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Infectious Disease Ecology of Wild Birds (Paperback)
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Infectious Disease Ecology of Wild Birds (Paperback)
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Birds are the most diverse group of land vertebrates and have
evolved to exploit almost every terrestrial niche on earth. They
also serve as a natural reservoir for an array of different
pathogens that pose serious health risks to human and domestic
animal populations, including West Nile virus, highly pathogenic
avian influenza viruses, Newcastle Disease virus, and numerous
enteric pathogens. Avian diseases are also critically important to
the conservation of endemic bird species in many places around the
world. This accessible textbook focuses on the dynamics of
infectious diseases for wild avian hosts across every level of
ecological hierarchy, from the way pathogens interact with the
physiology and behavior of individual hosts, the evolutionary and
ecological dynamics of the host-parasite interactions occurring
within populations, up to the complex biotic and abiotic
interactions occurring within biological communities and
ecosystems. Parasite-bird interactions are also increasingly
occurring in rapidly changing global environments - thus, their
ecology is also changing - and this shapes the complex ways by
which parasites influence the inter-connected health of birds,
humans, and shared ecosystems. Given the key role of birds in
ecological communities more broadly, and as the primary host to so
many zoonotic pathogens, an understanding of the ecological and
evolutionary principles underlying the maintenance, amplification,
transmission, and dispersal of these infectious agents is crucial
to understanding how to mitigate the negative global impacts of the
ever-increasing number of emerging infectious diseases. Although
the topics and principles discussed in this book relate to birds,
they have a far wider relevance and can also be applied to
non-avian, wildlife host-pathogen systems. The COVID-19 pandemic
has shown that understanding of disease ecology in wild animal
populations is paramount to global health. Infectious Disease
Ecology of Wild Birds is suitable for both senior undergraduate and
graduate students taking courses in avian disease ecology,
ecoimmunology, ecology, and conservation. It will also appeal to
the many professional parasitologists, ecoimmunologists,
ornithologists, behavioural ecologists, conservation biologists,
and wildlife biologists requiring a concise overview of the topic.
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