Andrew Park
@andrew-w-park.bsky.social
I teach and research the ecology and evolution of host-parasite interactions
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🦜🦠Happy to share our new paper in
Integrative Zoology!
We explore how bird migration, community composition, and environmental factors jointly shape the global distribution of avian haemosporidian lineages.
Open Access 👉 doi.org/10.1111/1749...
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Integrative Zoology!
We explore how bird migration, community composition, and environmental factors jointly shape the global distribution of avian haemosporidian lineages.
Open Access 👉 doi.org/10.1111/1749...
[1/3] @andrew-w-park.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 10:06 PM
🦜🦠Happy to share our new paper in
Integrative Zoology!
We explore how bird migration, community composition, and environmental factors jointly shape the global distribution of avian haemosporidian lineages.
Open Access 👉 doi.org/10.1111/1749...
[1/3] @andrew-w-park.bsky.social
Integrative Zoology!
We explore how bird migration, community composition, and environmental factors jointly shape the global distribution of avian haemosporidian lineages.
Open Access 👉 doi.org/10.1111/1749...
[1/3] @andrew-w-park.bsky.social
Reposted by Andrew Park
We will be recruiting graduate researchers to start Fall 2026 in the Dallas lab at U South Carolina. We are a mix of population, community, and disease ecologists. Parasite macroecology!!!
Feel free to reach out to chat and see our webpage for more info on our science (taddallas.github.io).
Feel free to reach out to chat and see our webpage for more info on our science (taddallas.github.io).
August 29, 2025 at 5:44 PM
We will be recruiting graduate researchers to start Fall 2026 in the Dallas lab at U South Carolina. We are a mix of population, community, and disease ecologists. Parasite macroecology!!!
Feel free to reach out to chat and see our webpage for more info on our science (taddallas.github.io).
Feel free to reach out to chat and see our webpage for more info on our science (taddallas.github.io).
Reposted by Andrew Park
Hope you can join us for three full days (June 2-4th, 2026) of great science in a beautiful setting!
October 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Hope you can join us for three full days (June 2-4th, 2026) of great science in a beautiful setting!
We recently studied how avian malaria parasites are distributed globally, with bird migration, host community similarity, & environmental affinity all playing a role. Important because some lineages are more harmful than others and distributions susceptible to global change
doi.org/10.1111/1749...
doi.org/10.1111/1749...
Bird Community Composition, Migration, and Environmental Factors Jointly Influence the Global Distribution of Avian Haemosporidian Lineages
Avian haemosporidians are widely distributed; however, the role of migratory and non-migratory birds, as well as environmental conditions, is incompletely understood. A histogram of the number of par...
doi.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:09 PM
We recently studied how avian malaria parasites are distributed globally, with bird migration, host community similarity, & environmental affinity all playing a role. Important because some lineages are more harmful than others and distributions susceptible to global change
doi.org/10.1111/1749...
doi.org/10.1111/1749...
The Park lab is recruiting a disease ecology modeling student to the PhD Ecology program at UGA for Fall 2026 to join an NIH funded, multi-institution project studying bat-virus dynamics in Kenya and Belize (reporter.nih.gov/project-deta...).
October 31, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The Park lab is recruiting a disease ecology modeling student to the PhD Ecology program at UGA for Fall 2026 to join an NIH funded, multi-institution project studying bat-virus dynamics in Kenya and Belize (reporter.nih.gov/project-deta...).
Really enjoyed linking parasite phylogenetic specialism to metrics of adaptation. Principal hosts of specialists have higher population density, prevalence & intensity. Auxiliary quality hosts of specialists are relatives, whereas for generalists they overlap in space & diet doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
Costs of parasite generalism revealed by abundance patterns across mammalian hosts | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Most parasites are able to infect several host species, yet generalism is anticipated
to be a costly strategy. Parasite abundance provides an important indicator of fitness
because it is promoted by l...
doi.org
October 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Really enjoyed linking parasite phylogenetic specialism to metrics of adaptation. Principal hosts of specialists have higher population density, prevalence & intensity. Auxiliary quality hosts of specialists are relatives, whereas for generalists they overlap in space & diet doi.org/10.1098/rspb...