Shenglai Yin, PhD
Disease ecologist
Affiliation: University of Oklahoma, and Eastern Ecological Research Center, USGS (formerly USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center)
Work Email: shenglai.yin@ou.edu
Professional Biography
Shenglai is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Oklahoma and Eastern Ecological Research Center, USGS. His research interests have two major branches in the arena of disease ecology. The first branch is to answer the questions about the disease dynamics in the migratory host population by integrating remote sensing data, animal tracking data, and mathematical models. The second branch is to explore the associations between animal community composition and disease risk. He holds a Ph.D. in Ecology from the Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands, where he finished the dissertation for this doctoral degree “Consequences of Seasonal Migration: How goose relocation strategies influence infection prevalence and pathogen dispersal.” His other research interests included wetland ecology and wetland restoration.
Selected Research Articles
(see Google Scholar page for full publication list)
S. Yin et al., Strong and consistent associations of waterbird community composition with HPAI H5 occurrence in European wild birds, Ecological Applications, in revision.
D. Prosser, C. Teitelbaum, S. Yin, et al. 2023, Climate change impacts on bird migration and highly pathogenic avian influenza, Nature Microbiology.
S. Yin et al. 2023, Functional traits explain waterbirds' host status, subtype richness, and community‐level infection risk for avian influenza, Ecology Letter.
S. Yin et al. 2022, Habitat loss exacerbates pathogen spread: An Agent-based model of avian influenza infection in migratory waterfowl, PLoS Computational Biology.
S. Zhang, N. Li, M. Xu, Z. Huang, Z. Gu, S. Yin* (corresponding author) 2022, Urbanization and habitat characteristics associated with the occurrence of Peste des Petits ruminants in Africa, Sustainability.
S. Yin et al. 2020, Effects of migration network configuration and migration synchrony on infection prevalence in geese, Journal of Theoretical Biology.
Y. Xu, Y. Si, S. Yin et al. 2020, Species-dependent effects of habitat degradation in relation to seasonal distribution of migratory waterfowl in the East Asian–Australasian Flyway, Landscape Ecology.