Jeffrey Burchfield

Pantropical geography of lightning-caused disturbance and its implications for tropical forests
Gora, Evan M., Jeffrey C. Burchfield, Helene C. Muller-Landau, Phillip M. Bitzer, and Stephen P. Yanoviak. 2020. “Pantropical Geography of Lightning-Caused Disturbance and Its Implications for Tropical Forests”. Global Change Biology 26: 5017– 5026. doi:10.1111/gcb.15227.
A mechanistic and empirically-supported lightning risk model for forest trees
Gora, Evan M., Helene Muller-Landau, Jeffrey C. Burchfield, Phillip M. Bitzer, S P Hubbell, and Stephen P. Yanoviak. 2020. “A Mechanistic and Empirically-Supported Lightning Risk Model for Forest Trees”. Journal of Ecology 108: 1956– 1966.
Lightning is a major cause of large tropical tree mortality in a lowland neotropical forest
Yanoviak, Stephen P., Evan M. Gora, Phillip M. Bitzer, Jeffrey C. Burchfield, H C Muller-Landau, M. Detto, S Paton, and S P Hubbell. 2020. “Lightning Is a Major Cause of Large Tropical Tree Mortality in a Lowland Neotropical Forest”. New Phytologist 225: 1936-44. doi:10.1111/nph.16260.
Effects of lightning on trees: A predictive model based on in situ electrical resistivity
Gora, Evan M., Phillip M. Bitzer, Jeffrey C. Burchfield, Stefan A. Schnitzer, and Stephen P. Yanoviak. 2017. “Effects of Lightning on Trees: A Predictive Model Based on in Situ Electrical Resistivity”. Ecology and Evolution 7. Wiley-Blackwell: 8523-34. doi:10.1002/ece3.3347.