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Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics

Dr N.C. (Naima) Starkloff

Faculty of Science
Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics
Area of expertise: disease ecology, community ecology
Visiting address
  • Science Park 904
  • Room number: C3.214
Postal address
  • Postbus 94240
    1090 GE Amsterdam
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  • Publications

    2024

    • Starkloff, N. C., Angelo, T., Mahalila, M. P., Charles, J., Kinung'Hi, S., & Civitello, D. J. (2024). Spatio-temporal variability in transmission risk of human schistosomes and animal trematodes in a seasonally desiccating East African landscape. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 291(2014), Article 20231766. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.1766
    • Starkloff, N. C., Mahalila, M. P., Kinung'hi, S., & Civitello, D. J. (2024). Resting in plain sight: Dormancy ecology of the intermediate snail host of Schistosoma haematobium. Ecology, 105(12), e4472. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4472

    2023

    • Starkloff, N. C., & Galen, S. C. (2023). Coinfection rates of avian blood parasites increase with latitude in parapatric host species. Parasitology, 150(4), 329-336. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182022001792

    2022

    • Civitello, D. J., Angelo, T., Nguyen, K. H., Hartman, R. B., Starkloff, N. C., Mahalila, M. P., Charles, J., Manrique, A., Delius, B. K., Bradley, L. M., Nisbet, R. M., Kinung’hi, S., & Rohr, J. R. (2022). Transmission potential of human schistosomes can be driven by resource competition among snail intermediate hosts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(6), Article e2116512119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2116512119
    • Starkloff, N. C., & Civitello, D. J. (2022). Cascading impacts of host seasonal adaptation on parasitism. Trends in Parasitology, 38(11), 942-949. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2022.08.012
    • Starkloff, N. C., Hartman, R. B., & Civitello, D. J. (2022). Snail juvenile growth rate as a rapid predictor of the transmission potential of parasitizing human schistosomes. Experimental Parasitology, 242, Article 108378. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exppara.2022.108378

    2021

    • Ralston, J., FitzGerald, A. M., Burg, T. M., Starkloff, N. C., Warkentin, I. G., & Kirchman, J. J. (2021). Comparative phylogeographic analysis suggests a shared history among eastern North American boreal forest birds. Ornithology, 138(3), Article ukab018. https://doi.org/10.1093/ornithology/ukab018
    • Starkloff, N. C., Turner, W. C., FitzGerald, A. M., Oftedal, M. C., Martinsen, E. S., & Kirchman, J. J. (2021). Disentangling the effects of host relatedness and elevation on haemosporidian parasite turnover in a clade of songbirds. Ecosphere, 12(5), Article e03497. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3497

    2020

    • Starkloff, N. C., Kirchman, J. J., Jones, A. W., Winger, B. M., Huang, Y. H., Pulgarín-R, P. C., & Turner, W. C. (2020). Drivers of community turnover differ between avian hemoparasite genera along a North American latitudinal gradient. Ecology and Evolution, 10(12), 5402-5415. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6283
    • Swart, E. M., Starkloff, N. C., Ypenburg, S., Ellers, J., van Straalen, N. M., & Koene, J. M. (2020). The effect of mating on female reproduction across hermaphroditic freshwater snails. Invertebrate Biology, 139(1), Article e12275. https://doi.org/10.1111/ivb.12275

    2019

    • Pulgarín-R, P. C., Gómez, C., Bayly, N. J., Bensch, S., FitzGerald, A. M., Starkloff, N., Kirchman, J. J., González-Prieto, A. M., Hobson, K. A., Ungvari-Martin, J., Skeen, H., Castaño, M. I., & Cadena, C. D. (2019). Migratory birds as vehicles for parasite dispersal? Infection by avian haemosporidians over the year and throughout the range of a long-distance migrant. Journal of Biogeography, 46(1), 83-96. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13453

    2018

    • FitzGerald, A. M., Starkloff, N. C., & Kirchman, J. J. (2018). Testing the predictive capabilities of ecological niche models: a case study examining Red-bellied Woodpeckers. Ecosphere, 9(12), Article e02496. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2496
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