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Email
gervin@biology.msstate.edu
Office
Harned 221
Phone
(662) 325-1203
Mailstop 9536
Mississippi State, MS 39762
gervin@biology.msstate.edu
Office
Harned 221
Phone
(662) 325-1203
Mailstop 9536
Mississippi State, MS 39762
Email
gervin@biology.msstate.edu
Office
Harned 221
Phone
(662) 325-1203
Mailstop 9536
Mississippi State, MS 39762
gervin@biology.msstate.edu
Office
Harned 221
Phone
(662) 325-1203
Mailstop 9536
Mississippi State, MS 39762
Biography
I am a Plant Ecologist and Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Mississippi State. I began this position in Fall of 2001, after a postdoc in the Department of Entomology at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
I earned my BS (1996) and PhD (2000) in Biological Sciences from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. During my doctoral studies, I worked in the area of wetland plant ecology.
My postdoctoral research at the University of Arkansas dealt with biochemical plant defense responses to insect herbivores. That work used herbivores in the Heliothis-Helicoverpa group of moths (corn earworm, tobacco budworm, etc.), and used both native and cultivated plant species (tomato, tobacco, ground cherry) as study subjects.
I have served on editorial boards of the journals Southeastern Naturalist and Wetlands, the latter of which honored me as the Doug Wilcox Outstanding Associate Editor in 2009.
I earned my BS (1996) and PhD (2000) in Biological Sciences from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. During my doctoral studies, I worked in the area of wetland plant ecology.
My postdoctoral research at the University of Arkansas dealt with biochemical plant defense responses to insect herbivores. That work used herbivores in the Heliothis-Helicoverpa group of moths (corn earworm, tobacco budworm, etc.), and used both native and cultivated plant species (tomato, tobacco, ground cherry) as study subjects.
I have served on editorial boards of the journals Southeastern Naturalist and Wetlands, the latter of which honored me as the Doug Wilcox Outstanding Associate Editor in 2009.
Research Interest
I am a Plant Ecologist with interests in wetlands and species invasion. My current research interest is built around the role of wetland plants in filtering excess nutrients from agricultural (and other) runoff. However, my graduate students have worked in a diversity of habitats and with a variety of conservation issues in natural and managed ecosystems.
Hobbies
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Fishing
Hunting
Shooting
Fishing
Hunting
Shooting
Selected Publications
Total Publications: 191
Lazaro-Lobo, A., & Ervin, G. N. (2024). Landscape Context Influences Accuracy of Predicted Georeferenced Soil Data: Implications for Research. GRI Report. Mississippi State University: Geosystems Research Institute. [Abstract] [Document]
Woodard, A. M., Marsico, T. D., & Ervin, G. N. (2012). Host Plant Defense Priming in Response to a Coevolved Herbivore Combats Introduced Herbivore Attack. Ecology and Evolution. ., .DOI:10.1002/ece3.224.
Ervin, G. N., & Holly, D. C. (2011). Examining Local Transferability of Predictive Species Distribution Models for Invasive Plants: An Example with Cogongrass (Imperata Cylindrica). Invasive Plant Science and Management. 4, 390-401.
Marsico, T. D., Wallace, L., Ervin, G. N., Brooks, C., McClure, J. E., & Welch, M. E. (2011). Geographic Patterns of Genetic Diversity from the Native Range of Cactoblastis Cactorum (Berg) Support the Documented History of Invasion and Multiple Introductions for Invasive Populations. Biological Invasions. 13, 857-868. [Document Site]
Bryson, C. T., Krutz, L. J., Ervin, G. N., Reddy, K. N., & Byrd, J. D., Jr. (2010). Ecotype Variability and Edaphic Characteristics for Cogongrass (Imperata Cylindrica) Populations in Mississippi. Invasive Plant Science and Management. 3, 199-207. [Document Site]
Woodard, A. M., Marsico, T. D., & Ervin, G. N. (2012). Host Plant Defense Priming in Response to a Coevolved Herbivore Combats Introduced Herbivore Attack. Ecology and Evolution. ., .DOI:10.1002/ece3.224.
Ervin, G. N., & Holly, D. C. (2011). Examining Local Transferability of Predictive Species Distribution Models for Invasive Plants: An Example with Cogongrass (Imperata Cylindrica). Invasive Plant Science and Management. 4, 390-401.
Marsico, T. D., Wallace, L., Ervin, G. N., Brooks, C., McClure, J. E., & Welch, M. E. (2011). Geographic Patterns of Genetic Diversity from the Native Range of Cactoblastis Cactorum (Berg) Support the Documented History of Invasion and Multiple Introductions for Invasive Populations. Biological Invasions. 13, 857-868. [Document Site]
Bryson, C. T., Krutz, L. J., Ervin, G. N., Reddy, K. N., & Byrd, J. D., Jr. (2010). Ecotype Variability and Edaphic Characteristics for Cogongrass (Imperata Cylindrica) Populations in Mississippi. Invasive Plant Science and Management. 3, 199-207. [Document Site]
