ArticlePloS one2018
Patterns of avian haemosporidian infections vary with time, but not habitat, in a fragmented Neotropical landscape.
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- Spatial Distribution and Host-Specific Patterns of Avian Haemosporidian Infections in a Semi-Arid Region of Northeastern Iran.Veterinary medicine and science · 2026Article
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- Physiological, environmental, and life-history drivers of haemosporidian infections in non-passerine birds from a rehabilitation center.Frontiers in parasitology · 2025Article
- Cophylogeny, narrow host breadth and local conditions drive highly specialized bird-haemosporidian associations in West-Central African sky islands.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Associations among MHC genes, latitude, and avian malaria infections in the rufous-collared sparrow (Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Comparative performance of microscopy, nested PCR, and real-time PCR for screening avian haemosporidian parasites in Afrotropical starlings (family Sturnidae).Parasitology research · 2023Article
- Habitat-dependentParasitology · 2022Article
- The drivers of avian-haemosporidian prevalence in tropical lowland forests of New Guinea in three dimensions.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Life in the margins: host-parasite relationships in ecological edges.Parasitology research · 2021Review
- Detection of haemosporidian parasites in wild and domestic birds in northern and central provinces of Iran: Introduction of new lineages and hosts.International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2020Article
- DisentanglingInternational journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2019Article
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Abstract
Habitat loss has the potential to alter vertebrate host populations and their interactions with parasites. Theory predicts a decrease in parasite diversity due to the loss of hosts in such contexts. However, habitat loss could also increase parasite infections as a result of the arrival of new parasites or by decreasing host immune defenses. We investigated the effect of habitat loss and other habitat characteristics on avian haemosporidian infections in a community of birds within a fragmented landscape in northwest Ecuador. We estimated Plasmodium and Haemoproteus parasite infections in 504 individual birds belonging to 8 families and 18 species. We found differences in infection status among bird species, but no relationship between forest fragment characteristics and infection status was observed. We also found a temporal effect, with birds at the end of the five-month study (which ran from the end of the rainy season thru the dry season), being less infected by Plasmodium parasites than individuals sampled at the beginning. Moreover, we found a positive relationship between forest area and Culicoides abundance. Taken as a whole, these findings indicate little effect of fragment characteristics per se on infection, although additional sampling or higher infection rates would have offered more power to detect potential relationships.
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