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Dr Victoria Burton

Dr Victoria Burton

Postdoctoral Researcher, EXCALIBUR

Department: Life Sciences
Division: LS Diversity and Informatics Division

Summary

I am interested in how soil and leaf-litter invertebrate communities respond to human impacts, particularly in forest and urban ecosystems. I am passionate about UK biodiversity, its identification and recording, and am an active member of many natural history societies. I have developed and assisted with award winning public engagement activities with various societies and through my citizen science project - Earthworm Watch - which I ran as part of my PhD.

Currently I am a post-doctoral researcher on Excalibur - a EU H2020 Consortium aiming to obtain a better understanding of underground soil biodiversity and dynamic in horticulture. Previously I was Project Officer for the LEARN CitSci project, a UK-US partnership project researching what young people learn from taking part in museum-led citizen science projects.

My PhD research investigated how soil and leaf litter biodiversity responds to land use change using an integrative approach - combining new data collection, citizen science and analysis of existing data re-purposed from literature as part of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial System) project (http://www.predicts.org.uk). My PhD was funded by NERC through Imperial's Science and Solutions for a Changing Planet Doctoral Training Programme.

Qualifications

    Degrees

  • PhD, Imperial College London, UK, 2014 - 2020
  • MSc, Imperial College London, United Kingdom, 2012 - 2013
  • BSc(Hons), The Open university, United Kingdom, 2005 - 2011

Employment history

    Academic

  • Post-doctoral researcher, Natural History Museum, London, Life Sciences, United Kingdom, 2021 - ongoing
  • Project Officer - LEARN CitSci, Natural History Museum, LS Angela Marmont Centre, United Kingdom, 2020 - 2021
  • Scientific Advisor - Urban Nature Project, Natural History Museum, LS Angela Marmont Centre, United Kingdom, 2020 - 2020
  • Field Assistant (Ecology), University of Reading, Centre for Agri-Environment Research, United Kingdom, 2014 - 2014
  • Research Postgraduate, Natural History Museum London / Imperial College London, UK, 2014 - 2020
  • Non-academic

    Interim Project Coordinator, Natural History Museum London, LS Angela Marmont Centre, 2019 - 2020

    Citizen Science Facilitator, Permaculture Association (Britain), 2018 - 2019

    Medical Administrator, Dr D A Spruell & Partners, Waterlooville, Hampshire, 2006 - 2012

Committees

Member, Royal Entomological Society Outreach Committee, 2022 - on going.

Member, Dipterists Forum, 2013 - on going.

Treasurer, Dipterists Forum, 2013 - on going.

Member, Amateur Entomologist's Society, 2013 - on going.

Publications

Burton VJ, Contu S, De Palma A, Hill SLL, Albrecht H, Bone JS, Carpenter D, Corstanje R, De Smedt P, Farrell M, Ford HV, Hudson LN, Inward K, Jones DT, Kosewska A, Lo-Man-Hung NF, Magura T, Mulder C, Murvanidze M, Newbold T, Smith J, Suarez AV, Suryometaram S, Tóthmérész B, Uehara-Prado M, Vanbergen AJ, Verheyen K, Wuyts K, Scharlemann JPW, Eggleton P, Purvis A (null) Land use and soil characteristics affect soil organisms differently from above-ground assemblages. BMC Ecology and Evolution, 22 (1) : doi: 10.1186/s12862-022-02089-4

Robinson LD, Miller AE, Burton VJ, Herodotou C, Higgins L, Miller GRM, Young AN, Ghadiri Khanaposhtani M, Benavides Lahnstein AI, Sanghera HK, Johnson RF, Aristeidou M, Ballard HL, Jennewein J, Lorke J, Pratt-Taweh RD (2021) Enhancing youth learning through Community and Citizen Science: a guide for practitioners. Natural History Museum :

Hudson LN, Newbold T, Contu S, Hill SLL, Lysenko I, De Palma A, Phillips HRP, Alhusseini TI, Bedford FE, Bennett DJ, Booth H, Burton VJ, Chng CWT, Choimes A, Correia DLP, Day J, Echeverría-Londoño S, Emerson SR, Gao D, Garon M, Harrison MLK, Ingram DJ, Jung M, Kemp V, Kirkpatrick L, Martin CD, Pan Y, Pask-Hale GD, Pynegar EL, Robinson AN, Sanchez-Ortiz K, Senior RA, Simmons BI, White HJ, Zhang H, Aben J, Abrahamczyk S, Adum GB, Aguilar-Barquero V, Aizen MA, Albertos B, Alcala EL, del Mar Alguacil M, Alignier A, Ancrenaz M, Andersen AN, Arbeláez-Cortés E, Armbrecht I, Arroyo-Rodríguez V, Aumann T, Axmacher JC, Azhar B, Azpiroz AB, Baeten L, Bakayoko A, Báldi A, Banks JE, Baral SK, Barlow J, Barratt BIP, Barrico L, Bartolommei P, Barton DM, Basset Y, Batáry P, Bates AJ, Baur B, Bayne EM, Beja P, Benedick S, Berg Å, Bernard H, Berry NJ, Bhatt D, Bicknell JE, Bihn JH, Blake RJ, Bobo KS, Bóçon R, Boekhout T, Böhning-Gaese K, Bonham KJ, Borges PAV, Borges SH, Boutin C, Bouyer J, Bragagnolo C, Brandt JS, Brearley FQ, Brito I, Bros V, Brunet J, Buczkowski G, Buddle CM, Bugter R, Buscardo E, Buse J, Cabra-García J, Cáceres NC, Cagle NL, Calviño-Cancela M, Cameron SA, Cancello EM, Caparrós R, Cardoso P, Carpenter D, Carrijo TF, Carvalho AL, Cassano CR, Castro H, Castro-Luna AA, Rolando CB, Cerezo A, Chapman KA, Chauvat M, Christensen M, Clarke FM, Cleary DFR, Colombo G, Connop SP, Craig MD, Cruz-López L, Cunningham SA, D'Aniello B, D'Cruze N, da Silva PG, Dallimer M, Danquah E, Darvill B, Dauber J, Davis ALV, Dawson J, de Sassi C, de Thoisy B, Deheuvels O, Dejean A, Devineau J-L, Diekötter T, Dolia JV, Domínguez E, Dominguez-Haydar Y, Dorn S, Draper I, Dreber N, Dumont B, Dures SG, Dynesius M, Edenius L, Eggleton P, Eigenbrod F, Elek Z, Entling MH, Esler KJ, de Lima RF, Faruk A, Farwig N, Fayle TM, Felicioli A, Felton AM, Fensham RJ, Fernandez IC, Ferreira CC, Ficetola GF, Fiera C, Filgueiras BKC, Fırıncıoğlu HK, Flaspohler D, Floren A, Fonte SJ, Fournier A, Fowler RE, Franzén M, Fraser LH, Fredriksson GM, Freire GB, Frizzo TLM, Fukuda D, Furlani D, Gaigher R, Ganzhorn JU, García KP, Garcia-R JC, Garden JG, Garilleti R, Ge B-M, Gendreau-Berthiaume B, Gerard PJ, Gheler-Costa C, Gilbert B, Giordani P, Giordano S, Golodets C, Gomes LGL, Gould RK, Goulson D, Gove AD, Granjon L, Grass I, Gray CL, Grogan J, Gu W, Guardiola M, Gunawardene NR, Gutierrez AG, Gutiérrez-Lamus DL, Haarmeyer DH, Hanley ME, Hanson T, Hashim NR, Hassan SN, Hatfield RG, Hawes JE, Hayward MW, Hébert C, Helden AJ, Henden J-A, Henschel P, Hernández L, Herrera JP, Herrmann F, Herzog F, Higuera-Diaz D, Hilje B, Höfer H, Hoffmann A, Horgan FG, Hornung E, Horváth R, Hylander K, Isaacs-Cubides P, Ishida H, Ishitani M, Jacobs CT, Jaramillo VJ, Jauker B, Hernández FJ, Johnson MF, Jolli V, Jonsell M, Juliani SN, Jung TS, Kapoor V, Kappes H, Kati V, Katovai E, Kellner K, Kessler M, Kirby KR, Kittle AM, Knight ME, Knop E, Kohler F, Koivula M, Kolb A, Kone M, Kőrösi Á, Krauss J, Kumar A, Kumar R, Kurz DJ, Kutt AS, Lachat T, Lantschner V, Lara F, Lasky JR, Latta SC, Laurance WF, Lavelle P, Le Féon V, LeBuhn G, Légaré J-P, Lehouck V, Lencinas MV, Lentini PE, Letcher SG, Li Q, Litchwark SA, Littlewood NA, Liu Y, Lo-Man-Hung N, López-Quintero CA, Louhaichi M, Lövei GL, Lucas-Borja ME, Luja VH, Luskin MS, MacSwiney G MC, Maeto K, Magura T, Mallari NA, Malone LA, Malonza PK, Malumbres-Olarte J, Mandujano S, Måren IE, Marin-Spiotta E, Marsh CJ, Marshall EJP, Martínez E, Martínez Pastur G, Moreno Mateos D, Mayfield MM, Mazimpaka V, McCarthy JL, McCarthy KP, McFrederick QS, McNamara S, Medina NG, Medina R, Mena JL, Mico E, Mikusinski G, Milder JC, Miller JR, Miranda-Esquivel DR, Moir ML, Morales CL, Muchane MN, Muchane M, Mudri-Stojnic S, Munira AN, Muoñz-Alonso A, Munyekenye BF, Naidoo R, Naithani A, Nakagawa M, Nakamura A, Nakashima Y, Naoe S, Nates-Parra G, Navarrete Gutierrez DA, Navarro-Iriarte L, Ndang'ang'a PK, Neuschulz EL, Ngai JT, Nicolas V, Nilsson SG, Noreika N, Norfolk O, Noriega JA, Norton DA, Nöske NM, Nowakowski AJ, Numa C, O'Dea N, O'Farrell PJ, Oduro W, Oertli S, Ofori-Boateng C, Oke CO, Oostra V, Osgathorpe LM, Otavo SE, Page NV, Paritsis J, Parra-H A, Parry L, Pe'er G, Pearman PB, Pelegrin N, Pélissier R, Peres CA, Peri PL, Persson AS, Petanidou T, Peters MK, Pethiyagoda RS, Phalan B, Philips TK, Pillsbury FC, Pincheira-Ulbrich J, Pineda E, Pino J, Pizarro-Araya J, Plumptre AJ, Poggio SL, Politi N, Pons P, Poveda K, Power EF, Presley SJ, Proença V, Quaranta M, Quintero C, Rader R, Ramesh BR, Ramirez-Pinilla MP, Ranganathan J, Rasmussen C, Redpath-Downing NA, Reid JL, Reis YT, Rey Benayas JM, Rey-Velasco JC, Reynolds C, Ribeiro DB, Richards MH, Richardson BA, Richardson MJ, Ríos RM, Robinson R, Robles CA, Römbke J, Romero-Duque LP, Rös M, Rosselli L, Rossiter SJ, Roth DS, Roulston TH, Rousseau L, Rubio AV, Ruel J-C, Sadler JP, Sáfián S, Saldaña-Vázquez RA, Sam K, Samnegård U, Santana J, Santos X, Savage J, Schellhorn NA, Schilthuizen M, Schmiedel U, Schmitt CB, Schon NL, Schüepp C, Schumann K, Schweiger O, Scott DM, Scott KA, Sedlock JL, Seefeldt SS, Shahabuddin G, Shannon G, Sheil D, Sheldon FH, Shochat E, Siebert SJ, Silva FAB, Simonetti JA, Slade EM, Smith J, Smith-Pardo AH, Sodhi NS, Somarriba EJ, Sosa RA, Soto Quiroga G, St-Laurent M-H, Starzomski BM, Stefanescu C, Steffan-Dewenter I, Stouffer PC, Stout JC, Strauch AM, Struebig MJ, Su Z, Suarez-Rubio M, Sugiura S, Summerville KS, Sung Y-H, Sutrisno H, Svenning J-C, Teder T, Threlfall CG, Tiitsaar A, Todd JH, Tonietto RK, Torre I, Tóthmérész B, Tscharntke T, Turner EC, Tylianakis JM, Uehara-Prado M, Urbina-Cardona N, Vallan D, Vanbergen AJ, Vasconcelos HL, Vassilev K, Verboven HAF, Verdasca MJ, Verdú JR, Vergara CH, Vergara PM, Verhulst J, Virgilio M, Vu LV, Waite EM, Walker TR, Wang H-F, Wang Y, Watling JI, Weller B, Wells K, Westphal C, Wiafe ED, Williams CD, Willig MR, Woinarski JCZ, Wolf JHD, Wolters V, Woodcock BA, Wu J, Wunderle JM, Yamaura Y, Yoshikura S, Yu DW, Zaitsev AS, Zeidler J, Zou F, Collen B, Ewers RM, Mace GM, Purves DW, Scharlemann JPW, Purvis A (2017) The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project. Ecology and Evolution, 7 (1) : 145 - 188. doi: 10.1002/ece3.2579

Hudson L, Newbold T, Contu S, Hill SLL, Lysenko I, De Palma A, Phillips HRP, Alhusseini TI, Bedford FE, Bennett DJ, Booth H, Burton VJ, Chng CWT, Choimes A, Correia D, Day J, Echeverria-Londono S, Emerson SR, Gao D, Garon M, Harrison MLK, Ingram DI, Jung M, Kemp V, Kirkpatrick L, Martin CD, Pan P, Pask-Hale GD, Pynegar EL, Robinson AN, Sanchez-Ortiz K, Senior RA, Simmons BI, White HJ, Zhang H, Eggleton P, Collen B, Ewers RM, Mace GM, Purves DW, Scharlemann JPW, Purvis A (2016) The 2016 release of the PREDICTS database.

Newbold T, Hudson LN, Arnell AP, Contu S, De Palma A, Ferrier S, Hill SLL, Hoskins AJ, Lysenko I, Phillips HRP, Burton VJ, Chng CWT, Emerson S, Gao D, Pask-Hale G, Hutton J, Jung M, Sanchez-Ortiz K, Simmons BI, Whitmee S, Zhang H, Scharlemann JPW, Purvis A (2016) Has land use pushed terrestrial biodiversity beyond the planetary boundary? A global assessment. Science, 353 (6296) : 288 - 291. doi: 10.1126/science.aaf2201

Burton VJ, Eggleton P (2016) Microhabitat heterogeneity enhances soil macrofauna and plant species diversity in an Ash – Field Maple woodland. European Journal of Soil Biology, 75 : 97 - 106. doi: 10.1016/j.ejsobi.2016.04.012

Newbold T, Hudson LN, Arnell AP, De Palma A, Ferrier S, Hill SLL, Hoskins AJ, Lysenko I, Phillips HRP, Burton VJ, Chng WT, Emerson S, Gao D, Pask-Hale G, Hutton J, Jung M, Sanchez-Ortiz K, Simmons BI, Whitmee S, Zhang H, Scharlemann JPW, Purvis A (2016) Site-level data and Jaccard similarities from Newbold et al. (2016) "Has land use pushed terrestrial biodiversity beyond the planetary boundary? A global assessment", Science 353, 281-291, DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf2201.

Newbold T, Hudson LN, Arnell AP, Contu S, De Palma A, Ferrier S, Hill SLL, Hoskins AJ, Lysenko I, Phillips HRP, Burton VJ, Chng CWT, Emerson S, Gao D, Pask-Hale G, Hutton J, Jung M, Sanchez-Ortiz K, Simmons BI, Whitmee S, Zhang H, Scharlemann JPW, Purvis A (2016) Global map of the Biodiversity Intactness Index, from Newbold et al. (2016) Science.

Burton V (null) Timber Copse & Greatmead Copse .

Burton V, Eggleton P (null) Responses of soil biotas to human impacts: from local to global. Presented at First Global Soil Biodiversity Conference.

Burton VJ, Cameron EK (null) Learning More About Earthworms With Citizen Science. Frontiers for Young Minds, 8 : doi: 10.3389/frym.2020.548525

Eisenhauer N, Bender SF, Calderón‐Sanou I, de Vries FT, Lembrechts JJ, Thuiller W, Wall DH, Zeiss R, Bahram M, Beugnon R, Burton VJ, Crowther TW, Delgado‐Baquerizo M, Geisen S, Kardol P, Krashevska V, Martínez‐Muñoz CA, Patoine G, Seeber J, Soudzilovskaia NA, Steinwandter M, Sünnemann M, Sun X, van der Heijden MGA, Guerra CA, Potapov A (2022) Frontiers in soil ecology—Insights from the World Biodiversity Forum 2022. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment, 1 (4) : 245 - 261. doi: 10.1002/sae2.12031

Hodson ME, Corstanjeb R, Jones DT, Witton J, Burton VJ, Sloan T, Eggleton P (null) Earthworm distributions are not driven by measurable soil properties. Do they really indicate soil quality?. PLOS ONE, 16 (8) : e0241945 - e0241945. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0241945

Kovács KZ, Hemment D, Woods M, van der Velden NK, Xaver A, Giesen RH, Burton VJ, Garrett NL, Zappa L, Long D, Dobos E, Skalsky R (null) Citizen observatory based soil moisture monitoring – the GROW example. Hungarian Geographical Bulletin, 68 (2) : 119 - 139. doi: 10.15201/hungeobull.68.2.2

Ollerton J, Trunschke J, Havens K, Landaverde-González P, Keller A, Gilpin A-M, Rodrigo Rech A, Baronio GJ, Phillips BJ, Mackin C, Stanley DA, Treanore E, Baker E, Rotheray EL, Erickson E, Fornoff F, Brearley FQ, Ballantyne G, Iossa G, Stone GN, Bartomeus I, Stockan JA, Leguizamón J, Prendergast K, Rowley L, Giovanetti M, De Oliveira Bueno R, Wesselingh RA, Mallinger R, Edmondson S, Howard SR, Leonhardt SD, Rojas-Nossa SV, Brett M, Joaqui T, Antoniazzi R, Burton VJ, Feng H-H, Tian Z-X, Xu Q, Zhang C, Shi C-L, Huang S-Q, Cole LJ, Bendifallah L, Ellis EE, Hegland SJ, Straffon Díaz S, Lander TA, Mayr AV, Dawson R, Eeraerts M, Armbruster WS, Walton B, Adjlane N, Falk S, Mata L, Goncalves Geiger A, Carvell C, Wallace C, Ratto F, Barberis M, Kahane F, Connop S, Stip A, Sigrist MR, Vereecken NJ, Klein A-M, Baldock K, Arnold SEJ (null) Pollinator-flower interactions in gardens during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown of 2020. Journal of Pollination Ecology, 31 : 87 - 96. doi: 10.26786/1920-7603(2022)695

Phillips H, Beaumelle L, Tyndall K, Burton V, Cameron E, Eisenhauer N, Ferlian O (null) The effects of global change on soil faunal communities: a meta-analytic approach. Research Ideas and Outcomes, 5 : doi: 10.3897/rio.5.e36427

White HJ, León‐Sánchez L, Burton VJ, Cameron EK, Caruso T, Cunha L, Dirilgen T, Jurburg SD, Kelly R, Kumaresan D, Ochoa‐Hueso R, Ordonez A, Phillips HRP, Prieto I, Schmidt O, Caplat P (2020) Methods and approaches to advance soil macroecology. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 29 (10) : 1674 - 1690. doi: 10.1111/geb.13156

Courses taught

First year: BSc Biochemistry, statistics and R
Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
5/2020 - 6/2020.

MSc: MSc Taxonomy and Biodiversity, advanced statistics
Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
1/2020.

Awards

Public Engagement Award, 12/12/2016.

Guest lectures

Invited speaker, Going Underground, Selborne Society: Selborne Society, London, 3/11/2015.

Introduction

Summary

I am interested in how soil and leaf-litter invertebrate communities respond to human impacts, particularly in forest and urban ecosystems. I am passionate about UK biodiversity, its identification and recording, and am an active member of many natural history societies. I have developed and assisted with award winning public engagement activities with various societies and through my citizen science project - Earthworm Watch - which I ran as part of my PhD.

Currently I am a post-doctoral researcher on Excalibur - a EU H2020 Consortium aiming to obtain a better understanding of underground soil biodiversity and dynamic in horticulture. Previously I was Project Officer for the LEARN CitSci project, a UK-US partnership project researching what young people learn from taking part in museum-led citizen science projects.

My PhD research investigated how soil and leaf litter biodiversity responds to land use change using an integrative approach - combining new data collection, citizen science and analysis of existing data re-purposed from literature as part of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial System) project (http://www.predicts.org.uk). My PhD was funded by NERC through Imperial's Science and Solutions for a Changing Planet Doctoral Training Programme.

Qualifications

    Degrees

  • PhD, Imperial College London, UK, 2014 - 2020
  • MSc, Imperial College London, United Kingdom, 2012 - 2013
  • BSc(Hons), The Open university, United Kingdom, 2005 - 2011

Employment history

    Academic

  • Post-doctoral researcher, Natural History Museum, London, Life Sciences, United Kingdom, 2021 - ongoing
  • Project Officer - LEARN CitSci, Natural History Museum, LS Angela Marmont Centre, United Kingdom, 2020 - 2021
  • Scientific Advisor - Urban Nature Project, Natural History Museum, LS Angela Marmont Centre, United Kingdom, 2020 - 2020
  • Field Assistant (Ecology), University of Reading, Centre for Agri-Environment Research, United Kingdom, 2014 - 2014
  • Research Postgraduate, Natural History Museum London / Imperial College London, UK, 2014 - 2020
  • Non-academic

    Interim Project Coordinator, Natural History Museum London, LS Angela Marmont Centre, 2019 - 2020

    Citizen Science Facilitator, Permaculture Association (Britain), 2018 - 2019

    Medical Administrator, Dr D A Spruell & Partners, Waterlooville, Hampshire, 2006 - 2012

Professional activities

Committees

Member, Royal Entomological Society Outreach Committee, 2022 - on going.

Member, Dipterists Forum, 2013 - on going.

Treasurer, Dipterists Forum, 2013 - on going.

Member, Amateur Entomologist's Society, 2013 - on going.

Publications

Publications

Burton VJ, Contu S, De Palma A, Hill SLL, Albrecht H, Bone JS, Carpenter D, Corstanje R, De Smedt P, Farrell M, Ford HV, Hudson LN, Inward K, Jones DT, Kosewska A, Lo-Man-Hung NF, Magura T, Mulder C, Murvanidze M, Newbold T, Smith J, Suarez AV, Suryometaram S, Tóthmérész B, Uehara-Prado M, Vanbergen AJ, Verheyen K, Wuyts K, Scharlemann JPW, Eggleton P, Purvis A (null) Land use and soil characteristics affect soil organisms differently from above-ground assemblages. BMC Ecology and Evolution, 22 (1) : doi: 10.1186/s12862-022-02089-4

Robinson LD, Miller AE, Burton VJ, Herodotou C, Higgins L, Miller GRM, Young AN, Ghadiri Khanaposhtani M, Benavides Lahnstein AI, Sanghera HK, Johnson RF, Aristeidou M, Ballard HL, Jennewein J, Lorke J, Pratt-Taweh RD (2021) Enhancing youth learning through Community and Citizen Science: a guide for practitioners. Natural History Museum :

Hudson LN, Newbold T, Contu S, Hill SLL, Lysenko I, De Palma A, Phillips HRP, Alhusseini TI, Bedford FE, Bennett DJ, Booth H, Burton VJ, Chng CWT, Choimes A, Correia DLP, Day J, Echeverría-Londoño S, Emerson SR, Gao D, Garon M, Harrison MLK, Ingram DJ, Jung M, Kemp V, Kirkpatrick L, Martin CD, Pan Y, Pask-Hale GD, Pynegar EL, Robinson AN, Sanchez-Ortiz K, Senior RA, Simmons BI, White HJ, Zhang H, Aben J, Abrahamczyk S, Adum GB, Aguilar-Barquero V, Aizen MA, Albertos B, Alcala EL, del Mar Alguacil M, Alignier A, Ancrenaz M, Andersen AN, Arbeláez-Cortés E, Armbrecht I, Arroyo-Rodríguez V, Aumann T, Axmacher JC, Azhar B, Azpiroz AB, Baeten L, Bakayoko A, Báldi A, Banks JE, Baral SK, Barlow J, Barratt BIP, Barrico L, Bartolommei P, Barton DM, Basset Y, Batáry P, Bates AJ, Baur B, Bayne EM, Beja P, Benedick S, Berg Å, Bernard H, Berry NJ, Bhatt D, Bicknell JE, Bihn JH, Blake RJ, Bobo KS, Bóçon R, Boekhout T, Böhning-Gaese K, Bonham KJ, Borges PAV, Borges SH, Boutin C, Bouyer J, Bragagnolo C, Brandt JS, Brearley FQ, Brito I, Bros V, Brunet J, Buczkowski G, Buddle CM, Bugter R, Buscardo E, Buse J, Cabra-García J, Cáceres NC, Cagle NL, Calviño-Cancela M, Cameron SA, Cancello EM, Caparrós R, Cardoso P, Carpenter D, Carrijo TF, Carvalho AL, Cassano CR, Castro H, Castro-Luna AA, Rolando CB, Cerezo A, Chapman KA, Chauvat M, Christensen M, Clarke FM, Cleary DFR, Colombo G, Connop SP, Craig MD, Cruz-López L, Cunningham SA, D'Aniello B, D'Cruze N, da Silva PG, Dallimer M, Danquah E, Darvill B, Dauber J, Davis ALV, Dawson J, de Sassi C, de Thoisy B, Deheuvels O, Dejean A, Devineau J-L, Diekötter T, Dolia JV, Domínguez E, Dominguez-Haydar Y, Dorn S, Draper I, Dreber N, Dumont B, Dures SG, Dynesius M, Edenius L, Eggleton P, Eigenbrod F, Elek Z, Entling MH, Esler KJ, de Lima RF, Faruk A, Farwig N, Fayle TM, Felicioli A, Felton AM, Fensham RJ, Fernandez IC, Ferreira CC, Ficetola GF, Fiera C, Filgueiras BKC, Fırıncıoğlu HK, Flaspohler D, Floren A, Fonte SJ, Fournier A, Fowler RE, Franzén M, Fraser LH, Fredriksson GM, Freire GB, Frizzo TLM, Fukuda D, Furlani D, Gaigher R, Ganzhorn JU, García KP, Garcia-R JC, Garden JG, Garilleti R, Ge B-M, Gendreau-Berthiaume B, Gerard PJ, Gheler-Costa C, Gilbert B, Giordani P, Giordano S, Golodets C, Gomes LGL, Gould RK, Goulson D, Gove AD, Granjon L, Grass I, Gray CL, Grogan J, Gu W, Guardiola M, Gunawardene NR, Gutierrez AG, Gutiérrez-Lamus DL, Haarmeyer DH, Hanley ME, Hanson T, Hashim NR, Hassan SN, Hatfield RG, Hawes JE, Hayward MW, Hébert C, Helden AJ, Henden J-A, Henschel P, Hernández L, Herrera JP, Herrmann F, Herzog F, Higuera-Diaz D, Hilje B, Höfer H, Hoffmann A, Horgan FG, Hornung E, Horváth R, Hylander K, Isaacs-Cubides P, Ishida H, Ishitani M, Jacobs CT, Jaramillo VJ, Jauker B, Hernández FJ, Johnson MF, Jolli V, Jonsell M, Juliani SN, Jung TS, Kapoor V, Kappes H, Kati V, Katovai E, Kellner K, Kessler M, Kirby KR, Kittle AM, Knight ME, Knop E, Kohler F, Koivula M, Kolb A, Kone M, Kőrösi Á, Krauss J, Kumar A, Kumar R, Kurz DJ, Kutt AS, Lachat T, Lantschner V, Lara F, Lasky JR, Latta SC, Laurance WF, Lavelle P, Le Féon V, LeBuhn G, Légaré J-P, Lehouck V, Lencinas MV, Lentini PE, Letcher SG, Li Q, Litchwark SA, Littlewood NA, Liu Y, Lo-Man-Hung N, López-Quintero CA, Louhaichi M, Lövei GL, Lucas-Borja ME, Luja VH, Luskin MS, MacSwiney G MC, Maeto K, Magura T, Mallari NA, Malone LA, Malonza PK, Malumbres-Olarte J, Mandujano S, Måren IE, Marin-Spiotta E, Marsh CJ, Marshall EJP, Martínez E, Martínez Pastur G, Moreno Mateos D, Mayfield MM, Mazimpaka V, McCarthy JL, McCarthy KP, McFrederick QS, McNamara S, Medina NG, Medina R, Mena JL, Mico E, Mikusinski G, Milder JC, Miller JR, Miranda-Esquivel DR, Moir ML, Morales CL, Muchane MN, Muchane M, Mudri-Stojnic S, Munira AN, Muoñz-Alonso A, Munyekenye BF, Naidoo R, Naithani A, Nakagawa M, Nakamura A, Nakashima Y, Naoe S, Nates-Parra G, Navarrete Gutierrez DA, Navarro-Iriarte L, Ndang'ang'a PK, Neuschulz EL, Ngai JT, Nicolas V, Nilsson SG, Noreika N, Norfolk O, 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Hudson L, Newbold T, Contu S, Hill SLL, Lysenko I, De Palma A, Phillips HRP, Alhusseini TI, Bedford FE, Bennett DJ, Booth H, Burton VJ, Chng CWT, Choimes A, Correia D, Day J, Echeverria-Londono S, Emerson SR, Gao D, Garon M, Harrison MLK, Ingram DI, Jung M, Kemp V, Kirkpatrick L, Martin CD, Pan P, Pask-Hale GD, Pynegar EL, Robinson AN, Sanchez-Ortiz K, Senior RA, Simmons BI, White HJ, Zhang H, Eggleton P, Collen B, Ewers RM, Mace GM, Purves DW, Scharlemann JPW, Purvis A (2016) The 2016 release of the PREDICTS database.

Newbold T, Hudson LN, Arnell AP, Contu S, De Palma A, Ferrier S, Hill SLL, Hoskins AJ, Lysenko I, Phillips HRP, Burton VJ, Chng CWT, Emerson S, Gao D, Pask-Hale G, Hutton J, Jung M, Sanchez-Ortiz K, Simmons BI, Whitmee S, Zhang H, Scharlemann JPW, Purvis A (2016) Has land use pushed terrestrial biodiversity beyond the planetary boundary? A global assessment. Science, 353 (6296) : 288 - 291. doi: 10.1126/science.aaf2201

Burton VJ, Eggleton P (2016) Microhabitat heterogeneity enhances soil macrofauna and plant species diversity in an Ash – Field Maple woodland. European Journal of Soil Biology, 75 : 97 - 106. doi: 10.1016/j.ejsobi.2016.04.012

Newbold T, Hudson LN, Arnell AP, De Palma A, Ferrier S, Hill SLL, Hoskins AJ, Lysenko I, Phillips HRP, Burton VJ, Chng WT, Emerson S, Gao D, Pask-Hale G, Hutton J, Jung M, Sanchez-Ortiz K, Simmons BI, Whitmee S, Zhang H, Scharlemann JPW, Purvis A (2016) Site-level data and Jaccard similarities from Newbold et al. (2016) "Has land use pushed terrestrial biodiversity beyond the planetary boundary? A global assessment", Science 353, 281-291, DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf2201.

Newbold T, Hudson LN, Arnell AP, Contu S, De Palma A, Ferrier S, Hill SLL, Hoskins AJ, Lysenko I, Phillips HRP, Burton VJ, Chng CWT, Emerson S, Gao D, Pask-Hale G, Hutton J, Jung M, Sanchez-Ortiz K, Simmons BI, Whitmee S, Zhang H, Scharlemann JPW, Purvis A (2016) Global map of the Biodiversity Intactness Index, from Newbold et al. (2016) Science.

Burton V (null) Timber Copse & Greatmead Copse .

Burton V, Eggleton P (null) Responses of soil biotas to human impacts: from local to global. Presented at First Global Soil Biodiversity Conference.

Burton VJ, Cameron EK (null) Learning More About Earthworms With Citizen Science. Frontiers for Young Minds, 8 : doi: 10.3389/frym.2020.548525

Eisenhauer N, Bender SF, Calderón‐Sanou I, de Vries FT, Lembrechts JJ, Thuiller W, Wall DH, Zeiss R, Bahram M, Beugnon R, Burton VJ, Crowther TW, Delgado‐Baquerizo M, Geisen S, Kardol P, Krashevska V, Martínez‐Muñoz CA, Patoine G, Seeber J, Soudzilovskaia NA, Steinwandter M, Sünnemann M, Sun X, van der Heijden MGA, Guerra CA, Potapov A (2022) Frontiers in soil ecology—Insights from the World Biodiversity Forum 2022. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment, 1 (4) : 245 - 261. doi: 10.1002/sae2.12031

Hodson ME, Corstanjeb R, Jones DT, Witton J, Burton VJ, Sloan T, Eggleton P (null) Earthworm distributions are not driven by measurable soil properties. Do they really indicate soil quality?. PLOS ONE, 16 (8) : e0241945 - e0241945. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0241945

Kovács KZ, Hemment D, Woods M, van der Velden NK, Xaver A, Giesen RH, Burton VJ, Garrett NL, Zappa L, Long D, Dobos E, Skalsky R (null) Citizen observatory based soil moisture monitoring – the GROW example. Hungarian Geographical Bulletin, 68 (2) : 119 - 139. doi: 10.15201/hungeobull.68.2.2

Ollerton J, Trunschke J, Havens K, Landaverde-González P, Keller A, Gilpin A-M, Rodrigo Rech A, Baronio GJ, Phillips BJ, Mackin C, Stanley DA, Treanore E, Baker E, Rotheray EL, Erickson E, Fornoff F, Brearley FQ, Ballantyne G, Iossa G, Stone GN, Bartomeus I, Stockan JA, Leguizamón J, Prendergast K, Rowley L, Giovanetti M, De Oliveira Bueno R, Wesselingh RA, Mallinger R, Edmondson S, Howard SR, Leonhardt SD, Rojas-Nossa SV, Brett M, Joaqui T, Antoniazzi R, Burton VJ, Feng H-H, Tian Z-X, Xu Q, Zhang C, Shi C-L, Huang S-Q, Cole LJ, Bendifallah L, Ellis EE, Hegland SJ, Straffon Díaz S, Lander TA, Mayr AV, Dawson R, Eeraerts M, Armbruster WS, Walton B, Adjlane N, Falk S, Mata L, Goncalves Geiger A, Carvell C, Wallace C, Ratto F, Barberis M, Kahane F, Connop S, Stip A, Sigrist MR, Vereecken NJ, Klein A-M, Baldock K, Arnold SEJ (null) Pollinator-flower interactions in gardens during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown of 2020. Journal of Pollination Ecology, 31 : 87 - 96. doi: 10.26786/1920-7603(2022)695

Phillips H, Beaumelle L, Tyndall K, Burton V, Cameron E, Eisenhauer N, Ferlian O (null) The effects of global change on soil faunal communities: a meta-analytic approach. Research Ideas and Outcomes, 5 : doi: 10.3897/rio.5.e36427

White HJ, León‐Sánchez L, Burton VJ, Cameron EK, Caruso T, Cunha L, Dirilgen T, Jurburg SD, Kelly R, Kumaresan D, Ochoa‐Hueso R, Ordonez A, Phillips HRP, Prieto I, Schmidt O, Caplat P (2020) Methods and approaches to advance soil macroecology. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 29 (10) : 1674 - 1690. doi: 10.1111/geb.13156

Teaching and students

Courses taught

First year: BSc Biochemistry, statistics and R
Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
5/2020 - 6/2020.

MSc: MSc Taxonomy and Biodiversity, advanced statistics
Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
1/2020.

Impact and outreach

Awards

Public Engagement Award, 12/12/2016.

Guest lectures

Invited speaker, Going Underground, Selborne Society: Selborne Society, London, 3/11/2015.