Vector and host communities, as well as habitat characteristics, may have important but
different impacts on the prevalence, richness and evenness of vector‐borne parasites. We …

Human landscape transformation, especially urbanization, strongly affects ecosystems
worldwide. Both urban stressors and parasites have negative effects on organism health …

Diseases can play a role in species decline. Among them, haemosporidian parasites, vector-
transmitted protozoan parasites, are known to constitute a risk for different avian species …

Abstract Background The order Accipitriformes comprises the largest group of birds of prey
with 260 species in four families. So far, 21 haemosporidian parasite species have been …

Avian haemosporidians (Haemosporida) represent a globally distributed, species-rich
multiparasite-multihost host-parasite system. Each year, many of these parasite lineages are …

Broadening the field of classical parasitology research by integrating it with ecoimmunology
has allowed us a better understanding of the effect of haemosporidians and to identify the …

Urbanization is an important human-driven process that leads to biodiversity loss and alters
the interactions between organisms, including disease transmission. Although urbanization …

Haemosporidia (Apicomplexa, Haemosporida) are protozoa that infect vertebrate blood cells
and are transmitted by vectors. Among vertebrates, birds possess the greatest diversity of …

Human‐induced climate change is expected to cause major biotic changes in species
distributions and thereby including escalation of novel host‐parasite associations. Closely …

Purpose Avian haemosporidians are widespread parasites, occurring in many bird families
and causing pathologies ranging from rather benign infections to highly virulent diseases …