Wildlife Disease Ecology (eBook, PDF)

Linking Theory to Data and Application
Redaktion: Wilson, Kenneth

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Just like humans, animals and plants suffer from infectious diseases, which can critically threaten biodiversity. This book describes key studies that have driven our understanding of the ecology and evolution of wildlife diseases. Each chapter introduces the host and disease, and explains how that system has aided our general understanding of the evolution and spread of wildlife diseases, through the development and testing of important epidemiological and evolutionary theories. Questions addressed include: How do hosts and parasites co-evolve? What determines how fast a disease spreads through a population? How do co-infecting parasites interact? Why do hosts vary in parasite burden? Which factors determine parasite virulence and host resistance? How do parasites influence the spread of invasive species? How do we control infectious diseases in wildlife? This book will provide a valuable introduction to students new to the topic, and novel insights to researchers, professionals and policymakers working in the field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316997055
• Artikelnr.: 66231631

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: wildlife disease ecology; Glossary of terms; Part I. Understanding
Within-Host Processes: 1. Pollinator diseases: the Bombus-Crithidia system;
2. Genetic diversity and disease spread: epidemiological models and
empirical studies of a snail-trematode system; 3. Wild rodents as a natural
model to study within-host parasite interactions; 4. From population to
individual host scale and back again: testing theories of infection and
defence in the Soay sheep of St Kilda; 5. The causes and consequences of
parasite interactions: African buffalo as a case study; 6. Effects of host
lifespan on the evolution of age-specific resistance: a case study of
anther-smut disease on wild carnations; 7. Sexually transmitted infections
in natural populations: what have we learnt from beetles and beyond?; Part
II. Understanding Between-Host Processes: 8. Using insect baculoviruses to
understand how population structure affects disease spread; 9. Infection
and invasion: study cases from aquatic communities; 10. Parasite mediated
selection in red grouse - consequences for population dynamics and mate
choice; 11. Emergence, transmission and evolution of an uncommon enemy:
Tasmanian devil facial tumour disease; 12. Bovine tuberculosis in badgers:
sociality, infection and demography in a social mammal; 13. Mycoplasma
ovipneumoniae in bighorn sheep: from exploration to action; 14.
Manipulating parasites in an Arctic herbivore: gastrointestinal nematodes
and the population regulation of Svalbard reindeer; Part III. Understanding
Wildlife Disease Ecology at the Community and Landscape Level: 15. The
ecological and evolutionary trajectory of oak powdery mildew in Europe; 16.
Healthy herds or predator spreaders? Insights from the plankton into how
predators suppress and spread disease; 17. Multi-trophic interactions and
migration behaviour determine the ecology and evolution of parasite
infection in monarch butterflies; 18. When chytrid fungus invades:
integrating theory and data to understand disease- induced amphibian
declines; 19. Ecology of a marine ectoparasite in farmed and wild salmon;
20. Mycoplasmal conjunctivitis in house finches: the study of an emerging
disease; 21. Heterogeneities in infection and transmission in a
parasite-rabbit system: key issues for understanding disease dynamics and
persistence; 22. Sylvatic plague in Central Asia: a case study of abundance
thresholds.