Donald Pereira

Donald Pereira serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota, conducting research in fisheries population dynamics and watershed management. He maintains external collaboration with HDR, Inc. and utilizes the university's extensive fish community databases for his work.

Education:

• Ph.D., University of Minnesota

His research spans Minnesota's large walleye lakes and diverse water bodies, focusing on percid fish recruitment mechanisms (walleye and yellow perch), harvest management regime development, and climate-driven fish dynamics. Current projects include freshwater drum biochronology across spatial scales and developing lake biotic integrity indices. Future work targets spatially explicit watershed management models for metropolitan water quality protection.

Publications reveal consistent expertise in fisheries modeling, with recent emphasis on vegetation-removal impacts on lake ecosystems, historical analysis of temperature-recruitment relationships in freshwater drum, and comparative studies of fish reproductive strategies under varying fishing pressures.