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
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.

Duffy, D. 1993. Stalking the Southern Oscillation: environmental uncertainty, climate change and North Pacific seabirds. In: Vermeer K, Briggs KT, Morgan KH, Siegel- Causey D, editors. The Status, Ecology and Conservation of Marine Birds of the North Pacific. Ottawa: Canadian Wildlife Service. p 61-67. (special publication)

Duffy D, Meier. 1992. Do Appalachian herbaceous understories ever recover from clearcutting? Conserv Biol 6:196-201.

Duffy D. 1983. The ecology of tick parasitism on densely nesting Peruvian seabirds. Ecology 64:110-119.

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