Eric J. Gangloff

Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences

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Eric Gangloff's research addresses the big question of how organisms will respond to this rapidly changing world. With a special focus on reptiles and amphibians, his work utilizes an integrative approach that combines field observations, controlled lab experiments, and molecular techniques to identify the mechanisms that allow – or limit – the success of individuals and populations. For example, recent work examines how temperature and oxygen availability interact to affect the physiology, performance, and reproduction of the common wall lizard in Europe. He also continues work on a fascinating system of garter snake populations in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of Northern California, examining how physiology, behavior, and immune function covary with life-history traits. Here in Ohio, he is beginning work as part of a broad network of researchers to investigate how individual variation in behavior and physiology can scale up to affect population dynamics and species distributions in the widespread red-backed salamander. Most recently, the lab has focused on established populations of the common wall lizard here in Ohio. This work has recently received funding from the National Science Foundation for a project titled "BRC-BIO: Success in the Anthropocene: Evolutionary Ecology of the Common Wall Lizard in Ohio" (.) 

His work is highly collaborative, including partnerships with researchers from France especially, as well as Canada, Argentina, Portugal, Australia, and across the U.S.

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Selected Recent Publications