School of Biological Sciences

Dr Kevin Burns

Senior Lecturer
School of Biological Sciences
address

Phone: 04 463 6873
Fax: 04 463 5331
Location: Room 623, New Kirk Building, Kelburn Pde, Kelburn Campus

Dr Kevin Burns

Research Interests

  • Animal behaviour
  • Plant form and function
  • Plant-animal interactions
  • Island biology
  • New Zealand natural history

Burns KC (2013) What causes size coupling in fruit-frugivore webs? Ecology In press

Kavanagh PH, Lehnebach CA, Shea MJ, Burns KC (2011) Allometry of sexual size dimorphism in dioecious plants: Do plants obey Rensch’s rule? American Naturalist 178: 596-601.

Burns KC & Zotz G (2010) A hierarchical framework to investigate epiphyte assemblages: networks, metacommunites and scale. Ecology 91: 377-385.

Fadzly N, Jack C, Schaefer HM & Burns KC (2009) Ontogenetic colour changes in an insular tree species: Signalling to extinct browsing birds? New Phytologist 184: 495-501.

Hunt S, Low J & Burns KC (2008) Adaptive numerical competency in a food hoarding songbird. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 275: 2373-2379.

Burns KC (2007) Network properties of an epiphyte metacommunity. Journal of Ecology 95: 1142-1151.

Duthie C, Gibbs G & Burns KC (2006) Seed dispersal by weta. Science 311: 1575.

Marchinko KB, Nishizaki MT & Burns KC (2004) Community-wide character displacement in barnacles: a new perspective for past observations. Ecology Letters 7: 114-120.

Please visit my Island Ecology Research Group website.

Full list of publications.