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Amy Erickson PhD

Associate Professor
Department
Biological Sciences
College
College of Arts and Sciences
Start Year at LSUS
2007
Terminal Degree/Yr
PhD/2003
Office Location
Science Building, Room 125
318-797-5105
amy.erickson@lsus.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Biography

Dr. Amy Anne Erickson, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at LSUS, received her Ph.D. in Biology from the University of South Florida in 2003 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Smithsonian Marine Station in Fort Pierce in 2006. She has been at LSUS since 2007, where she teaches, advises, and engages students in research. Courses she teaches include General Biology, Marine Environment, Marine Biology, Aquatic Biology, Principles of Ecology, and Biostatistics, among others.

 

Degrees

PhD Biology
University of South Florida
MS General Experimental Psychology
Florida State University
BS Biology
Georgetown University

Research Interests

Dr. Erickson has studied marine feeding ecology for over 25 years. She has examined associational resistance and susceptibility, herbivore feeding preferences, and algal and mangrove secondary chemistry. She has been trained in feeding ecology methodology and natural products extraction, isolation, and identification procedures. More recently, she has been researching aquatic invasive species and trying to identify methods to control them. She has mentored over 200 biology undergraduates and graduate students during her career.

Selected Publications

Capper, A., Erickson., A.A., Ritson-Williams, R., Becerro, M.A., Arthur, K.A., and Paul, V.J. (2016). Palatability and chemical defences of benthic cyanobacteria to a suite of herbivores. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 474:101-108.

Erickson, A.A., Bell, S.S., and Dawes, C.J. (2012). Associational resistance protects mangrove leaves from crab herbivory. Acta Oec. 41:46-57.

Erickson, A.A., Paul, V. J., Van Alstyne, K.L., and Kwiatkowski, L.M. (2006). Palatability of green algae that may employ different types of activated chemical defenses.  J. Chem. Ecol. 32:1883-1895.

Erickson, A.A., Bell, S.S., and Dawes, C.J. (2004). Does mangrove leaf chemistry help explain crab herbivory patterns?  Biotropica 36(3):333-343.

 

Teaching Assignments

General Biology
Marine Environment
Biological Inquiry
Marine Biology
Marine Feeding Ecology
Aquatic Biology
Principles of Ecology
Chemical Ecology
Invasive Species
Biostatistics

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