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Grear, J.S. and C.E. Burns. 2007. Evaluating effects of low quality habitats on regional population growth in Peromyscus leucopus: Insights from field-parameterized spatial matrix models. Landscape Ecology.  22: 45-60.

Knapp, A.K., C.E. Burns, R. Fynn, K. Kirkman, C. Morris, and M.D. Smith. 2006. Convergence and contingency in production-precipitation relationships in North American and South African C4 savanna grasslands. Oecologia. 149: 456-64. doi:10.1007/s00442-006-0468-2.

Burns, C.E. 2005. Behavioral ecology of disturbed landscapes: The response of territorial animals to relocation. Behavioral Ecology. 16(5): 898-905. doi:10.1093/beheco/ari70.

Burns, C.E., B.J. Goodwin, and R.S. Ostfeld. 2005. A prescription for longer-life: bot-fly infection in the white-footed mouse, Peromyscus leucopus. Ecology. 86(3): 753-61.

Caccone, A., G. Gentile, C.E. Burns, E. Sezzi, W. Bergman, and J.R. Powell. 2004. Extreme difference in rate of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA evolution in a large ectotherm, Galápagos tortoises. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 31: 794-98.

Burns, C.E., K.M. Johnston, and O.J. Schmitz. 2003. Global climate change and mammalian species diversity in US National Parks. PNAS. 100(20): 11474-77.

Burns, C.E., C. Ciofi, L.B. Beheregaray, J.R. Powell and A. Caccone. 2003. The origin of captive Galápagos tortoises based on DNA analysis: Implications for the management of natural populations. Animal Conservation. 6(4): 329-37.

Schmitz, O.J., E. Post, C.E. Burns, and K.M. Johnston. 2003. Ecosystem responses to global climate change: Moving beyond color-mapping. BioScience. 53(12): 1199-1205.