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Jeffrey J. Duda is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on several specialized subfields. These include Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Water Science and Technology, Molecular Biology, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The scientist's work covers a range of key topics in environmental and ecological research. Their principal areas of study include Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Identification and Quantification in Food, and Freshwater Macroinvertebrate Diversity and Ecology.

Jeffrey J. Duda has published in multiple scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets include Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Environmental DNA, Scientific Reports, Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, and Freshwater Science.

Selected recent publications demonstrate the breadth and focus of their research:

  • Environmental DNA is an effective tool to track recolonizing migratory fish following large-scale dam removal, 2020, Environmental DNA
  • Reconnecting the Elwha River: Spatial Patterns of Fish Response to Dam Removal, 2021, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Toward a national eDNA strategy for the United States, 2023, Environmental DNA
  • Riverscape approaches in practice: perspectives and applications, 2021, Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Use of environmental DNA to detect the invasive aquatic plants Myriophyllum spicatum and Egeria densa in lakes, 2020, Freshwater Science

Jeffrey J. Duda frequently collaborates with several researchers in their field. Frequent co-authors include:

  • George R. Pess
  • R C Johnson
  • Samuel J. Brenkman
  • Roger J. Peters
  • Carl O. Ostberg

Best Publications

  • Concentrations of environmental DNA (eDNA) reflect spawning salmon abundance at fine spatial and temporal scales

    Michael D. Tillotson;Ryan P. Kelly;Jeffrey J. Duda;Marshal S. Hoy

  • Large-scale dam removal on the Elwha River, Washington, USA: River channel and floodplain geomorphic change

    Amy E. East;George R. Pess;Jennifer A. Bountry;Christopher S. Magirl

  • Dam removal: Listening in

    Melissa M. Foley;James Bellmore;James E. O'Connor;Jeffrey J. Duda

  • Differences in native soil ecology associated with invasion of the exotic annual chenopod, Halogeton glomeratus

    Jeffrey J. Duda;Jeffrey J. Duda;D. Carl Freeman;John M. Emlen;Jayne Belnap

  • Effects of drought on desert tortoise movement and activity

    Jeffrey J. Duda;Anthony J. Krzysik;Jerome E. Freilich

  • Conceptualizing Ecological Responses to Dam Removal: If You Remove It, What's to Come?

    J Ryan Bellmore;George R Pess;Jeffrey J Duda;Jim E O’Connor

  • Baseline Studies in the Elwha River Ecosystem Prior to Dam Removal: Introduction to the Special Issue

    Jeffrey J. Duda;Jerry E. Freilich;Edward G. Schreiner

  • The humpbacked species richness-curve: A contingent rule for community ecology

    John H. Graham;Jeffrey J. Duda

  • Species richness, equitability, and abundance of ants in disturbed landscapes

    John H. Graham;Anthony J. Krzysik;David A. Kovacic;Jeffrey J. Duda

  • Riverscape approaches in practice: perspectives and applications.

    Christian E. Torgersen;Céline Le Pichon;Aimee H. Fullerton;Stephen J. Dugdale

  • Ecological Effects of Ranching: A Six-Point Critique

    Jerome E. Freilich;John M. Emlen;Jeffrey J. Duda;D. Carl Freeman

  • Habitat disturbance and the diversity and abundance of ants (Formicidae) in the Southeastern Fall-Line Sandhills.

    John H. Graham;Hoyt H. Hughie;Susan Jones;Kerri Wrinn;Kerri Wrinn

  • Linking habitat quality with trophic performance of steelhead along forest gradients in the South Fork Trinity River Watershed, California

    Sarah G. McCarthy;Jeffrey J. Duda;John M. Emlen;Garth R. Hodgson

  • Toward a national eDNA strategy for the United States

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  • A riverscape perspective of Pacific salmonids and aquatic habitats prior to large-scale dam removal in the Elwha River, Washington, USA

    S. J. Brenkman;Jeff J. Duda;Christian E. Torgersen;Ethan Welty

  • Benthic Invertebrates and Periphyton in the Elwha River Basin: Current Conditions and Predicted Response to Dam Removal

    Sarah A. Morley;Jeffrey J. Duda;Holly J. Coe;Kristopher K. Kloehn

  • Leaf fluctuating asymmetry, soil disturbance and plant stress: A multiple year comparison using two herbs, Ipomoea pandurata and Cnidoscolus stimulosus

    D. Carl Freeman;Michelle L. Brown;Jeffrey J. Duda;John H. Graraham

  • Predicting Recolonization Patterns and Interactions Between Potamodromous and Anadromous Salmonids in Response to Dam Removal in the Elwha River, Washington State, USA

    Samuel J. Brenkman;George R. Pess;Christian E. Torgersen;Kristofer K. Kloehn

  • Reconnecting the Elwha River: Spatial Patterns of Fish Response to Dam Removal

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  • The rapid return of marine-derived nutrients to a freshwater food web following dam removal

    Christopher M Tonra;Christopher M Tonra;Kimberly A. Sager-Fradkin;Sarah A. Morley;Jeffrey J. Duda

  • Coastal habitat and biological community response to dam removal on the Elwha River

    Melissa M. Foley;Jonathan A. Warrick;Andrew C. Ritchie;Andrew C. Ritchie;Andrew W. Stevens

  • Costs of living for juvenile Chinook salmon ( Oncorhynchus tshawytscha ) in an increasingly warming and invaded world

    Lauren M. Kuehne;Julian D. Olden;Jeffrey J. Duda

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan A. Warrick
Jonathan A. Warrick United States Geological Survey
George R. Pess
George R. Pess National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
John C. Zak
John C. Zak Texas Tech University
Guy Gelfenbaum
Guy Gelfenbaum United States Geological Survey
Patrick B. Shafroth
Patrick B. Shafroth United States Geological Survey
Timothy J. Beechie
Timothy J. Beechie National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Andrea S. Ogston
Andrea S. Ogston University of Washington
Jim E. O'Connor
Jim E. O'Connor United States Geological Survey
Thomas P. Quinn
Thomas P. Quinn University of Washington
Jon J. Major
Jon J. Major United States Geological Survey

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