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Overview

Pavel Jurajda is affiliated with the Czech Academy of Sciences in the Czech Republic, focusing primarily on environmental science. Their research spans several interconnected subfields, including ecology, nature and landscape conservation, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, aquatic science, and genetics.

The scientist's main topics of investigation cover fish ecology and management studies, parasite biology and host interactions, aquatic invertebrate ecology and behavior, fish biology and ecology studies, genetic diversity and population structure, hydrology and sediment transport processes, and environmental toxicology and ecotoxicology.

Frequent collaborators include Michal Janáč, Markéta Ondračková, Luděk Šlapanský, Yuriy Kvach, and Kevin Roche, reflecting a network of research partners with overlapping interests in aquatic ecosystems and parasitology.

Publication venues in which Pavel Jurajda has frequently published are:

  • Journal of Vertebrate Biology
  • Hydrobiologia
  • Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology
  • Parasitology
  • Water

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Pavel Jurajda include:

  • Parasite infection reflects host genetic diversity among non-native populations of pumpkinseed sunfish in Europe, 2020, Hydrobiologia
  • Morphometric and genetic evidence for cryptic diversity in Gyrodactylus (Monogenea) infecting non-native European populations of Ameiurus nebulosus and A. melas, 2020, Parasitology
  • The importance of rip-rap for round goby invasion success - a field habitat manipulation experiment, 2021, Journal of Vertebrate Biology
  • Non-native gobies share predominantly immature parasites with local fish hosts, 2021, Journal of Vertebrate Biology
  • Associations between pharmaceutical contaminants, parasite load and health status in brown trout exposed to sewage effluent in a small stream, 2020, Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology

The scientist's work contributes to understanding ecological interactions between fish species, the spread and impact of parasites in aquatic environments, and the effects of environmental pollutants on aquatic wildlife health.

Best Publications

  • The reproductive ecology of the European bitterling (Rhodeus sericeus)

    Carl Smith;Martin Reichard;Martin Reichard;Pavel Jurajda;Mirosław Przybylski

  • A review of Gobiid expansion along the Danube-Rhine corridor – geopolitical change as a driver for invasion

    K.F. Roche;M. Janač;P. Jurajda

  • Non‐native Gobiid species in the lower River Rhine (Germany): recent range extensions and densities

    J. Borcherding;S. Staas;S. Kruger;M. Ondračková

  • Do small riverine fish move inshore at night

    G. H. Copp;P. Jurajda

  • Adaptive host choice and avoidance of superparasitism in the spawning decisions of bitterling (Rhodeus sericeus)

    Carl Smith;John D. Reynolds;William J. Sutherland;Pavel Jurajda

  • Effect of channelization and regulation on fish recruitment in a flood plain river

    Pavel Jurajda

  • Male-male interference competition decreases spawning rate in the European bitterling (Rhodeus sericeus)

    Martin Reichard;Martin Reichard;Pavel Jurajda;Carl Smith;Carl Smith

  • A proximate cue for oviposition site choice in the bitterling (Rhodeus sericeus)

    Carl Smith;Karina Rippon;Alex Douglas;Pavel Jurajda

  • Invasive gobies in the Danube: invasion success facilitated by availability and selection of superior food resources

    Matej Polačik;Michal Janáč;Michal Janáč;Pavel Jurajda;Zdenek Adámek

  • Metazoan parasites of Neogobius fishes in the Slovak section of the River Danube

    Markéta Ondračková;Martina Dávidová;Martina Pečínková;Radim Blažek

  • Seasonal changes of immunocompetence and parasitism in chub ( Leuciscus cephalus ), a freshwater cyprinid fish

    Karolína Lamková;Andrea Šimková;Miroslava Palíková;Pavel Jurajda

  • Size-structured diel use of river banks by fish

    Gordon H. Copp;Pavel Jurajda

  • Downstream drift of round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) and tubenose goby (Proterorhinus semilunaris) in their non‐native area

    Michal Janáč;Luděk Šlapanský;Zdenka Valová;Pavel Jurajda

  • Interannual variability in seasonal dynamics and species composition of drifting young‐of‐the‐year fishes in two European lowland rivers

    M. Reichard;M. Reichard;P. Jurajda;M. Ondračkovaá;M. Ondračkovaá

  • Biodiversity of parasites in freshwater environment in relation to pollution.

    Milan Gelnar;Šárka Šebelová;Ladislav Dušek;Božena Koubková

  • Response of fish assemblages to hydromorphological restoration in central and northern European rivers

    Stefan Schmutz;Pavel Jurajda;Simon Kaufmann;Armin W. Lorenz

  • Comparative nursery habitat use by 0+ fish in a modified lowland river

    P. Jurajda

  • Parasite fauna of native and non‐native populations of Neogobius melanostomus (Pallas, 1814) (Gobiidae) in the longitudinal profile of the Danube River

    Kateřina Francová;Kateřina Francová;Markéta Ondračková;Markéta Ondračková;Matej Polačik;Pavel Jurajda

  • The distribution and abundance of the Neogobius fishes in their native range (Bulgaria) with notes on the non-native range in the Danube River

    Matej Polačik;Michal Janáč;T. Trichkova;M. Vassilev

  • Spatial distribution of drifting cyprinid fishes in a shallow lowland river

    Martin Reichard;Pavel Jurajda;Carl Smith

  • Parasitism, life history traits and immune defence in cyprinid fish from Central Europe

    Andrea Vetešníková Šimková;Thomas Lafond;Markéta Ondračková;Markéta Ondračková;Pavel Jurajda

  • Assessment of sperm competition by European bitterling, Rhodeus sericeus

    Carl Smith;Martin Reichard;Martin Reichard;Pavel Jurajda

  • Sexual conflict, sexual selection and sperm competition in the spawning decisions of bitterling, Rhodeus sericeus

    Carl Smith;Alex Douglas;Pavel Jurajda

  • Report on metazoan parasites of fishes of the River Morava with remarks on the effects of water pollution.

    M. Gelnar;B. Koubková;H. Pláňková;P. Jurajda

Frequent Co-Authors

Milan Gelnar
Milan Gelnar Masaryk University
Martin Reichard
Martin Reichard Czech Academy of Sciences
Carl Smith
Carl Smith University of Łódź
Tomas Randak
Tomas Randak Masaryk University
Gordon H. Copp
Gordon H. Copp Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
Armin W. Lorenz
Armin W. Lorenz University of Duisburg-Essen
Christian Wolter
Christian Wolter Leibniz Association
Josef Bryja
Josef Bryja Czech Academy of Sciences
Leif Asbjørn Vøllestad
Leif Asbjørn Vøllestad University of Oslo

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