Jay Stauffer Jr.

Affiliate Researcher
Titles and Affiliations
Distinguished Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management

Research Summary

Research interests include endangered fishes, freshwater fish behavior, impact of introduced fishes, and systematics and zoogeography of freshwater fishes. 

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Recent Publications

Temperature preference of the Chesapeake logperch, Percina bimaculata

Bucha, A. F., Boyer, E. W. & Stauffer, J. R., 2026, In: Journal of Freshwater Ecology. 41, 1, 2731981.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Non-Avoidance of Lethal Temperatures of the Introduced Round Goby, Neogobius melanostomus

Carson, M. A., Boyer, E. W. & Stauffer, Jr., J. R., Jun 2026, In: Conservation. 6, 2, 44.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Maylandia (Teleostei: Cichlidae) Remains a Nomen Nudum

Konings, A. F., Geerts, M. & Stauffer, J. R., Mar 2026, In: Taxonomy. 6, 1, 3.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

Warmer Temperatures and Smaller Body Size May Favor Biological Competition of Invasive Neogobius fluviatilis with Native Gobio gobio in Central European Bioregion

Pawelec, A., Grzesiuk, M., Hauler, A. & Stauffer, J. R., Jun 2026, In: Water (Switzerland). 18, 12, 1394.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Improving Living Resource Responses in Ecosystem Restoration: An Illustration Using the Chesapeake Bay

Rose, K. A., Monaco, M. E., Ihde, T. F., Smith, E. P., Stauffer, J. R., Havens, K. J., McDonnell, L., Linker, L. C., Gootman, K. S., Vogt, B., Friedrichs, M. A. M., Fabrizio, M. C., Hawes, C. A. & Horemans, D. M. L., Jun 2026, In: Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 62, 3, e70134.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

An Assessment of Social and Ecological Factors Influencing the Management and Productivity of Smallholder Aquacultural Systems in Northern Province, Zambia

Johnson, J. W., Jacobson, M. G., Cole, S. M., Syapwaya, M., Kaminski, A., Karsten, H., Stauffer, J. R., Jensen, L. & Lundeba, M., 2025, In: Aquaculture Research. 2025, 1, 9635984.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Strategies for feeding tilapia in smallholder aquaculture systems: a study of aquaculture feed access and availability in two districts of Northern Province, Zambia

Johnson, J. W., Jacobson, M., Cole, S., Kaminski, A., Karsten, H., Syapwaya, M., Stauffer, J., Jensen, L. & Lundeba, M., 2025, In: Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems. 49, 3, p. 351-379 29 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Hydropower reservoirs - Their potential association with transmission of trematodes in Vietnam

Le, A. H., Nguyen, H. V., Van Hoang, H., Tran, T. A., Nguyen, C. N., Nguyen, B. N., Nguyen, H. T., Greiman, S. E., Stauffer, J. R., Madsen, H. & Nguyen, M. H., Feb 10 2025, In: Journal of Helminthology. 99, e23.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Application of the European Non-native Species in Aquaculture Risk Analysis Scheme to evaluate Micropterus nigricans in China

Li, S., Wei, H., Kang, B., Li, F., Xu, D., Xu, X., Gu, D. & Stauffer, J. R., Jan 2025, In: Management of Biological Invasions. 16, 1 Special Issue, p. 153-165 13 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Changing Scientific Names: A Commentary

Stauffer, J. R., 2025, In: Reviews in Fisheries Science and Aquaculture. 33, 4, p. 657-660 4 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review

Speciation of invasive fishes

Stauffer, J. R., 2025, In: European Zoological Journal. 92, 1, p. 1159-1170 12 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Endemic and Invasive Species: A History of Distributional Trends in the Fish Fauna of the Lower New River Drainage

Welsh, S. A., Cincotta, D. A., Owens, N. V. & Stauffer, J. R., Jan 2025, In: Water (Switzerland). 17, 2, 221.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Status and Distribution of the Chesapeake Logperch Percina bimaculata Haldeman, 1844 in Pennsylvania

Fischer, D. P., Criswell, R. W., Henning, A. M., Test, J. T. & Stauffer, J. R., Sep 2024, In: Water (Switzerland). 16, 17, 2466.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Genomic evaluation of mud sunfish in the atlantic slope drainage

Knott, S., Raesly, R., Hocking, D., Stauffer, J. & Welsh, A., Aug 2024, In: Fisheries Research. 276, 107043.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Description of a rock-dwelling cichlid that re-invaded the sand substrate in Lake Malaŵi, Africa

Konings, A. F., Miller, T. A. & Stauffer, J. R., 2024, In: Zootaxa. 5399, 2, p. 181-189 9 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review