Griffith University

PhD

Principal Research Fellow, Australian Rivers Institute

Contact details for Associate Professor Michele Burford

Research Expertise

• Algal ecology
  
• Food web dynamics
  
• Nutrient cycling in marine and freshwater systems

Recent publications

• O’Neil, J.M., Davis, T.W., Burford, M.A., Gobler, C.J. 201…The rise of harmful cyanobacteria blooms (CHABs): Role of eutrophication and climate change in freshwater, estuarine and marine Ecosystems. Harmful Algae, accepted July 2011.
• Leigh, C., Sheldon, F., Burford, M., Koster-Stewart, B. 201….Understanding multiple responses of key ecological attributes within river systems to potential flow regime modification. Ecological Applications, accepted August 2011.
• Warfe, D., Pettit, N.E., Pusey, B.J., Davies, P.M., Hamilton, S.K., Bayliss, P., Ward, D.P., Kennard, M.J., Douglas, M.M., Burford, M., Bunn, S.E., Halliday, I. The “wet-dry” in the wet-dry tropics drives ecosystem structure and function in northern Australian rivers. Freshwater Biology, accepted June 2011.
• Smith, J., Burford, M.A., Revill, A.T., Haese, R.R., Fortune, J. Effect of nutrient loading on biogeochemical processes in tropical tidal creeks. Biogeochemistry, accepted May 2011.
• Burford, M.A., Green, S.A., Cook. A.J., Johnson, S.A., Kerr, J.G., O’Brien, K.R. 201… Sources and fate of nutrients in a subtropical reservoir. Aquatic Sciences, accepted April 2011.
• Kerr, J.G., Burford, M.A., Olley, J., Bunn, S., Udy, J. 2011. Examining the link between terrestrial and aquatic phosphorus speciation in a subtropical catchment: the role of selective erosion and transport of fine sediments during storm events. Water Research, 45, 3331-3340.
• Kerr, J.G., Burford, M.A., Olley, J., Udy, J. 2011. Phosphorus sorption in soils and sediments: implications for phosphate supply to a subtropical river in southeast Queensland, Australia. Biogeochemistry, 102, 73-85.
• Burford, M. A., Revill, A.T. Palmer, D.W. Clementson, L., Robson, B.J., Webster, I.T. 2011. River regulation alters drivers of primary productivity along a tropical river-estuary system. Marine and Freshwater Research, 62, 141-151.
• Leigh, C., Burford, M.A., Roberts, D.T., Udy, J.W. 2010. Predicting vulnerability of reservoirs to poor water quality and cyanobacterial blooms. Water Research, 44, 4487-4496.
• Orr, P.T., Rasmussen, J.P., Burford, M.A., Eaglesham, G.K and Lennox, S.A. 2010. Evaluation of quantitative real-time PCR to characterise spatial and temporal variations in cyanobacteria, Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii (Woloszynska) Seenaya et Subba Raju and cylindrospermopsin concentrations in three subtropical Australian reservoirs.  Harmful Algae 9, 243–254.
• Posselt, A.J., Burford, M.A., Shaw, G. 2009. Pulses of phosphate promote dominance of the toxic cyanophyte Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii in a subtropical water reservoir.  Journal of Phycology 45, 540-546.
• O’Brien, K.R., Burford, M.A., Brookes, J.D.  2009. Effects of light history on primary productivity in a Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii-dominated reservoir. Freshwater Biology, 54, 272-282.
• Burford, M.A., Alongi, D.M., McKinnon, A.D., Trott, L.J. 2008. Primary production and nutrients in a tropical macrotidal estuary, Darwin Harbour, Australia. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 79, 440-448.
• Burford, M.A., Cook, A.J., Fellows, C.S., Balcombe, S.R., Bunn, S.E. 2008. Sources of carbon fuelling production in an arid floodplain river. Marine and Freshwater Research, 29, 224-234.