Travis D. Marsico Source Confirmed

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Professor of Botany, Curator, Arkansas State University Herbarium

Arkansas State University

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14 h-index 54 pubs 1,063 cited

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Travis D. Marsico's research focuses on understanding and predicting the impact of invasive species, particularly insects and grasses, on native ecosystems. He investigates the phylogenetic and genomic factors that influence invasion risk and the potential for adaptation in novel environments. His work also examines the ecological consequences of species invasion, such as changes in community composition and the role of specialist herbivores.

Marsico also contributes to the field of herbarium science and collections-based education. He has led initiatives to engage community scientists in transcribing herbarium data, thereby building networks of students and volunteers. His research explores how specimens and data can be utilized for educational purposes and to enhance data acumen.

His scholarly contributions include 54 publications, with a total of 1,063 citations and an h-index of 14. Marsico has served as Principal Investigator on a significant National Science Foundation grant totaling $1,999,484, focused on understanding invasion and disease ecology and evolution through computational data education. He collaborates with researchers at Arkansas State University and the University of Arkansas at Monticello.

Metrics

h-index: 14
Publications: 54
Citations: 1,063

Selected Publications

What Is a Specialist? Quantifying Host Breadth Enables Impact Prediction for Invasive Herbivores (2025) DOI
Flora of six Lower Mississippi River islands (U.S.A.) (2023) DOI
High species richness and turnover of vascular epiphytes is associated with water availability along the elevation gradient of Volcán Maderas, Nicaragua (2022) DOI
Variation in plant traits and phylogenetic structure associated with native and nonnative species in an industrialized flora (2022) DOI
Phylogenetic risk assessment is robust for forecasting the impact of<scp>E</scp>uropean insects on<scp>N</scp>orth<scp>A</scp>merican conifers (2022) DOI
Predicting invasion risk of grasses in novel environments requires improved genomic understanding of adaptive potential (2022) DOI
An exploration of the vascular flora of Pine City Natural Area, Monroe County, Arkansas, U.S.A., in comparison to the Mississippi Alluvial Plain in eastern Arkansas (U.S.A.) (2022) DOI
Community Science Success for Herbarium Transcription in Arkansas: Building a Network of Students and Volunteers for Notes from Nature (2022) DOI
High species richness turnover of vascular epiphytes is associated with water availability along the elevation gradient of Volcán Maderas, Nicaragua (2021) DOI
Collections Education: The Extended Specimen and Data Acumen (2021) DOI
Predicting non-native insect impact: focusing on the trees to see the forest (2021) DOI