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Staffan Bensch

Staffan Bensch

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Ecology and Evolution
Sweden
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

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97
Citations
30723
World Ranking
328
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Staffan Bensch is affiliated with Lund University in Sweden and focuses their research primarily on environmental science and immunology and microbiology. Their work extensively covers parasitology and ecology, with particular attention to avian-related studies and infectious diseases. The scholar addresses specialized subfields including ecology, evolution, behavior, systematics, and genetics.

Bensch's research topics encompass bird parasitology and diseases, avian ecology and behavior, vector-borne infectious diseases, and genetic diversity and population structure. Additional areas of study include the ecology and conservation of wildlife, viral infections and their vectors, and the study of mite species.

Their recent notable publications include:

  • Explaining prevalence, diversity and host specificity in a community of avian haemosporidian parasites, 2020, Oikos
  • Migration direction in a songbird explained by two loci, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Autumn migration direction of juvenile willow warblers (Phylloscopus t. trochilus and P. t. acredula) and their hybrids assessed by qPCR SNP genotyping, 2020, Movement Ecology
  • Prevalence and genetic diversity of avian haemosporidian parasites at an intersection point of bird migration routes: Sultan Marshes National Park, Turkey, 2020, Acta Tropica
  • Plasmodium relictum, 2020, Trends in Parasitology

Bensch frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Molecular Ecology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Movement Ecology
  • Parasites & Vectors

The scientist has collaborated regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • Tamara Emmenegger
  • Petr Procházka
  • Kristaps Sokolovskis
  • Max Lundberg
  • Violeta Caballero-López

Best Publications

  • Links between worlds: unraveling migratory connectivity

    Michael S. Webster;Peter P. Marra;Susan M. Haig;Staffan Bensch

  • A NEW PCR ASSAY FOR SIMULTANEOUS STUDIES OF LEUCOCYTOZOON, PLASMODIUM, AND HAEMOPROTEUS FROM AVIAN BLOOD

    Olof Hellgren;Jonas Waldenström;Staffan Bensch

  • MalAvi: a public database of malaria parasites and related haemosporidians in avian hosts based on mitochondrial cytochrome b lineages

    Staffan Bensch;Olof Hellgren;Javier Pérez-Tris

  • Good genes, oxidative stress and condition-dependent sexual signals

    Torbjörn von Schantz;Staffan Bensch;Mats Grahn;Dennis Hasselquist

  • Correlation between male song repertoire, extra-pair paternity and offspring survival in the great reed warbler

    Dennis Hasselquist;Dennis Hasselquist;Staffan Bensch;Torbjörn von Schantz

  • Host specificity in avian blood parasites: a study of Plasmodium and Haemoproteus mitochondrial DNA amplified from birds

    Staffan Bensch;Martin Stjernman;Dennis Hasselquist;Örjan Östman

  • Ten years of AFLP in ecology and evolution: why so few animals?

    Staffan Bensch;Mikael Akesson

  • Chronic infection. Hidden costs of infection: chronic malaria accelerates telomere degradation and senescence in wild birds.

    M. Asghar;D. Hasselquist;B. Hansson;P. Zehtindjiev

  • Speciation in a ring

    Darren E. Irwin;Darren E. Irwin;Staffan Bensch;Trevor D. Price

  • Cross-species infection of blood parasites between resident and migratory songbirds in Africa

    Jonas Waldenström;Staffan Bensch;Samuel Kiboi;Dennis Hasselquist

  • Severe inbreeding depression in a wild wolf (Canis lupus) population

    Olof Liberg;Henrik Andrén;Hans-Christian Pedersen;Håkan Sand

  • Linkage between nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences in avian malaria parasites: Multiple cases of cryptic speciation?

    Staffan Bensch;Javier Pérez-Tris;Jonas Waldenström;Olof Hellgren

  • The genetics of migration on the move.

    Miriam Liedvogel;Susanne Åkesson;Staffan Bensch

  • Global phylogeographic limits of Hawaii's avian malaria

    Jon S Beadell;Farah Ishtiaq;Rita Covas;Martim Melo

  • Temporal dynamics and diversity of avian malaria parasites in a single host species.

    Staffan Bensch;Jonas Waldenström;Niclas Jonzén;Helena Westerdahl

  • Effects of malaria double infection in birds: one plus one is not two.

    A Marzal;A Marzal;Staffan Bensch;M Reviriego;J Balbontin

  • Plasmodium relictum (lineage P-SGS1): effects on experimentally infected passerine birds.

    Vaidas Palinauskas;Gediminas Valkiūnas;Casimir V. Bolshakov;Staffan Bensch

  • Looking forwards or looking backwards in avian phylogeography? A comment on Zink and Barrowclough 2008

    Scott Edwards;Staffan Bensch

  • Diversity, loss, and gain of malaria parasites in a globally invasive bird

    Alfonso Marzal;Alfonso Marzal;Robert E Ricklefs;Gediminas Valkiūnas;Tamer Albayrak

  • Speciation by Distance in a Ring Species

    Darren E. Irwin;Staffan Bensch;Jessica H. Irwin;Trevor D. Price

Frequent Co-Authors

Dennis Hasselquist
Dennis Hasselquist Lund University
Bengt Hansson
Bengt Hansson Lund University
Gediminas Valkiūnas
Gediminas Valkiūnas Nature Research Centre
Susanne Åkesson
Susanne Åkesson Lund University
Vaidas Palinauskas
Vaidas Palinauskas Nature Research Centre
Javier Pérez-Tris
Javier Pérez-Tris Complutense University of Madrid
Jonas Waldenström
Jonas Waldenström Linnaeus University
Tatjana A. Iezhova
Tatjana A. Iezhova Nature Research Centre
Åke Lindström
Åke Lindström Lund University
Alfonso Marzal
Alfonso Marzal University of Extremadura

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