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Disease Ecology - Community structure and pathogen dynamics (Paperback, New)
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Disease Ecology - Community structure and pathogen dynamics (Paperback, New)
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Many infectious diseases of recent concern, including malaria,
cholera, plague, and Lyme disease, have emerged from complex
ecological communities, involving multiple hosts and their
associated parasites. Several of these diseases appear to be
influenced by human impacts on the environment, such as intensive
agriculture, clear-cut forestry, and habitat loss and
fragmentation; such environmental impacts may affect many species
that occur at trophic levels below or above the host community.
These observations suggest that the prevalence of both human and
wildlife diseases may be altered in unanticipated ways by changes
in the structure and composition of ecological communities.
Predicting the epidemiological ramifications of such alteration in
community composition will require strengthening the current union
between community ecology and epidemiology. Disease Ecology
highlights exciting advances in theoretical and empirical research
towards understanding the importance of community structure in the
emergence of infectious diseases. To date, research on
host-parasite systems has tended to explore a limited set of
community interactions, such as a community of host species
infected by a single parasite species, or a community of parasites
infecting a single host. Less effort has been devoted to addressing
additional complications, such as multiple-host-multiple-parasite
systems, sequential hosts acting on different trophic levels,
alternate hosts with spatially varying interactions, effects
arising from trophic levels other than those of hosts and
parasites, or stochastic effects resulting from small population
size in at least one alternate host species. The chapters in this
book illustrate aspects of community ecology that influence
pathogen transmission rates and disease dynamics in a wide variety
of study systems. The innovative studies presented in Disease
Ecology communicate a clear message: studies of epidemiology can be
approached from the perspective of community ecology, and students
of community ecology can contribute significantly to epidemiology.
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