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 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 on-going research in the intermontane basins of Ecuador and the eastern basins of Bolivia.
(right) Burnham and Caissa Revilla Minaya working at Los Amigos Biological Station (CICRA) in Madre de Dios, Peru, May 2007.
(above) From Women Outside,
Summer 1998,
"Neither Blowdart, Nor Botfly...Nor Utter Indifference
to Her Leafy Life's Work, Nothing can keep neotropical goodwill ambassador Robyn Burnham from her beloved
jungle vines. "
Burnham and Tiwae identifying climber species in the lowland Amazon forest of Ecuador. |
