Host-vector-pathogen dynamics
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My research characterizes the evolutionary host response to malaria parasite infections across a latitudinal gradient in wild birds. Sampling focuses on resident, short, and medium distant migrants in order to capture infections which are a result of climate-change-induced-range shifts of parasites.
Johanna A. Harvey, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher
My research broadly seeks to understand the role of anthropogenic factors, such as global climate change and urbanization, on the ecology and evolution of avian disease and the impacts on wild bird populations.