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

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 journalArticlepeer-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 journalArticlepeer-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 journalArticlepeer-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 journalArticlepeer-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 journalArticlepeer-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 journalArticlepeer-review

Aquaculture of Animal Species: Their Eukaryotic Parasites and the Control of Parasitic Infections

Madsen, H. & Stauffer, J. R., Jan 2024, In: Biology. 13, 1, 41.

Research output: Contribution to journalReview articlepeer-review

Morphological Analysis of a New Species of Micropterus (Teleostei: Centrarchidae) from Lake Erie, PA, USA

Ross, A. T. & Stauffer, J. R., Sep 2024, In: Biology. 13, 9, 660.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Changing Scientific Names: A Commentary

Stauffer, J. R., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Reviews in Fisheries Science and Aquaculture.

Research output: Contribution to journalComment/debatepeer-review

Diet and Habitat Comparison of Two Closely Related Darters (Percina bimaculata and Percina caprodes)

Stylianides, A. G., Mueller, S. J. & Stauffer, J. R., Dec 2024, In: Conservation. 4, 4, p. 594-608 15 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Description of a geographically variable elongate rock-dwelling cichlid (Cichliformes: Cichlidae) from Lake Malawi, Africa

Stauffer, J. R. & Konings, A. F., 2023, In: Zootaxa. 5296, 2, p. 265-274 10 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Morphological Comparison of the Chesapeake Logperch Percina bimaculata with the Logperch Percina c. caprodes and Percina c. semifasciata in Pennsylvania

Stauffer, J. R., Freedman, J. A., Fischer, D. P. & Criswell, R. W., Jun 2023, In: Fishes. 8, 6, 288.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Freshwater unionid mussels threatened by predation of Round Goby (Neogobius melanostomus)

Clark, K. H., Iwanowicz, D. D., Iwanowicz, L. R., Mueller, S. J., Wisor, J. M., Bradshaw-Wilson, C., Schill, W. B., Stauffer, J. R. & Boyer, E. W., Dec 2022, In: Scientific reports. 12, 1, 12859.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

A One Health Approach Relative to Trematode-Caused Diseases of People and Animals Associated with Aquaculture

Madsen, H., Nguyen, H. M., Lanza, G. R. & Stauffer, J. R., 2022, In: Reviews in Fisheries Science and Aquaculture. 30, 4, p. 542-566 25 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalReview articlepeer-review

Schistosomiasis Control Under Changing Ecological Settings in Lake Malawi

Madsen, H. & Stauffer, J. R., Sep 2022, In: EcoHealth. 19, 3, p. 320-323 4 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review