My primary area of research is physiological ecology, I have also worked on animal behavior, landscape ecology, climate envelope modeling, and survey/manage of amphibians.
I look at how changes within the body can be significant at a landscape scale. My research has focused on species that have been used as indicators for ecosystem dysfunction, in response to human-induced environmental change. I have looked at whole-body ability to flee predators, and stress hormone levels. My work has focused so far on changes within the body in response to human management of forested systems, and also to projections of future climate change.
I have modeled changes from an individual scale up to regional levels. I use R and ArcGIS on a daily basis, as well as incorporating both statistical analyses and field data. I have constructed models of stream temperature based on data I collected on 28 streams, over three years. I also designed and constructed affordable testing chambers that fluctuated water temperature in an environmentally realistic way.
One of my research projects focused on mating behavior in salamanders, another on aggressive interactions between native and introduced turtles. In addition, I have researched behavior as a response to stress as a part of my work on physiological ecology.
I am currently working on lake water quality from satellite images, and finding the best predictive models within this system.
Publications
Doten, K., G.W. Bury, and S.J. Arnold. In press. Courtship in the Torrent Salamander, Rhyacotriton, Has an Ancient and Stable History. Animal Behavior.
Bury, GW, and RB Bury. In press. Biogeography of amphibians and reptiles. In Roth, J. and others (eds.). Geology and Biota of the Klamath - Siskiyou Ecoregion.
Bury, R.B., J.D. Wehr, G.W. Bury, C.L. Baggett and K. Doten. 2015. High incidence of filamentous algae on Western Pond Turtles (Actinemys marmorata) in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. Northwestern Naturalist 95:150-153.
McCallum, M.L. and G.W. Bury. 2014. Google search patterns suggest declining interest in the environment: a response to Ficetola. Biodiversity and Conservation 23:1057-1062.
McCallum, M.L. and G.W. Bury. 2013. Google search patterns suggest declining interest in the environment. Biodiversity and Conservation 22:1355-1367.
Ashton, D.T., K. Beal, G.W. Bury, D.A. Reese, F. Slavens and K. Slavens. 2012. Specialized surveys: nests, hatchlings, and young. Pp. 51-55 In Bury, R.B., H.H. Welsh, Jr. D.J. Germano, and D. Ashton (eds.). 2012. Western Pond Turtle: Biology, Sampling Techniques, Inventory and Monitoring, Conservation and Management. Northwest Fauna 7.
McCallum, M.L. and G.W. Bury. 2013. Google search patterns suggest declining interest in the environment. Biodiversity and Conservation 22:1355-1367.
Bury, R.B., D.J. Germano, and G.W. Bury. 2010. Comparison of the population structure and growth of the turtle Actinemys marmorata in the Klamath-Siskiyou Ecoregion: Age, not size, matters. Copeia 2010 (3):443–451.
Bury, R.B., and G.W. Bury. 2005. Biogeographic Patterns. Pp. 14-16. In Jones, L.L.C., W. Leonard, and D.H. Olson (Eds.). Amphibians of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle Audubon Society.