Habitats are rapidly changing across the planet and the consequences will have major and
long-lasting effects on wildlife and their parasites. Birds harbor many types of blood …

Humans and wildlife are at risk from certain vector-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue,
and West Nile and yellow fevers. Factors linked to global change, including habitat …

Experimental work increasingly suggests that non‐random pathogen associations can affect
the spread or severity of disease. Yet due to difficulties distinguishing and interpreting co …

The range of hosts a pathogen infects (host specificity) is a key element of disease risk that
may be influenced by both shared phylogenetic history and shared ecological attributes of …

Aim Identifying barriers that govern parasite community assembly and parasite invasion risk
is critical to understand how shifting host ranges impact disease emergence. We studied …

Identifying the mechanisms driving the distribution and diversity of parasitic organisms and
characterizing the structure of parasite assemblages are critical to understanding host …

Background Birds possess the most diverse assemblage of haemosporidian parasites;
including three genera, Plasmodium, Haemoproteus, and Leucocytozoon. Currently there …

Aim Characterizing macroecological patterns in biodiversity is key to improve our
understanding of community assembly. Global biodiversity for many taxa follows a latitudinal …

Parasites are a selective force that shape host community structure and dynamics, but host
communities can also influence parasitism. Understanding the dual nature from host …

One of the major concerns with ongoing environmental global change is the ability of
parasites to shift their distribution (both geographically and across hosts) and to increase in …