Dr. Dustin Ranglack

Assistant Professor

Office: BHS 343 | Phone: (308) 865-8545 | Email: ranglackdh@unk.edu

Biography

www.ranglacklab.com

Areas of Interest:

Large mammal ecology and management, Wildlife space use, Predator-prey interactions, Human-wildlife conflict

Degrees:

B.S. (2008) – Utah State University
PhD. (2014) – Utah State University

Professional Affiliations:

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:

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.