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Infectious disease ecology : effects of ecosystems on disease and of disease on ecosystems /

News headlines are forever reporting diseases that take huge tolls on humans, wildlife, domestic animals, and both cultivated and native plants worldwide. These diseases can also completely transform the ecosystems that feed us and provide us with other critical benefits, from flood control to water...

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Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Group Author: Eviner, Valerie T.; Keesing, Felicia; Ostfeld, Richard S.
Published: Princeton University Press,
Publisher Address: Princeton, N.J. :
Publication Dates: [2008]
©2008
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Edition: Course Book.
Subjects:
Communicable diseases in animals > Environmental aspects.
Ecosystem health.
Host-parasite relationships > Environmental aspects.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Anatomy &amp > Physiology.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biology.
Biology.
Biowissenschaften, Biologie.
Communicable diseases.
Ecology.
Ecosystem.
Environment.
Environmental Microbiology.
Host-Parasite Interactions.
Life Sciences, other.
Natural history.
Natural Sciences.
kosystem.
Parasit.
Science.
Tierkrankheit.
Wirt.
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781400837885
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Summary: News headlines are forever reporting diseases that take huge tolls on humans, wildlife, domestic animals, and both cultivated and native plants worldwide. These diseases can also completely transform the ecosystems that feed us and provide us with other critical benefits, from flood control to water purification. And yet diseases sometimes serve to maintain the structure and function of the ecosystems on which humans depend. Gathering thirteen essays by forty leading experts who convened at the Cary Conference at the Institute of Ecosystem Studies in 2005, this book develops an integrated framework for understanding where these diseases come from, what ecological factors influence their impacts, and how they in turn influence ecosystem dynamics. It marks the first comprehensive and in-depth exploration of the rich and complex linkages between ecology and disease, and provides conceptual underpinnings to understand and ameliorate epidemics. It also sheds light on the roles that diseases play in ecosystems, bringing vital new insights to landscape management issues in particular. While the ecological context is a key piece of the puzzle, effective control and understanding of diseases requires the interaction of professionals in medicine, epidemiology, veterinary medicine, forestry, agriculture, and ecology. The essential resource on the subject, Infectious Disease Ecology seeks to bridge these fields with an ecological approach that focuses on systems thinking and complex interactions.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (520 pages) : illustrations
ISBN: 9781400837885
Index Number: QH541
CLC: Q958.1
Contents: Frontmatter --
CONTENTS --
Acknowledgments --
List of Contributors --
Introduction /
Chapter One. Effects of Host Diversity on Disease Dynamics /
Chapter Two. The Role of Vector Diversity in Disease Dynamics /
Chapter Three. Understanding Host- Multipathogen Systems: Modeling the Interaction Between Ecology and Immunology /
Chapter Four. Influence of Eutrophication on Disease in Aquatic Ecosystems: Patterns, Processes, and Predictions /
Chapter Five. Landscape Structure, Disturbance, And Disease Dynamics /
Chapter Six. Effects of Disease on Keystone Species, Dominant Species, and their Communities /
Chapter Seven. Red Queen Communities /
Chapter Eight. Invasion Biology and Parasitic Infections /
Chapter Nine. Effects of Disease on Community Interactions and Food Web Structure /
Chapter Ten. Is Infectious Disease just another Type of Predator- Prey Interaction? /
Chapter Eleven. Microbial Disease in the Sea: Effects of Viruses on Carbon and Nu

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