Dr. Dustin Ranglack
Associate Professor
Office:
BHS
343 |
Phone: (308) 865-8545 |
Email: ranglackdh@unk.edu
Biography
Areas of Interest:
- Large mammal ecology and management, Wildlife space use, Predator-prey interactions, Human-wildlife conflict
Degrees:
Professional Affiliations:
- British Ecological Society
- Ecological Society of America
- Society for Conservation Biology
- The Wildlife Society
Dissertation:
- Ranglack, D.H. 2014. American bison ecology and bison-cattle interactions in an isolated montane environment. Ph. D. Dissertation, Utah State University, Logan, Utah. 144 pp.
Publications:
- Schlater, S.M., Ringenberg, J.M., Bickford, N., and Ranglack, D.H. 2021. White-tailed jackrabbits (Lepus townsendii): A review and call for research. Southwestern Naturalist 65(2):161-172.
- Grace, M.K., Akcakaya, H.R., Bennett, E.L.,...Ranglack, D.H., and et al. 2021. Testing a global standard for quantifying species recovery and assessing conservation impact. Conservation Biology https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cobi.13756.
- Caven, A.J., Leung, K.G., Vinton, C., Krohn, B., Wiese, J. D., Slater, J., and Ranglack, D.H. 2021. A behavioral index for assessing bison stress level during handling and demographic predictors of stress response. Journal of Applied Animal Welfare doi: 10.1080/10888705.2021.1963250.
- Peterson, B.C., Farrell, P.D., Fehlhafer, D., Reinson, M.C., and Ranglack, D.H. 2021. Antler casting phenology and a late-breeding observation by white-tailed deer. Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences 41:29–41.
- Ritson, R., Ranglack, D.H., and Bickford, N. 2019. Comparing social media observations of animals during a solar eclipse to published research. Animals 9(2):59.
- King, K.C., Caven, A.J., Leung, K.G., Ranglack, D.H., and Arcilla, N. 2019. High society: behavioral patterns as a feedback loop to social structure in Plains bison (Bison bison bison). Mammal Research https://doi.org/10.1007/s13364-019-00416-7
- O’Connor, B., Fryda, N.J., and Ranglack, D.H. 2018. Effects of environmental and anthropogenic landscape features on harvest of mule deer in Nebraska. PeerJ 6:e5510. (open access)
- Bickford, N.A., Smith, L., Bickford, S., Bice, M., and Ranglack, D.H. 2017. Evaluating the role of CSR and SLO in ecotourism: collaboration for economic and environmental sustainability of Arctic resources. Resources 6(2): 21.
- Ranglack, D.H., Neuman-Lee, L.A., French, S.S., and du Toit, J.T. 2017. Considerations of context and scale when using fecal glucocorticoids to indicate stress in large mammals: a study of wild American plains bison. Southwestern Naturalist 62(1): 62-68.
- Ranglack, D.H., Proffitt, K.M., Canfield, J.E., Gude, J.A., Rotella, J.J., and Garrott, R.A. 2017. Security areas for maintaining elk on publically accessible lands during archery and rifle hunting seasons in western Montana. Journal of Wildlife Management DOI: 10.1002/jwmg.21258.
- Ranglack, D.H., Dobson, L.K., du Toit, J.T., and Derr, J. 2015. Genetic analysis of the Henry Mountains bison population. PLoS ONE 10(12): e0144239.
- Ranglack, D.H. and du Toit, J.T. 2015. Habitat selection by free-ranging bison in a mixed grazing system on public land. Rangeland Ecology and Management 68(4): 349-353.
- Ranglack, D.H. and du Toit, J.T. 2015. Bison with benefits: towards integrating wildlife and ranching sectors on a public rangeland in the western USA. Oryx DOI: 10.1017/S0030605314001197
- Ranglack, D.H. and du Toit, J.T. 2015. Wild bison as ecological indicators of the effectiveness of management practices to increase forage quality on open rangeland. Ecological Indicators 56:145-151.
- Ranglack, D.H., Durham, S.L., and du Toit, J.T. 2015. Competition on the range: science versus perception in a bison-cattle conflict in the western USA. Journal of Applied Ecology 52(2):467-474. (Editor's choice, Southwood Prize)
- Koons, D.N., Terletzky, P., Adler, P.B., Wolfe, M.L., Ranglack, D.H., Howe, F.P., Hersey, K., Paskett, W., and du Toit, J.T. 2012. Climate and density-dependent drivers of recruitment in plains bison. Journal of Mammalogy 93(2): 475-481.