Faculty Bio

Eric J. Gangloff

Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences

Education

• B.A., Cornell University
• M.A., University of Denver
• Ph.D., Iowa State University

About

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. Currently, the lab focuses 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" (read the public abstract here).

Additionally, we work as part of the Salamander Population & Adaptation Research Collaboration Network (SPARC-net) 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. Our research on local populations of salamanders has been supported by an NSF Research and Mentoring for Postbaccalaureates in Biological Sciences (RaMP) Grant (read the public abstract here).

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

Lab Website: https://glare-owu.wixsite.com/glare/
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/eric-gangloff.bsky.social

Selected Recent Publications

• Clusella-Trullas, S, EJ Gangloff. 2026. How does sensory integration of environmental information drive thermoregulation in lizards? Implications for environmental change responses. Journal of Experimental Biology, jeb250882. doi: 10.1242/jeb.250882

• Parks, B⁺, A Mollett⁺, EJ Gangloff, AR Litmer. 2025. The effects of meal size and feeding frequency on digestion in common wall lizards (Podarcis muralis). Journal of Experimental Biology 228:jeb250509. doi: 10.1242/jeb.250509

• Addis, EA, CM Bauer, RM Belanger, MW Butler, DC Collar, F Finseth, MD Gall, EJ Gangloff, MA Johnson, SE Lynn, JA Monroy, EM Paig-Tran, GM Pask, TK Solomon-Lane, ZR Stahlschmidt, NL Staub, JT Thompson, JF Husak. 2025. Conducting impactful research at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions. Integrative and Comparative Biology 65: 187-197. doi: 10.1093/icb/icaf101

• Haley, DX⁺, EJ Gangloff, BC Parks⁺, GH Plunkett⁺, S Spears⁺, T Williard⁺, JD Zimmerman⁺, AR Litmer. 2025. Communal nesting behaviour in an introduced population of the Common Wall Lizard, Podarcis muralis (Laurenti, 1768), in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Herpetology Notes 18: 625–627. Link to article.

• Perry, C, F Aubret, AS Chaine, ME Gifford, EH Livingston⁺, M Moore⁺, SJ Hankison, EJ Gangloff. 2025. Feeding status impacts thermoregulation and its repeatability across day and night in a diurnal lizard. Behavioral Ecology 36: araf045. doi: 10.1093/beheco/araf045

• Gangloff, EJ, AP Bishop, A Head⁺, GB Pauly, C Perry, PL Vaughn⁺, KM Winchell, KM Brock. 2025. Sex-specific morphological shifts across space and time in replicate urban wall lizard introductions. Integrative and Comparative Biology 2025: icaf060. doi: 10.1093/icb/icaf060

• Perry, C, EJ Gangloff, A Rutschmann. 2025. Warm nocturnal temperatures act as an ecological trap for a diurnal lizard. Oikos 2025: e11330. doi: 10.1002/oik.11330

• Livingston, EH⁺, AM Shevchik⁺, BL Bodensteiner, A Head⁺, C Perry, EJ Gangloff. 2025. Living in Hot Sand: The Thermal Biology of Scincus scincus, the Sandfish Skink. Journal of Herpetology 58: 376-388. doi: 10.1670/2317814

• Spears, S+, C Pettit+, S Berkowitz, S Collier, C Colwell+, EH Livingston+, W McQueen+, PL Vaughn+, BL Bodensteiner, V Leos-Barajas, EJ Gangloff. 2024. Lizards in the wind: The impact of wind on the thermoregulation of the common wall lizard. Journal of Thermal Biology 121: 103855. doi: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2024.103855
• Head, A+, A Amer+, EG Foster+, L Fraire+, EH Livingston+, MM Moore+, EJ Gangloff. 2024. Caudal regeneration in the invasive Common Wall Lizard, Podarcis muralis (Laurenti, 1768), in Ohio, USA, with a report of a rare tail trifurcation. Herpetology Notes. Link to PDF
• Alujevic, K, LA Bakewell, I Clifton, C Cox, LO Frishkoff, EJ Gangloff, G Garcia-Costoya, M Gifford, M Glenwinkel, SA Gulati, A Head+, M Miles, C Petit+, CM Watson, KL Wuthrich, M Logan. 2024. 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments. Journal of Thermal Biology 119: 103762. doi: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2023.103762
• Head, A+, PL Vaughn+, EH Livingston+, C Colwell+, MM Muñoz, EJ Gangloff. 2024. Let's include the ladies: Do morphology-performance relationships vary between sexes in lizards? Journal of Experimental Biology 227: jeb248014. doi: 10.1242/jeb.248014 
• Perry, C, T Sarraude, M Billet, E Minot, EJ Gangloff, F Aubret. 2024. Sex-dependent shifts in body size and condition along replicated elevational gradients in a montane coloniser, the Common Wall Lizard (Podarcis muralis). Oecologia. doi: 10.1007/s00442-024-05634-8
• Moore, MM+, EG Foster+, A Amer+, L Fraire+, A Head+, A Blanchette, AR Gunderson, SJ Hankison, EJ Gangloff. 2024. Urban wall lizards are resilient to high levels of blood lead. Environmental Research 264: 120248. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.120248
• Gangloff, EJ, NB Greenberg. 2023. Biology of Stress. Pp 93-142 In Health and Welfare of Captive Reptiles, 2nd Ed. Warwick, C, PC Arena, GM Burghardt. Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-86012-7
• Vaughn+, PL, C Colwell+, E Livingston+, W McQueen+, C Pettit+, S Spears+, L Tuhela, EJ Gangloff. 2023. Climbing and clinging of urban lizards are differentially affected by morphology, temperature, and substrate. Integrative Organismal Biology 5: obad006. doi: 10.1093/iob/obad006
• Amer, A+, S Spears+, PL Vaughn+, C Colwell+, EH Livingston+, W McQueen+, A Schill+, D Reichard, EJ Gangloff*, KM Brock*. Physiological phenotypes differ among color morphs in introduced populations of the common wall lizard, Podarcis muralis. Integrative Zoology 19: 505-523. doi: 10.1111/1749-4877.12775 *Co-senior author
• Palacios, MG, AM Bronikowski, A Amer+, EJ Gangloff. Transgenerational effects of maternal corticosterone across early life in a viviparous snake. 2022. General and Comparative Endocrinology 331: 114162. doi: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2022.114162 +Mentored OWU student
• Hankison, S, EJ Gangloff, B Fry, A Arnold, AJ Lashway, JM Betts, SD Otap, K Walter, MY Juergens, A Crawford. 2022. Effects of reliance on stored sperm on reproduction in the sailfin molly Poecilia latipinna. Journal of Fish Biology 101:1628-1633. doi: 10.1111/jfb.15228