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Nancy Huntly is an American ecologist based at Utah State University, where she is a Professor in the Department of Biology and director of the USU Ecology Center. Her research has been on biodiversity, herbivory, and long-term human ecology. She started her position at USU in 2011, after serving as a Program Officer in the Division of Environmental Biology at the National Science Foundation. Prior to that she was a faculty member in the Department of Biological Sciences at Idaho State University (Pocatello).

Academic training
Huntly is a native of northern Michigan. She earned a bachelor’s degrees from Kalamazoo College in 1977. She completed a doctorate in ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona in 1985. Fieldwork for her dissertation (The influence of herbivores on plant communities: experimental studies of a subalpine meadow ecosystem) was carried out at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Colorado. She was a Postdoctoral researcher (1982 - 1986) with Dr. David Tilman at the University of Minnesota before beginning her first faculty position, a year-long appointment at Earlham College.

Awards and Honors
In 2018 Huntly was named a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America

Skaggs Alaska Scientist in Residence, Sitka Sound Science Center, 2014

Idaho State University, Distinguished Researcher, 2007

Idaho State University, Outstanding Researcher, 2006

NERC Centre for Population Biology, Visiting Scientist, 2002

Publications
In 1995, Huntly published a chapter (How Important Are Consumer Species To Ecosystem Functioning) in the book Linking Species & Ecosystems. In 2004 she and 2 co-editors published the book Ecology: Achievement and Challenge, from a symposium of the British Ecological Society. She has also published five book chapters about ecological approaches to land use management, the food web on Alaska’s Sanak island, and an ecological coexistence mechanism called the storage effect. Additionally Huntly has contributed to 33 ecological journal articles in journals such as the Western North American Naturalist, Journal of Mammalogy, and the Great Basin Naturalist.

Her top five most cited publications (as of April 2023):


 * Huntly, N. 1991. Herbivores and the Dynamics of Communities and Ecosystems. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 22:477-503.
 * Chesson, P., and N. Huntly. 1997. The Roles of Harsh and Fluctuating Conditions in the Dynamics of Ecological Communities. The American Naturalist 150:519-553.
 * Dale, V. H., S. Brown, R. A. Haeuber, N. T. Hobbs, N. Huntly, R. J. Naiman, W. E. Riebsame, M. G. Turner, and T. J. Valone. 2000. Ecological Principles and Guidelines for Managing the Use of Land. Ecological Applications 10:639-670.
 * Chesson, P., R. L. E. Gebauer, S. Schwinning, N. Huntly, K. Wiegand, 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.
 * Inouye, R. S., N. J. Huntly, D. Tilman, J. R. Tester, M. Stillwell, and K. C. Zinnel. 1987. Old-field succession on a Minnesota sand plain. Ecology 68:12-26.