Mark A. Genung
- Faculty
- James H. Harper South Louisiana Mid-Winter Fair Association/BORSF Professor of Biology
- 337-482-6277
- mark.genung@louisiana.edu
- Billeaud Hall, Room 224
Education
Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 2007
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
B.S. in Biology, 2007
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Student Research/Collaboration
- Community and theoretical ecology
- Plant and pollinator ecology
- Biodiversity
- Ecosystem services
Publications
- Kooyers NJ, MA Genung, SG Innes, AK Turcu, DM Hinrichs, B LeBlanc, CM Patterson (2025) Heatwaves decrease fitness and alter maternal provisioning in natural populations of Mimulus guttatus. American Journal of Botany, in press.
- Sweet J, S Casas S, J La Peyre, MA Genung, BA Stauffer (2025) Effects of the cyanobacteria Microcystis aeruginosa on eastern oyster feeding. Ecosphere, in press.
- Winfree R, J Reilly, MA Genung (2025) Abundance, not just diversity, needs to be part of biodiversity-ecosystem services research. Nature Reviews Biodiversity, https://doi.org/10.1038/s44358-025-00040-1.
- Zhang A, S Chen, Z Liu, J Chen, H Song, J Wang, H Cui, Z Yang, S Xiao, A Lizhe, MA Genung (2024) After shrub encroachment, changes in plant biomass are driven by persisting plant species, but species gains drive nematode carbon dynamics. Ecology Letters, 28:e70070.
- Genung MA, Winfree R (2024) Dominant species stabilize pollination services through response diversity, but not cross-scale redundancy. Ecology, Early View, e4481.