Travis D. Marsico

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Federal Grant PI

Professor of Botany, Curator, Arkansas State University Herbarium

Arkansas State University

Faculty Researcher

14 h-index 54 pubs 1,063 cited

Research Areas

Biomedical Subjects

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Travis D. Marsico's research focuses on understanding and predicting the ecological impacts of invasive species, particularly insects, on native plant communities. He employs phylogenetic risk assessment methods to forecast how introduced insects might affect North American conifers and investigates the adaptive potential of invasive grasses through genomic analysis. His work also addresses how to quantify host breadth in herbivores to predict their impact as invasive species.

Marsico also contributes to the broader scientific community through his curation of the Arkansas State University Herbarium and his work on collections education, emphasizing the value of the extended specimen and data acumen. He has led community science initiatives, such as herbarium transcription projects in Arkansas, to build networks of students and volunteers for data collection. His research interests extend to plant migration, range expansion limitations, and growth responses to future climate change within ecosystems like the Garry oak ecosystem.

He serves as Principal Investigator on an NSF grant totaling $1,999,484, focused on understanding invasion and disease ecology and evolution through computational data education. Marsico has published 54 papers, accumulating over 1,063 citations, and holds an h-index of 14.

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)

Ecology Letters 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
Flora of six Lower Mississippi River islands (U.S.A.) (2023)

Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas DOI OpenAlex
High species richness and turnover of vascular epiphytes is associated with water availability along the elevation gradient of Volcán Maderas, Nicaragua (2022)

Ecology and Evolution 6 citations DOI OpenAlex
Variation in plant traits and phylogenetic structure associated with native and nonnative species in an industrialized flora (2022)

NeoBiota DOI OpenAlex
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)

Ecological Applications 14 citations DOI OpenAlex
Predicting invasion risk of grasses in novel environments requires improved genomic understanding of adaptive potential (2022)

American Journal of Botany 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
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)

Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas DOI OpenAlex
Community Science Success for Herbarium Transcription in Arkansas: Building a Network of Students and Volunteers for Notes from Nature (2022)

Castanea 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
High species richness turnover of vascular epiphytes is associated with water availability along the elevation gradient of Volcán Maderas, Nicaragua (2021)

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Collections Education: The Extended Specimen and Data Acumen (2021)

BioScience 14 citations DOI OpenAlex
Predicting non-native insect impact: focusing on the trees to see the forest (2021)

Biological Invasions 13 citations DOI OpenAlex
Strengthening the Ties That Bind: An Evaluation of Cross-disciplinary Communication Between Invasion Ecologists and Biological Control Researchers in Entomology (2020)

Annals of the Entomological Society of America 15 citations DOI OpenAlex
Small herbaria contribute unique biogeographic records to county, locality, and temporal scales (2020)

American Journal of Botany 50 citations DOI OpenAlex
Regional Collections Are an Essential Component of Biodiversity Research Infrastructure (2020)

BioScience 31 citations DOI OpenAlex
Seeds attached to refrigerated shipping containers represent a substantial risk of nonnative plant species introduction and establishment (2020)

Scientific Reports 33 citations DOI OpenAlex