Christopher McFarland

Queen's University Belfast — United Kingdom

Veterinary · Health Sciences

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Research Topics

Helminth infection and control(18), Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems(12), Parasite Biology and Host Interactions(9), Nematode management and characterization studies(7), Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems(6)

Publications41 total

Refining premating parasite control for ewes: identifying those most likely to benefit from anthelmintic treatment
Veterinary Record·2026
Health and performance of fattening pigs reared in grassland and agroforestry systems in a temperate maritime climate
animal·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Outdoor pig rearing on the Island of Ireland – Does agroforestry improve pig health?
Animal - science proceedings·2025
Multi‐Environment Quantification of Parasite and Intermediate Host <scp>DNA</scp> on Pasture for Fine‐Scale Disease Risk Assessment
Environmental DNA·2024Open Access
Corrigendum to “An improved model for the population dynamics of cattle gastrointestinal nematodes on pasture: Parameterisation and field validation for Ostertagia ostertagi and Cooperia oncophora in Northern Temperate zones” [Vet. Parasitol. 310 (2022) 109777]
Veterinary Parasitology·2024Open Access
39. Predicting, validating and applying mixed parasite infection models for sheep under current and future climate scenarios
Animal - science proceedings·2024
45. Helping farmers navigate changing parasite seasonality in ruminants under climate warming
Animal - science proceedings·2024
Assessing the microbiota of the snail intermediate host of trematodes, Galba truncatula
Parasites & Vectors·2024· 11 citedOpen Access
Host movement dominates the predicted effects of climate change on parasite transmission between wild and domestic mountain ungulates
Royal Society Open Science·2024· 10 citedOpen Access
Author response for "Host movement dominates the predicted effects of climate change on parasite transmission between wild and domestic mountain ungulates"
2023
Author response for "Host movement dominates the predicted effects of climate change on parasite transmission between wild and domestic mountain ungulates"
2023
An alien parasite in a changing world – Ashworthius sidemi has lost its traditional seasonal dynamics
Frontiers in Veterinary Science·2023· 3 citedOpen Access
Author response for "Host movement dominates the predicted effects of climate change on parasite transmission between wild and domestic mountain ungulates"
2023
Integrating multi-species swards into parasite management in sheep under climate change
Animal - science proceedings·2023
Novel epidemiological model of gastrointestinal nematode infection to assess grazing cattle resilience by integrating host growth, parasite, grass and environmental dynamics
International Journal for Parasitology·2023· 17 citedOpen Access
Assessment of Metrics That Measure the Effectiveness of Control Allocation and Their Use in Linear Closed-Loop Analysis
AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum·2023· 2 cited
Tracking gastrointestinal nematode risk on cattle farms through pasture contamination mapping
International Journal for Parasitology·2022· 29 citedOpen Access
An improved model for the population dynamics of cattle gastrointestinal nematodes on pasture: parameterisation and field validation for Ostertagia ostertagi and Cooperia oncophora in northern temperate zones
Veterinary Parasitology·2022· 13 cited
Novel epidemiological model of gastrointestinal-nematode infection to assess grazing cattle resilience by integrating host growth, parasite, grass and environmental dynamics
2022· 1 citedOpen Access
Seasonal epidemiology of gastrointestinal nematodes of cattle in the northern continental climate zone of western Canada as revealed by internal transcribed spacer-2 ribosomal DNA nemabiome barcoding
Parasites & Vectors·2021· 20 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Louis L. Whitcomb(15), Eric R. Morgan(15), Michael V. Jakuba(7), Stefano Suman(7), Christopher R. German(7), Stephen Elliott(6), Antje Boëtius(6), Hannah Rose Vineer(6), Marcel Nicolaus(5), Andrew J. Bowen(5), I. Kyriazakis(5), Elizabeth Redman(5), Arianna Morosetti(5), Rebecca Chen(5), Douglas D. Colwell(5), John S. Gilleard(5), Christian Katlein(4), James C. Kinsey(4), D. Yoerger(4), John W. Bailey(4)