing judgment bias in grizzly bears (Ursus arctos horribilis). Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science 27(3): 575-588 .

Burke, David J., Caleb Lumsden, Sarah R. Carrino-Kyker, Juliana S. Medeiros, and Sharon C. Danielson3. In press. The phyllosphere microbiome in Tsuga canadensis: Relationships with resistance to the insect Adelges tsugae and effects of the pesticide dinotefuran. Phytobiomes Journal.

Burns, Jean H., Katherine L. Stuble and Juliana S. Medeiros. In press. Living collections: biodiversity cultivated at public gardens has the power to connect ecological questions and evolutionary context. American Journal of Botany.

Carrino-Kyker, Sarah R., Anna L. Parker, Juliana S. Medeiros, Charlotte R. Hewins, Glen R. Novotny, Steve L. Krebs and David J. Burke. 2024. Soil microbial communities alter resource allocation in Fagus grandifolia when challenged with a pathogen. Symbiosis 92: 231-244.

Cryan, Anna2, Yu Liu3, Juliana S. Medeiros and Jean H. Burns. 2024. Leaf discoloration in Rhododendron species exposed to Phytophthora cinnamomi corresponds with future mortality. Journal of Environmental Horticulture 42: 109-116. 

Medeiros, Juliana S., Jean H. Burns, Callie Dowrey, Fiona Duong and Sarah Speroff. 2024. Leaf habit and plant architecture integrate whole-plant economics and contextualize trait-climate associations within ecologically diverse genus Rhododendron. AoB Plants 16: plae005. 

Wagner AS, KL Stuble (2024) Beta diversity and species turnover in communities of newly recruited seedlings following forest management. Forest Ecology & Management 572: 122329.

2023

Bernstein-Kurtycz, L. M.1,3, Dunham, N. T., Evenhuis, J.2, Brown, M. B., Muneza, A. B., Fennessy, J., ... & Lukas, K. E. (2023). Evaluating the effects of giraffe skin disease and wire snare wounds on the gaits of free-ranging Nubian giraffe. Scientific Reports 13(1): 1959.

Danielson, Sharon C.3, Raphaella Mascia, Madison Metzger, Katherine L. Stuble and Juliana S. Medeiros. 2023. Stress-resistant trees are more common in urban than rural forests: A case study of Cleveland, Ohio’s natural parks. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 82: 127864. 

Dunham, N. T., Tennant, K. S.3, Loudon, A. H.1, & Dennis, P. M. (2023). Effects of honey locust seed pods on the behavior and nutrient intake of zoo‐housed François langurs and prehensile‐tailed porcupines. Zoo Biology 42(4): 537-546.

Harbol, Samuel3, Randall W. Long and Juliana S. Medeiros. 2023. Juniperus virginiana sourced from colder climates maintain higher ratios of soluble sugars to starch during cold acclimation. Tree Physiology tpad: 115.

Liu, Yu3, David J. Burke, Juliana S. Medeiros, Sarah R. Carrino-Kyker and Jean H. Burns. 2023. Phosphite indirectly mediates protection against root rot disease via altering soil fungal communities in Rhododendron species. Plant & Soil 491: 467–478. 

Oldfield, Ronald G., Josie E. Thal, Praanjal Das, Nick J. Zarlinga, Kristen E. Lukas, Jason D. Wark. 2023. Agonistic behavior and feeding competition in the largest piranha species, Pygocentrus piraya, in a zoo. Journal of Ethology 41: 25-37.

Plocek, M. R.3, & Dunham, N. T. (2023). Spatiotemporal walking gait kinematics of semi‐arboreal red pandas (Ailurus fulgens). Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology 339(8): 755-766.

Ritzler, C. P.3, Lukas, K. E., Bernstein-Kurtycz, L. M.1,3, & Koester, D. C. (2023). The effects of choice-based design and management on the behavior and space use of zoo-housed amur tigers (Panthera tigris altaica). Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science 26(2): 256-269. 

Wagner AS, KM Mueller, KL Stuble (2023) Overstory thinning impacts fruit production and handling of the nonnative shrub, Rhamnus frangula, in a young temperate forest. Natural Areas Journal 43(4): 261-267.

Wagner AS, SM Petersen, S Carrino-Kyker, M Watson, DJ Burke, KL Stuble (2023) Effect of deer and forest edge on understory plant communities. Natural Areas Journal 43(1): 22-28.

2022

Bernstein‐Kurtycz, L. M. 1,3, Wiatroski, K. G., Leeds, A., & Lukas, K. E. (2022). About pace: How variations in method and definition affect quantification of pacing in bears. Zoo Biology 41: 365-372.

Getsy, P.2, Ritzler, C.3, Becka, K., Gertiser, C., & Koester, D. (2022). The effects of multiple enrichment strategies on the behavior and space use of a zoo-housed emerald tree monitor (Varanus prasinus). BIAWAK 15(1): 22-32.

Hamati, Samia, Juliana S. Medeiros and David Ward4. 2022. Effects of post oak (Quercus stellata) and smooth brome (Bromus inermis) competition on water uptake and root partitioning of eastern red cedar (Juniperus virginiana). PLOS One 18: e0280100.  

Medeiros, Juliana S., Michael A. Mann, Jean H. Burns, Sarah R. Kyker and David J. Burke. 2022. Host ancestry and morphology differentially influence bacterial and fungal community structure of Rhododendron leaves, roots, and soil. Botany 100: 449-460. 

Loudon, A.1, Anderson, K., Krynak, K., Yu, Z., & Dennis, P. (2022). Diet impacts the structure and function of the bacterial community in the gastrointestinal tract of a sloth bear. Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research 10(4): 202-209.

Tennant, K. S.1,3, Dennis, P. M., Less, E. H., & Lukas, K. E. (2022). Prevalence of regurgitation and reingestion and occurrence of coprophagy in the North American AZA Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) population. Zoo Biology 41(2): 176-180.

2021

Bernstein-Kurtycz, L. M.1,3, Koester, D. C., Snyder, R. J., Vonk, J., Willis, M. A., & Lukas, K. E. (2021). Bearly changing with the seasons: Bears of five species show few behavioral changes across seasons and at varying visitor densities. Animal Behavior and Cognition 8(4): 538-557.

Liu, Yu3, Juliana S. Medeiros and 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. 

2020

Lance3,  Andrew C. David J. Burke, Constance E. Hausman, Jean H. Burns. in press. High throughput sequencing provides insight into manipulated soil fungal community structure and diversity during temperate forest restoration. Restoration Ecology. DOI:10.1111/rec.13120

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/

Leeds, A., Good, J., Schook, M. W., Dennis, P. M., Stoinski, T. S., Willis, M. A., & Lukas, K. E. (2020). Evaluating changes in salivary oxytocin and cortisol following positive reinforcement training in two adult male western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla). Zoo Biology 39(1): 51-55.

Medeiros, Juliana S., Charlotte R. Hewins, Aaron Baumgardner, Jean H. Burns. 2020. Shifts in phenology and plant architecture across genus Rhododendron highlight different ways to become more acquisitive despite universally conservative xylem anatomy. 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

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.

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.

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

Monson, Michael L., Patricia M. Dennis, Kristen E. Lukas, Katherine L. Krynak, Sarah R. Carrino-Kyker, David J. Burke, Mandi W. Schook. 2018. The effects of increased hay-to-grain ratio on behavior, metabolic health measures, and fecal bacterial communities in four Masai giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi) at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. Zoo Biology. 37:320–331.  DOI: 10.1002/zoo.21434

2017

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

Krynak, Katherine L., David J. Burke, Ryan A. Martin, and Patricia M. Dennis. 2017. Gut microbiome composition is associated with cardiac disease in zoo-housed western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla). FEMS Microbiology Letters, 364: fnx149. doi: 10.1093/femsle/fnx149

Krynak, Katherine L., David J. Burke, and Michael F. Benard. 2017. Rodeo herbicide negatively affects Blanchard’s Cricket Frogs (Acris blanchardi) survival and alters the skin-associated bacterial community. Journal of Herpetology. 51(3): 402–410.

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'

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'