Andy Bramburger, Ph D
Research Scientist
Telephone:  613-936-6620 Ext 229
Email: abramburger(@)riverinstitute.ca

 Research Interests: Aquatic ecology, community ecology, diatoms, anthropogenic perturbations and disturbance ecology, ecological modeling, water quality, wetland ecology.

 About me: I am a research scientist at the St. Lawrence River Institute, in Cornwall, Ontario. My research examines the effects of changing water quality and physical habitat characteristics on communities of organisms. I employ an ecological modeling approach and use communities of diatoms (single-celled algar) to test model predictions and ecological theory. I am especially interested in the ecology of critical wetland habitats throughout North America.

Selected publications:

  1. Bramburger, A.J., Haffner, G.D. & Hamilton, P.B. (2004). Examining the distributional patterns of the diatom flora of the Malili Lakes, Sulwesi Island, Indonesia. In Poulin, M. (ed.) Proceedings of the 17th International Diatom Symposium. pp 11 – 17.
     
  2. Bramburger, A.J., Hamilton, P.B., Hehanussa, P.E., Hinz, F. & Haffner, G.D. (2006). A review of taxa within the genus Surirella from the Malili Lakes, Sulawesi Island, Indonesia, with descriptions of 11 new taxa. Diatom Research 21, 1 – 56.
     
  3. G.D. Haffner, E. Sabo, A.J. Bramburger, P.B. Hamilton and P. Hehanussa (2006). Limnology And Sediment Dynamics In The Malili Lakes: What Regulates Biological Production? In P.E. Hehanussa, G.S. Haryani and I. Ridwansyah (eds.) The Ecology and Limnology of the Malili Lakes: Proceedings International Symposium. LIPI Press, Indonesia.
  4. P.B. Hamilton, A.J. Bramburger, E.Sabo, G.D. Haffner, P.E. Hehanussa (2006). Factors Regulating The Endemic Diatom Community Of The Malili Lakes. In P.E. Hehanussa, G.S. Haryani and I. Ridwansyah (eds.) The Ecology and Limnology of the Malili Lakes: Proceedings International Symposium. LIPI Press, Indonesia.
  5. Bramburger, A.J., Hamilton, P.B., Hehanussa, P.E. & Haffner, G.D. 2008). Spatial patterns of planktonic and benthic diatom distribution and assemblage similarity in Lake Matano (Sulawesi Island, Indonesia). In Likgisgwat, T. ed. Proceedings of the 19th International Diatom Symposium. pp 1-13
     
  6. Bramburger, A.J., Hamilton, P.B., Hehanussa, P.E. & Haffner, G.D. (2008). Factors regulating the community composition and relative abundance of taxa in the diatom communities of the Malili Lakes, Sulawesi Island, Indonesia. Hydrobiologia 615, 215 - 224.
     
  7. Bramburger, A.J., Hamilton, P.B., Hehanussa, P.E. & Haffner, G.D. (in press). Colonization of artificial substrates by the littoral diatom community of an ancient, tropical lake. Journal of Phycology. 18pp.
     
  8. Bramburger, A.J., Munyon, J.W. & Gaiser, E.E. (in press). Water quality and wet season diatom assemblage characteristics from the Tamiami Trail pilot swales sites (Everglades National Park, FL). Phytotaxa, 35pp.

Reports: 

1.  Bramburger, A.J., Gaiser, E.E.,  Richards, J.H., Hoch, J.M, Sokol, E.R., Trexler, J.C. & Scinto, L.J. (2011) Water quality, soils and ecological effects of pilot spreader swales along the Tamiami Trail in Everglades National Park: Baselline monitoring report. CAH5000060104, Department of the Interior, National Park Service, South Florida Natural Resources Center and South Florida/Caribbean Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit. 103pp.