David Duffy
Ph.D. Princeton, 1980
Professor of Botany; Unit Leader, Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit (PCSU)
Department of Botany
University of Hawai’i
3190 Maile Way St. John 410
Honolulu, HI 96822-2279
phone: (808) 956-8218
dduffy@hawaii.edu
www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/duffy/default.htm

Research Interests
I am interested in how species, ecosystems and landscapes recover from perturbations, both man-made and natural. My interests have focused on seabirds but have ranged from schooling fish to El Niño to forest herbs to ticks and Lyme Disease. Most recently I have become interested in successful strategies for recovery of native ecosystems in Hawaii.

Representative publications
Duffy. 2009. Bird diseases. In Encyclopedia of Islands (Gillespie and
Clague, eds.), University of California Press

Kraus and Duffy. 2009 A successful model from Hawaii for rapid response
to invasive species. Journal for Nature Conservation

Duffy and Kraus. 2008. Taking Medawar's medicine: science as the ?art
of the soluble? for Hawaii's terrestrial extinction crisis. Pacific
Conservation Biology 14: 80-88.

Hebshi, Duffy and Hyrenbach. 2008. Associations between seabirds and
subsurface predators around Oahu, Hawaii. Aquatic Biology. 4: 8998

Foster, Woodworth, Eggert, Palmer, Duffy, and Fleischer. 2007. Avian
malaria (Plasmodium relictum) and the origins of resistant
populations of Hawaiian Honeycreepers. Molecular Ecology 16: 4738-4746.

Porter, Vakharia, Klousie and Duffy. 2006/ Po'ouli landscape
bioinformatics models predict energetics, behavior, diets, and
distribution on Maui. Integrative and Comparative Biology 46: 1143-1158

Woodworth, B. L., C. Atkinson, D. A. LaPointe, P. J. Hart, E. J. Tweed, C. Henneman, C. Spiegel, T. Denette, J. LeBrun, K. L. Kozar, D. Triglia, D. Lease, A. Gregor, T. Smith, and D. Duffy. 2005. Host population persistence in the face of emerging disease: Hawaii amakihi and avian malaria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102:1531-1536.

Duffy, Boggs, Hagenstein, Michaelson and Lipkin. 1999. A landscape assessment of the degree of protection of Alaska’s terrestrial biodiversity. Conserv. Biol. 13: 1332-1343.

Olsen, Duffy, Jaenson and Bergstrom. 1995. Transhemispheric exchange of Lyme disease spirochetes. J Clin Microbiol 1995:3270-3274.

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