Department News
Robyn Burnham
- Associate Professor
- Ph.D. Botany, University of Washington, 1987
- Burnham webpage
Contact information
- University of Michigan
1518 Museums Building
1109 Geddes Ave
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079 - Phone: (734) 647-2585
- Fax: (734) 936-1380
- Email: rburnham@umich.edu
Research interests
Professor Burnham is currently involved in research on climbing plants of the Amazon Basin, especially in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia on the lower flanks of the Andes Mountains. Her interests are in the community structure and species composition of Amazonian forests, as viewed via the lianas and vines that inhabit these forests. Particular interest has recently been focused on the impacts of human intervention in Amazonian forests from oil exploration, agriculture and gold mining. Continuing work on the paleontological history of the forests of Northern South America is carried out in her lab as well, with ongoing research in the intermontane basins of Ecuador and the eastern basins of Bolivia.
