Wildlife Disease Ecology: Linking Theory to Data and Application (Ecological Reviews)

Cambridge University Press, 11/14/2019
EAN 9781107136564, ISBN10: 1107136563

Hardcover, 690 pages, 25.1 x 18 x 3.6 cm
Language: English

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.

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.