Gary N. Ervin

Plant Ecology Lab

Ervin in front of giant sundial at the Tropic of Capricorn in northwest Argentina - Dec 2008

Welcome ~ Bienvenidos

Work in the Ervin Plant Ecology lab has involved various combinations of:

Ecology of wetland plants and insects

Ecology of invasive plants and insects

GIS modeling of invasion and invasive species

Ecology of special communities of the southeast

Ecological genetics of invasive species

 

The principle species we presently study are:

Imperata cylindrica - cogongrass

Opuntia species - pricklypear cacti

Cactoblastis cactorum - South American cactus moth

Arundinaria species - native southeastern rivercane

Other invasive species

 

Potential Graduate Students

 

Department of Biological Sciences

PO Box GY

114 Harned Hall, 295 Lee Blvd

Mississippi State, MS 39762

662-325-1203

gervin <at> biology . msstate . edu

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Accepted this summer:

 

Brooks, C. P., G. N. Ervin, L. Varone, and G. Logarzo. Native ecotypic variation and the role of host identity in the spread of an invasive herbivore, Cactoblastis cactorum (Berg). Ecology.

 

Ervin, G. N. and D. C. Holly. Examining local transferability of predictive species distribution models for invasive plants: An example with cogongrass (Imperata cylindrica). Invasive Plant Science and Management.

 

Mills. M. C., B. S. Baldwin, and G. N. Ervin. Evaluating physiological and growth responses of Arundinaria species to inundation. Castanea.