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Marcum, Paul Brent

Associate Botanist/Associate Project Leader for Botany
Wetland Science Program
Illinois Natural History Survey

Address and Contact Information

2024 I-Building
1816 S. Oak St.
M/C 652
Champaign, IL  61820
(217) 333-8459
https://orcid.org/0009-0006-3495-1412
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Research Interests

My research interests include studying the plant communities and floristic composition of natural areas throughout Illinois. I am also interested in studying closely related species complexes (especially in the genus Carex) using macro and micro morphological characters.

Research Biography

Professional Affiliations

Illinois Native Plant Society, at-large board member

Member of the Natural Areas Association
Member of the Society of Wetland Scientists
Member of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society
Member of the New England Botanical Club
Member of the Grand Prairie Friends

Honors and Awards

1996 Outstanding Science graduate, B.S. Natural Science, Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio.
1996 Graduated Magna Cum Laude, B.S. Natural Science, Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio.
1998 Hemlepp Foundation Graduate Research Award, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia.
1999 Passed oral comprehensive examination and thesis defense for M.S. Biological Sciences with Distinction (highest level of performance), Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia.
2012 to 2014 Illinois Endangered Species Protection Board, Technical Expert Consultant (Plants).

Selected Publications

Ebinger, John E., Loy R. Phillippe, Michael J.C. Murphy, Gordon C. Tucker, and Paul B. Marcum. 2010. Vascular plant species extirpated or not vouchered as occurring in Illinois. Erigenia 23:3-23.

Marcum, Paul B., Loy R. Phillippe, Daniel T. Busemeyer and John E. Ebinger. 2010. Vascular Flora and Woody Structure and Composition at Gooseberry Island Nature Preserve, Kankakee County, Illinois. Castanea 75(3):341-352.

Busemeyer, Daniel T., Loy R. Phillippe, Paul B. Marcum and John E. Ebinger. 2010. Vascular Flora of Iroquois Woods Nature Preserve, Kankakee County, Illinois. Castanea 75(3):330-340.

Phillippe, Loy R., Paul B. Marcum, Daniel T. Busemeyer and John E. Ebinger. 2010. Vascular Flora of Short Pioneer Cemetery Prairie Nature Preserve, Grundy County, Illinois: composition and change since 1977. Erigenia 24:5-11.

Phillippe, Loy R., Mary Ann Feist, Richard L. Larimore, Daniel T. Busemeyer, Paul B. Marcum, Connie J. Carroll-Cunningham, James L. Ellis and John E. Ebinger. 2010. Vegetation of Hooper Branch Nature Preserve, Iroquois County, Illinois. Northeastern Naturalist 17(2):261-272.

Phillippe, Loy R., Mary Ann Feist, Daniel T. Busemeyer, Paul B. Marcum, Connie J. Carroll, Greg R. Spyreas and John E. Ebinger.2011. Vegetation of forest and savanna communities on glacial sand deposits in northeastern Illinois. Southeastern Naturalist 56(1):54-60.

Ebinger, John E., Loy R. Phillippe, and Paul B. Marcum. 2011. Vegetation of Wilmington Shrub Prairie Nature Preserve, Will County, Illinois. Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science 104(1&2):1-16.

Loy R. Phillippe, Brenda Molano-Flores, Michael J.C. Murphy, Paul B. Marcum, and John E. Ebinger. 2011. Status of Endangered and Threatened Sand Area Species of the Illinois Flora. Illinois Natural History Survey Bulletin 39(4):259-296.

Phillippe, Loy R., Paul B. Marcum, and John E. Ebinger. 2012. Vegetation of Sand Ridge Savanna Nature Preserve, Will County, Illinois. Erigenia 25:23-35.

Marcum, Paul B. and David M. Ketzner. 2012. Lythrum hyssopifolia L. (hyssop loosestrife or grass poly; Lythraceae), a new species in the Illinois flora. Castanea 77(3):270-272.
 
Phillippe, Loy R., Paul B. Marcum, Daniel T. Busemeyer, William E. McClain, Mary Ann Feist, and John E. Ebinger. 2013. Changes due to fire suppression in a Quercus velutina Lam. (Black Oak) Savanna at Sand Ridge State Forest, Mason County, Illinois. Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science 106:23-26.
 
Marcum, Paul B., Loy R. Phillippe, and John E. Ebinger. 2013. Vascular flora of the Sand Ridge State Forest, Mason County, Illinois. Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science 106:39-46.

Education

MS, Biological Sciences, Marshall University, Huntington, WV, 1999

BS, Natural Science, Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, OH, 1996

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