Travis D. Marsico

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Federal Grant PI

Vice Provost for Research, Innovation, and Discovery and Executive Director of the Arkansas Biosciences Institute at Arkansas State University, Professor of Botany

Arkansas State University

14 h-index 54 pubs 1,063 cited

Research Areas

Biomedical Subjects

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Travis D. Marsico's research investigates the ecological and evolutionary factors influencing biological invasions, with a focus on plant and insect species. He holds the position of Professor of Botany and serves as the Curator for the Arkansas State University Herbarium. His federally funded work, supported by a $1,999,484 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), aims to understand invasion and disease ecology and evolution through computational data education.

Marsico's publications explore themes such as the biology and conservation of the monarch butterfly, the role of antagonistic species interactions in successful invasions, and the predictive power of evolutionary history for high-impact insect invasions. He has also examined dispersal limitations in plant species and the potential for enhancing poleward populations under climate change scenarios through translocation experiments. His work also extends to the digitization of biological specimens, highlighting the contribution of small herbaria to biogeographic records.

His scholarship metrics include an h-index of 14, with 54 total publications and 1,063 total citations. Marsico collaborates with researchers at Arkansas State University, including Diana L. Soteropoulos, Emily S. Bellis, and Ben E. Benton, as well as J. Richard Abbott from the University of Arkansas at Monticello.

Metrics

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

Positions

Vice Provost for Research, Innovation, and Discovery and Executive Director of the Arkansas Biosciences Institute at Arkansas State University, Professor of Botany 2023–present

Arkansas State University Research and Technology Transfer ORCID
Professor of Botany, Curator, Arkansas State University Herbarium 2019–2026

Arkansas State University Department of Biological Sciences ORCID
Intelligence Research Analyst, Jefferson Science Fellow 2022–2023

United States Department of State Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Office of the Geographer and Global Issues ORCID
Associate Professor of Botany, Curator, Arkansas State University Herbarium 2014–2019

Arkansas State University Department of Biological Sciences ORCID
Assistant Professor of Botany, Curator, Arkansas State University Herbarium 2010–2014

Arkansas State University Department of Biological Sciences ORCID
Post-doctoral Research Associate 2008–2009

Mississippi State University Department of Biological Sciences ORCID

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