Nancy J. Huntly, Ph.D.
Professor of Ecology
huntnanc@isu.edu
(208) 282-2149
Room 443 Gale Life Sciences Bldg
The Huntly lab
population and community ecology, ecology of arctic and arid environments, ecology of rural communities and landscapes, food web dynamics
Education
B.A., 1977, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI
Ph.D, 1985, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Pre- and Post-doctoral Scientist, 1982-86, University of Minnesota, MN
Biographical Sketch
Nancy Huntly received her PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of Arizona in 1985 and joined the faculty of Idaho State University in 1986. Her general research interests are in population and community ecology, and she and her students have studied the ecology of Western landscapes from perspectives that range from behavioral to food web and ecosystem dynamics. Nancy also devotes considerable time to the interface of science with its applications in natural resource use and husbandry. Current research in the Huntly Lab is sited in sage-steppe and tundra-maritime ecosystems, with active research in the Pacific Northwest states and Alaska. Work in sage-steppe centers on understanding the biodiversity and persistence of sage-steppe plant and animal communities in the much-used and increasingly fragmented sage-steppe landscape. Work in Alaska is intended to produce better understanding of the history and roles of people in the ecosystems that sustain them and includes collaboration with archaeologists, paleoecologists, climatologists, geomorphologists, marine and terrestrial ecologists, and social/cultural anthropologists. The central goal of this research is to reconstruct and understand the long-term dynamics of the Aleut, the indigenous people of the Aleutian region, and the North Atlantic/coastal tundra ecosystem of which they have been a part for millennia. We believe that such an understanding can be used to promote the ecological and cultural persistence of the Aleut, as well as that of other people and societies.
Teaching
BIOL 416/516, Population and Community Ecology BIOL 606, Scientific Writing
BIOL 616, Advanced Community Ecology
BIOL 691, graduate topical seminar
BIOL 493, Senior Thesis
Publications (*graduate student, ** = undergraduate student)
Hanser *, S. and N. Huntly. 2006. The biogeography of mammals of fragmented sagebrush-steppe landscapes. Journal of Mammalogy, in press.
Gilliland ** , K.D., N. Huntly, and J.E. Anderson. 2006. Age and population structure of Joshua trees (Yucca brevifolia) in the northwestern Mojave Desert . Western North American Naturalist 66:202-208..
Hayes * , A. and N. Huntly. 2005. Effects of wind on the behavior and call transmission of pikas (Ochotona princeps ). Journal of Mammalogy 86:974-981.
Chesson, P., R.L.E. Gebauer, S. Schwinning, N. Huntly, K. Weigand, M.S.K. Ernest, A. Sher, A. Novoplansky, and J.F. Weltzin. 2004. Resource pulses, species interactions, and diversity maintenance in arid and semi-arid environments. Oecologia 141:236-253.
Kreuzer * , M.P., Jr. and N. Huntly. 2003. Habitat-specific demography: evidence for source-sink population structure in a mammal, the pika. Oecologia 134:343-349.
Ostrow * , D.G., N. Huntly, and R.S. Inouye. 2002. Plant-mediated interactions between the northern pocket gopher, Thomomys talpoides , and aboveground herbivorous insects. Journal of Mammalogy 83: 991-998.
Roach *, W.J., N. Huntly, and R.S. Inouye. 2001. Talus fragmentation mitigates the effects of pikas, Ochotona princeps, on alpine meadows. Oikos 92:315-324.
Witt * , W.C. and N. Huntly. 2001. The effects of isolation on red-backed voles (Clethrionomys gapperi ) and deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus ) in a sage-steppe matrix. Canadian Journal of Zoology 79:1597-1603.
Dale, V.H., S. Brown, R. Haeuber, N.T. Hobbs, N. Huntly, R. Naiman, W. Riebsame, M. Turner, and T.J. Valone. 2000. Ecological principles and guidelines for managing the use of land. Ecological Applications 10:639-670.
Sirotnak *, J.M. and N.J. Huntly. 2000. Direct and indirect effects of herbivores on nitrogen dynamics: voles in riparian areas. Ecology 81:78-87.
Aho **, K., N. Huntly, J.P.G. Moen, and T. Oksanen. 1998. Pikas (Ochotona princeps) as allogenic ecosystem-engineers in alpine and subalpine ecosystems. Oecologia 114:405-409.
Chesson, P. and N. Huntly. 1997. The roles of harsh and fluctuating conditions in the dynamics of ecological communities. American Naturalist 150:519-553.
Huntly, N. 1995. How important are consumer species to ecosystem functioning? In, C.G. Jones and J.H. Lawton (eds.), Linking Species and Ecosystems. Chapman and Hall.
Frank, D.A., R.S. Inouye, N. Huntly, G.W. Minshall, and J.E. Anderson. 1994. Biogeochemistry of a north-temperate grassland with native grazers: nitrogen dynamics in Yellowstone National Park. Biogeochemistry 26:163-188.
Huntly, N. 1991. Herbivores and the dynamics of communities and ecosystems. Annual Review of Ecology & Systematics 22:477-503.