Dr Nicholas Clark

UQ Amplify Lecturer

School of Veterinary Science

+61 7 535 15104

n.clark@uq.edu.au

Researcher biography

An ecologist by training – I hold a B.Sc. (Hons) in Marine Ecology from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington and a Ph.D. in Ecological Modelling from Griffith University. I am broadly interested in exploring new ways to (1) understand how natural communities are formed and (2) predict how they will change over time. As an Amplify Fellow at UQ, my current research focuses on developing computational tools and adapting techniques from epidemiology and statistical forecasting to study how organisms and ecosystems respond to environmental change. This work is being applied to investigate natural dynamics for a range of natural systems including host-parasite interactions, wildlife populations and veterinary diseases.

I am an active member of the R community and have written and/or maintain several popular R packages. For example, I'm a lead developer on the MRFcov package for multivariate conditional random fields analyses. I also wrote the mvgam R package for fitting dynamic Generalised Additive Models to analyse and forecast multivariate ecological time series, and I regularly provide training seminars and workshops to help researchers learn techniques in ecological data analysis.

I am currently seeking Honours and PhD candidates with interests and/or skills in veterinary epidemiology, spatial / spatiotemporal modeling and quantitative ecology.

Publications

Journal Articles (70)

Conference Papers (2)

Journal Articles

Proboste, Tatiana, Lau, Colleen L., Clark, Nicholas, Jagals, Paul, Sly, Peter D., Lambert, Stephen B., Devine, Gregor, Zuccon, Guido and Soares Magalhães, Ricardo J. (2025). The epidemiology of hospitalisations from four key environmentally sensitive zoonotic diseases in Queensland, 2012–2019. Tropical Medicine and International Health. doi: 10.1111/tmi.14139

Lee, Meshach, O'Rorke, Richard, Clark, Nicholas J., Webster, Tamsyn Uren and Wells, Konstans (2025). Diversity and Plasticity in Mosquito Feeding Patterns: A Meta‐Analysis of ‘Universal’ DNA Diet Studies. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 34 (6) e70077. doi: 10.1111/geb.70077

Rame Hau, Erda E., Sharma, Minu, Khanal, Bal K. Sharma, Sly, Peter D., Mikkelsen, Deirdre, Clark, Nicholas and Soares Magalhães, Ricardo J. (2025). Correction: Rame Hau et al. The Prevalence and Risk Factors Associated with the Presence of Antibiotic Residues in Milk from Peri-Urban Dairy Cattle Farms in Kathmandu, Nepal. Antibiotics 2025, 14, 98. Antibiotics, 14 (5) 473, 473. doi: 10.3390/antibiotics14050473

Mshelbwala, Philip P., Wangdi, Kinley, Idris, Jibrin, Hassan, Mohammad Mahmudul, Adamu, Andrew M., Rupprecht, Charles E. and Clark, Nicholas J. (2025). Traditional practices versus modern healthcare: Determinants of traditional medicine use after potential dog bites among dog-owning households in Nigeria. Plos Neglected Tropical Diseases, 19 (3) e0012910, e0012910. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0012910

Clark, Nicholas J., Ernest, S. K. Morgan, Senyondo, Henry, Simonis, Juniper, White, Ethan P., Yenni, Glenda M. and Karunarathna, K. A. N. K. (2025). Beyond single-species models: leveraging multispecies forecasts to navigate the dynamics of ecological predictability. PeerJ, 13 (2) e18929, e18929-13. doi: 10.7717/peerj.18929

Rame Hau, Erda E. Rame, Sharma, Minu, Khanal, Bal K. Sharma, Sly, Peter D., Mikkelsen, Deirdre, Clark, Nicholas and Soares Magalhães, Ricardo J. Soares (2025). The Prevalence and Risk Factors Associated with the Presence of Antibiotic Residues in Milk from Peri-Urban Dairy Cattle Farms in Kathmandu, Nepal. Antibiotics, 14 (1) 98, 98. doi: 10.3390/antibiotics14010098

Wells, Konstans, Bell, Jeffrey A., Fecchio, Alan, Drovetski, Serguei, Galen, Spencer, Hackett, Shannon, Lutz, Holly, Skeen, Heather R., Voelker, Gary, Wamiti, Wanyoike, Weckstein, Jason D. and Clark, Nicholas J. (2025). Parasite abundance‐occupancy relationships across biogeographic regions: joint effects of niche breadth, host availability and climate. Journal of Biogeography, 52 (1), 55-65. doi: 10.1111/jbi.15015

Kennedy, Uttara, Stevenson, Mark, Paterson, Mandy, Jaensch, Susan, Hayward, Doug and Clark, Nicholas (2024). Prevalence of feline upper respiratory tract pathogens and risk factors for clinical disease and final outcomes in an RSPCA shelter in Queensland, Australia. Veterinary Record Open, 11 (2) e70001, e270001. doi: 10.1002/vro2.70001

Proboste, Tatiana, Bista, Damber, Clark, Nicholas J., Arora, Sahil, Devine, Gregor, Darbro, Jonathan M., Malloy, Deena S., Francis, Daniel and Soares Magalhães, Ricardo J. (2024). Ascertainment of community exposure sites to Ross River virus during the 2020 outbreak in Brisbane, Australia. The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 231 (3), e501-e510. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiae578

Powell‐Romero, Francisca, Wells, Konstans and Clark, Nicholas J. (2024). Asymmetric biotic interactions cannot be inferred without accounting for priority effects. Ecology Letters, 27 (9) e14509, e14509. doi: 10.1111/ele.14509

Powell-Romero, Francisca, Wells, Konstans and Clark, Nicholas J. (2024). A systematic review and guide for using multi-response statistical models in co-infection research. Royal Society Open Science, 11 (10) 231589, 1-18. doi: 10.1098/rsos.231589

Proboste, Tatiana, Dennis, Elisa, Soares Magalhães, Ricardo J., Abdullah, Swaid and Clark, Nicholas J. (2024). Assessing perceptions of flea and tick infestation risk in Southeast Queensland, Australia. Veterinary Parasitology: Regional Studies and Reports, 54 101087, 1-7. doi: 10.1016/j.vprsr.2024.101087

Mshelbwala, Philip P., Wangdi, Kinley, Bunting-Graden, Joseph A., Bamayange, Saidu, Adamu, Andrew M., Gupta, Suman D., Suluku, Rowland, Adamu, Cornelius S., Weese, J. Scott, Rupprecht, Charles E. and Clark, Nicholas J. (2024). Insights into canine rabies vaccination disparities in Sierra Leone: a cross-sectional household study. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 18 (7) e0012332, 1-18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0012332

Kennedy, Uttara, Paterson, Mandy Bryce Allan, Soares Magalhaes, Ricardo, Callaghan, Thomas and Clark, Nicholas (2024). A scoping review of the evidence on prevalence of feline upper respiratory tract infections and associated risk factors. Veterinary Sciences, 11 (6) 232. doi: 10.3390/vetsci11060232

Mshelbwala, Philip P., Rupprecht, Charles E., Osinubi, Modupe O., Njoga, Emmanuel O., Orum, Terese G., Weese, J. Scott and Clark, Nicholas J. (2024). Factors influencing canine rabies vaccination among dog-owning households in Nigeria. One Health, 18 100751, 100751. doi: 10.1016/j.onehlt.2024.100751

Karunarathna, K.A.N.K., Wells, Konstans and Clark, Nicholas J. (2024). Modelling nonlinear responses of a desert rodent species to environmental change with hierarchical dynamic generalized additive models. Ecological Modelling, 490 110648, 110648. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2024.110648

Kennedy, U., Paterson, M. and Clark, N. (2023). Epidemiological insights into the burden of feline upper respiratory tract infections in Queensland RSPCA shelters. Australian Veterinary Journal, 102 (3), 87-95. doi: 10.1111/avj.13306

Owada, Kei, Abdullah, Swaid, Clark, Nicholas, Nguyen, Tu and Soares Magalhães, Ricardo J. (2023). Associations between canine hookworm infection and dog owners' awareness, perception, and behaviour: a cross‐sectional study in Brisbane, Queensland, 2019–2020. Zoonoses and Public Health, 70 (6), 498-510. doi: 10.1111/zph.13059

McGowan, Alexandra M., Seddon, Jennifer M., Lanyon, Janet M., Clark, Nicholas and Gibson, Justine S. (2023). Identification of antimicrobial resistance in faecal microbes from wild dugongs (Dugong dugon). Aquatic Mammals, 49 (4), 395-405. doi: 10.1578/am.49.4.2023.395

McGowan, Alexandra M., Lanyon, Janet M., Clark, Nicholas, Blair, David, Marsh, Helene, Wolanski, Eric and Seddon, Jennifer M. (2023). Cryptic marine barriers to gene flow in a vulnerable coastal species, the dugong (Dugong dugon). Marine Mammal Science, 39 (3), 918-939. doi: 10.1111/mms.13021

Norberg, Anna, Susi, Hanna, Sallinen, Suvi, Baran, Pezhman, Clark, Nicholas J. and Laine, Anna-Liisa (2023). Direct and indirect viral associations predict coexistence in wild plant virus communities. Current Biology, 33 (9), 1665-1676.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.03.022

Kennedy, Uttara, Paterson, Mandy and Clark, Nicholas (2023). Using a gradient boosted model for case ascertainment from free-text veterinary records. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 212 105850, 1-8. doi: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2023.105850

Mshelbwala, Philip P., J. Soares Magalhães, Ricardo, Weese, J. Scott, Ahmed, Nasir O., Rupprecht, Charles E. and Clark, Nicholas J. (2023). Modelling modifiable factors associated with the probability of human rabies deaths among self-reported victims of dog bites in Abuja, Nigeria. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 17 (2) e0011147, 1-20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0011147

Barshes, Neal R., Clark, Nicholas J., Bidare, Deeksha, Dudenhoeffer, J. H., Mindru, Cezarina and Rodriguez-Barradas, Maria C. (2022). Polymicrobial foot infection patterns are common and associated with treatment failure. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 9 (10) ofac475, 1-6. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofac475

Clark, Nicholas J. and Wells, Konstans (2022). Dynamic generalised additive models ( DGAMs ) for forecasting discrete ecological time series. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14 (3), 771-784. doi: 10.1111/2041-210x.13974

Proboste, Tatiana, Clark, Nicholas J., Tozer, Sarah, Wood, Caitlin, Lambert, Stephen B. and Soares Magalhães, Ricardo J. (2022). Profiling risk factors for household and community spatiotemporal clusters of Q fever notifications in Queensland between 2002 and 2017. Pathogens, 11 (8) 830, 1-12. doi: 10.3390/pathogens11080830

Powell‐Romero, Francisca, Fountain‐Jones, Nicholas M., Norberg, Anna and Clark, Nicholas J. (2022). Improving the predictability and interpretability of co‐occurrence modelling through feature‐based joint species distribution ensembles. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14 (1), 1-16. doi: 10.1111/2041-210x.13915

Mshelbwala, Philip P., Weese, J. Scott, Clark, Nicholas J., Tekki, Ishaya, Chakma, Shovon, Shamaki, David, Mamun, Abdullah A., Rupprecht, Charles E. and Soares Magalhães, Ricardo J. (2022). Spatiotemporal heterogeneity and determinants of canine rabies evidence at Local Government Area Level in Nigeria: implications for rabies prevention and control. One Health, 14 100378, 1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.onehlt.2022.100378

Hill, A.G., Boyd, S.P., Clark, N.J. and Proboste, T. (2022). Haemoprotozoa in wild short‐beaked echidnas (Tachyglossus aculeatus). Australian Veterinary Journal, 100 (3), 130-134. doi: 10.1111/avj.13132

Clark, Nicholas J., Proboste, Tatiana, Weerasinghe, Guyan and Soares Magalhães, Ricardo J. (2022). Near-term forecasting of companion animal tick paralysis incidence: an iterative ensemble model. PLoS Computational Biology, 18 (2) e1009874, e1009874. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009874

Fecchio, Alan, Clark, Nicholas J., Bell, Jeffrey A., Skeen, Heather R., Lutz, Holly L., De La Torre, Gabriel M., Vaughan, Jefferson A., Tkach, Vasyl V., Schunck, Fabio, Ferreira, Francisco C., Braga, Érika M., Lugarini, Camile, Wamiti, Wanyoike, Dispoto, Janice H., Galen, Spencer C., Kirchgatter, Karin, Sagario, M. Cecilia, Cueto, Victor R., González‐Acuña, Daniel, Inumaru, Mizue, Sato, Yukita, Schumm, Yvonne R., Quillfeldt, Petra, Pellegrino, Irene, Dharmarajan, Guha, Gupta, Pooja, Robin, V. V., Ciloglu, Arif, Yildirim, Alparslan ... Kamath, Pauline (2021). Global drivers of avian haemosporidian infections vary across zoogeographical regions. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 30 (12) geb.13390, 2393-2406. doi: 10.1111/geb.13390

Fountain‐Jones, Nicholas M., Kozakiewicz, Christopher P., Forester, Brenna R., Landguth, Erin L., Carver, Scott, Charleston, Michael, Gagne, Roderick B., Greenwell, Brandon, Kraberger, Simona, Trumbo, Daryl R., Mayer, Michael, Clark, Nicholas J. and Machado, Gustavo (2021). MrIML: Multi‐response interpretable machine learning to model genomic landscapes. Molecular Ecology Resources, 21 (8) 1755-0998.13495, 2766-2781. doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.13495

Hill, A. G., Clark, N. J. and Tokonami, F. (2021). Tick paralysis in Australian birds caused by Ixodes holocyclus. Australian Veterinary Journal, 99 (12) avj.13119, 1-7. doi: 10.1111/avj.13119

Nguyen, Tu, Clark, Nicholas, Jones, Malcolm K., Herndon, Aaron, Mallyon, John, Soares Magalhaes, Ricardo J. and Abdullah, Swaid (2021). Perceptions of dog owners towards canine gastrointestinal parasitism and associated human health risk in Southeast Queensland. One Health, 12 100226, 100226. doi: 10.1016/j.onehlt.2021.100226

Abeykoon, A. M. Hasanthi, Clark, Nicholas Joshua, Soares Magalhaes, Ricardo Jorge, Vincent, Gemma Anne, Stevenson, Mark Anthony, Firestone, Simon Matthew and Wiethoelter, Anke Katrin (2021). Coxiella burnetii in the environment: a systematic review and critical appraisal of sampling methods. Zoonoses and Public Health, 68 (3), 165-181. doi: 10.1111/zph.12791

Clark, Nicholas J., Drovetski, Sergei V. and Voelker, Gary (2020). Robust geographical determinants of infection prevalence and a contrasting latitudinal diversity gradient for haemosporidian parasites in Western Palearctic birds. Molecular Ecology, 29 (16) mec.15545, 3131-3143. doi: 10.1111/mec.15545

Mone, N.K., Clark, N.J., Kyaw‐Tanner, M., Turni, C., Barnes, T.S., Parke, C.R., Alawneh, JA, Blackall, P.J. and Meers, J. (2020). Genetic analysis of porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) in Queensland, Australia. Australian Veterinary Journal, 98 (8) avj.12952, 388-395. doi: 10.1111/avj.12952

Clark, Nicholas J., Tozer, Sarah, Wood, Caitlin, Firestone, Simon M., Stevenson, Mark, Caraguel, Charles, Chaber, Anne‐Lise, Heller, Jane and Soares Magalhães, Ricardo J. (2020). Unravelling animal exposure profiles of human Q fever cases in Queensland, Australia, using natural language processing. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 67 (5) tbed.13565, 2133-2145. doi: 10.1111/tbed.13565

Clark, Nicholas J., Owada, Kei, Ruberanziza, Eugene, Ortu, Giuseppina, Umulisa, Irenee, Bayisenge, Ursin, Mbonigaba, Jean Bosco, Mucaca, Jean Bosco, Lancaster, Warren, Fenwick, Alan, Soares Magalhães, Ricardo J. and Mbituyumuremyi, Aimable (2020). Parasite associations predict infection risk: incorporating co-infections in predictive models for neglected tropical diseases. Parasites and Vectors, 13 (1) 138, 138. doi: 10.1186/s13071-020-04016-2

Clark, Nicholas J., Kerry, James T. and Fraser, Ceridwen I. (2020). Rapid winter warming could disrupt coastal marine fish community structure. Nature Climate Change, 10 (9), 862-867. doi: 10.1038/s41558-020-0838-5

Clark, Nicholas J., Umulisa, Irenee, Ruberanziza, Eugene, Owada, Kei, Colley, Daniel G., Ortu, Giuseppina, Campbell, Carl H., Ruzindana, Emmanuel, Lancaster, Warren, Mbonigaba, Jean Bosco, Mbituyumuremyi, Aimable, Fenwick, Alan, Soares Magalhaes, Ricardo J. and Turate, Innocent (2019). Mapping Schistosoma mansoni endemicity in Rwanda: a critical assessment of geographical disparities arising from circulating cathodic antigen versus Kato-Katz diagnostics. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 13 (9) e0007723, e0007723. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0007723

Fecchio, Alan, Bell, Jeffrey A., Bosholn, Mariane, Vaughan, Jefferson A., Tkach, Vasyl V., Lutz, Holly L., Cueto, Victor R., Gorosito, Cristian A., González‐Acuña, Daniel, Stromlund, Chad, Kvasager, Danielle, Comiche, Kiba J. M., Kirchgatter, Karin, Pinho, João B., Berv, Jacob, Anciães, Marina, Fontana, Carla S., Zyskowski, Kristof, Sampaio, Sidnei, Dispoto, Janice H., Galen, Spencer C., Weckstein, Jason D. and Clark, Nicholas J. (2019). An inverse latitudinal gradient in infection probability and phylogenetic diversity for Leucocytozoon blood parasites in New World birds. Journal of Animal Ecology, 89 (2) 1365-2656.13117, 423-435. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13117

Peel, Alison J., Wells, Konstans, Giles, John, Boyd, Victoria, Burroughs, Amy, Edson, Daniel, Crameri, Gary, Baker, Michelle L., Field, Hume, Wang, Lin-Fa, McCallum, Hamish, Plowright, Raina K. and Clark, Nicholas (2019). Synchronous shedding of multiple bat paramyxoviruses coincides with peak periods of Hendra virus spillover. Emerging Microbes and Infections, 8 (1), 1314-1323. doi: 10.1080/22221751.2019.1661217

Proboste, Tatiana, Corvalan, Paloma, Clark, Nicholas, Beyer, Hawthorne L., Goldizen, Anne W. and Seddon, Jennifer M. (2019). Commensal bacterial sharing does not predict host social associations in kangaroos. Journal of Animal Ecology, 88 (11) 1365-2656.13064, 1696-1707. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13064

Ruberanziza, Eugene, Owada, Kei, Clark, Nicholas J., Umulisa, Irenee, Ortu, Giuseppina, Lancaster, Warren, Munyaneza, Tharcisse, Mbituyumuremyi, Aimable, Bayisenge, Ursin, Fenwick, Alan and Soares Magalhães, Ricardo J. (2019). Mapping soil-transmitted helminth parasite infection in Rwanda: estimating endemicity and identifying at-risk populations. Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 4 (2) 93, 93. doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed4020093

Wells, Konstans and Clark, Nicholas J. (2019). Host specificity in variable environments. Trends in Parasitology, 35 (6), 452-465. doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2019.04.001

Lawrence, Andrea L., Webb, Cameron E., Clark, Nicholas J., Halajian, Ali, Mihalca, Andrei D., Miret, Jorge, D'Amico, Gianluca, Brown, Graeme, Kumsa, Bersissa, Modrý, David and Šlapeta, Jan (2019). Out-of-Africa, human-mediated dispersal of the common cat flea, Ctenocephalides felis: the hitchhiker’s guide to world domination. International Journal for Parasitology, 49 (5), 321-336. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2019.01.001

Fecchio, Alan, Wells, Konstans, Bell, Jeffrey A., Tkach, Vasyl V., Lutz, Holly L., Weckstein, Jason D., Clegg, Sonya M. and Clark, Nicholas J. (2019). Climate variation influences host specificity in avian malaria parasites. Ecology Letters, 22 (3), 547-557. doi: 10.1111/ele.13215

Fountain-Jones, Nicholas M., Clark, Nicholas J., Kinsley, Amy C., Carstensen, Michelle, Forester, James, Johnson, Timothy J., Miller, Elizabeth A., Moore, Seth, Wolf, Tiffany M. and Craft, Meggan E. (2019). Microbial associations and spatial proximity predict North American moose (Alces alces) gastrointestinal community composition. Journal of Animal Ecology, 89 (3) 1365-2656.13154, 1-12. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13154

Wells, Konstans, Gibson, David I. and Clark, Nicholas J. (2018). Global patterns in helminth host specificity: phylogenetic and functional diversity of regional host species pools matter. Ecography, 42 (3), 416-427. doi: 10.1111/ecog.03886

Wells, Konstans, Gibson, David I., Clark, Nicholas J., Ribas, Alexis, Morand, Serge and McCallum, Hamish I. (2018). Global spread of helminth parasites at the human-domestic animal-wildlife interface. Global Change Biology, 24 (7), 3254-3265. doi: 10.1111/gcb.14064

Clark, Nicholas J., Wells, Konstans and Lindberg, Oscar (2018). Unravelling changing interspecific interactions across environmental gradients using Markov random fields. Ecology, 99 (6), 1277-1283. doi: 10.1002/ecy.2221

Clark, Nicholas J. (2018). Phylogenetic uniqueness, not latitude, explains the diversity of avian blood parasite communities worldwide. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 27 (6), 744-755. doi: 10.1111/geb.12741

Clark, Nicholas J. and Soares Magalhães, Ricardo J. (2018). Airborne geographical dispersal of Q fever from livestock holdings to human communities: a systematic review and critical appraisal of evidence. BMC Infectious Diseases, 18 (1) 218, 218. doi: 10.1186/s12879-018-3135-4

Clark, Nicholas J., Seddon, Jennifer M., Šlapeta, Jan and Wells, Konstans (2018). Parasite spread at the domestic animal - wildlife interface: anthropogenic habitat use, phylogeny and body mass drive risk of cat and dog flea (Ctenocephalides spp.) infestation in wild mammals. Parasites & Vectors, 11 (1) 8, 1-11. doi: 10.1186/s13071-017-2564-z

Clark, Nicholas J, Seddon, Jennifer M, Kyaw-Tanner, Myat, Al-Alawneh, John, Harper, Gavin, McDonagh, Phillip and Meers, Joanne (2017). Emergence of canine parvovirus subtype 2b (CPV-2b) infections in Australian dogs. Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases, 58, 50-55. doi: 10.1016/j.meegid.2017.12.013

Clark, Nicholas J., Clegg, Sonya M., Sam, Katerina, Goulding, William, Koane, Bonny and Wells, Konstans (2017). Climate, host phylogeny and the connectivity of host communities govern regional parasite assembly. Diversity and Distributions, 24 (1), 13-23. doi: 10.1111/ddi.12661

Clark, Nicholas J. and Clegg, Sonya M. (2017). Integrating phylogenetic and ecological distances reveals new insights into parasite host specificity. Molecular Ecology, 26 (11), 3074-3086. doi: 10.1111/mec.14101

McKee, J., Clark, N., Shapter, F. and Simmons, G. (2017). A new look at the origins of gibbon ape leukemia virus. Virus Genes, 53 (2), 165-172. doi: 10.1007/s11262-017-1436-0

Clark, Nicholas J., Wells, Konstans, Dimitrov, Dimitar and Clegg, Sonya M. (2016). Co-infections and environmental conditions drive the distributions of blood parasites in wild birds. Journal of Animal Ecology, 85 (6), 1461-1470. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.12578

Aharon-Rotman, Yaara, Buchanan, Katherine L., Clark, Nicholas J., Klaassen, Marcel and Buttemer, William A. (2016). Why fly the extra mile? Using stress biomarkers to assess wintering habitat quality in migratory shorebirds. Oecologia, 182 (2), 385-395. doi: 10.1007/s00442-016-3679-1

Clark, Nicholas J., Clegg, Sonya M. and Klaassen, Marcel (2016). Migration strategy and pathogen risk: non-breeding distribution drives malaria prevalence in migratory waders. Oikos, 125 (9), 1358-1368. doi: 10.1111/oik.03220

Goulding, W., Adlard, R. D., Clegg, S. M. and Clark, N. J. (2016). Molecular and morphological description of Haemoproteus (Parahaemoproteus) bukaka (species nova), a haemosporidian associated with the strictly Australo-Papuan host subfamily Cracticinae. Parasitology Research, 115 (9), 3387-3400. doi: 10.1007/s00436-016-5099-x

Clark, Nicholas J., Olsson-Pons, Sophie, Ishtiaq, Farah and Clegg, Sonya M. (2015). Specialist enemies, generalist weapons and the potential spread of exotic pathogens: malaria parasites in a highly invasive bird. International Journal for Parasitology, 45 (14), 891-899. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2015.08.008

Olsson-Pons, Sophie, Clark, Nicholas J., Ishtiaq, Farah and Clegg, Sonya M. (2015). Differences in host species relationships and biogeographic influences produce contrasting patterns of prevalence, community composition and genetic structure in two genera of avian malaria parasites in southern Melanesia. Journal of Animal Ecology, 84 (4), 985-998. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.12354

Clark, Nicholas J., Adlard, Robert D. and Clegg, Sonya M. (2015). Molecular and morphological characterization of Haemoproteus (Parahaemoproteus) ptilotis, a parasite infecting Australian honeyeaters (Meliphagidae), with remarks on prevalence and potential cryptic speciation. Parasitology Research, 114 (5), 1921-1928. doi: 10.1007/s00436-015-4380-8

Clark, Nicholas J. and Clegg, Sonya M. (2015). The influence of vagrant hosts and weather patterns on the colonization and persistence of blood parasites in an island bird. Journal of Biogeography, 42 (4), 641-651. doi: 10.1111/jbi.12454

Clark, Nicholas J., Adlard, Robert D. and Clegg, Sonya M. (2014). First evidence of avian malaria in capricorn silvereyes (zosterops lateralis chlorocephalus) on heron island. Sunbird, 44 (1), 1-11.

Clark, Nicholas J., Clegg, Sonya M. and Lima, Marcos R. (2014). A review of global diversity in avian haemosporidians (Plasmodium and Haemoproteus: Haemosporida): new insights from molecular data. International Journal for Parasitology, 44 (5), 329-338. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2014.01.004

Clark, Nicholas J. and Russ, Garry R. (2012). Ontogenetic shifts in the habitat associations of butterflyfishes (F. Chaetodontidae). Environmental Biology of Fishes, 94 (4), 579-590. doi: 10.1007/s10641-011-9964-2

Conference Papers

Chakma, Shovon, Mshelbwala, Philip P., Samad, Mohammed Abdus, Karim, Md Rezaul, Giasuddin, Mohammad, Akwar, Holy, Hasan, Zakiul, Nasrin, Tanzinah, Brum, Eric, Osmani, Muzaffar G., Islam, S.K. Shaheenur, Ibrahim, Nelima, McKenzie, Joanna, Clark, Nicholas J., Islam, Zahir, Sly, Peter and Soares Magalhães, Ricardo J. (2021). Role of live poultry movement on environmental contamination patterns of avian influenza A viruses circulating in live bird markets, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 7th One Health Aotearoa Symposium, Wellington, New Zealand, 7-8 December 2021.

Mshelbwala, Philip P., Weese, J. Scott, Tekki, Ishaya, Chakma, Shovon, Shamaki, David, Mamun, Abdullah A., Clark, Nicholas J., Rupprecht, Charles E. and Soares Magalhães, Ricardo J. (2021). Spatial patterns of canine rabies evidence at the local government area level in Nigeria: association with socioeconomic and ecological determinants. 7th One Heath Aotearoa Symposium, Wellington, New Zealand, 6-7 December 2021.