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Disease Ecology
Community Structure and Pathogen Dynamics

Edited by Sharon K. Collinge and Chris Ray

Price: £39.95 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-856708-0
Publication date: 26 January 2006
240 pages, 64 figures, 246x189 mm
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Reviews
  • 'This book is a timely statement of the areas of disease ecology where most progress is likely to be made in future.' - Keith Day and Brian Rushton, THES
  • ''For those less familiar with infectious diseases the book provides fascinating insights into their ecological context..we would recommend it to any ecology student.'' - Keith Day and Brian Rushton The Times Higher Education Supplement
  • ''This book should be invaluable for advanced undergraduate teaching, and gives a fresh range of subjects to choose from.'' - Des Thompson, Bulletin of the British Ecological Society 37:3

Description
  • Strengthens the integration of community ecology and epidemiology
  • Focuses on aspects of community ecology that influence pathogen transmission rate and disease dynamics in a variety of study systems
  • Boxes highlight key concepts and novel techniques in disease ecology, and a common chapter plan creates a cohesive reading experience
  • Brings together cutting-edge contributions from the leading figures in the field
  • Outlines a future research agenda
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.

Readership: A research level text suitable for graduate level students as well as professional researchers in ecology, parasitology, epidemiology and evolutionary biology.

Contents
1. Community ecology meets epidemiology , Sharon K. Collinge and Chris Ray
2. Extending the principles of community ecology to address the epidemiology of host-pathogen systems , Robert D. Holt and Andrew P. Dobson
3. Community ecology meets epidemiology: the case of Lyme disease , Richard S. Ostfeld, Felicia Keesing, and Kathleen LoGiudice
4. Microbial community ecology of tick-borne human pathogens , Keith Clay, Clay Fuqua, Curt Lively and Michael J. Wade
5. Disease dynamics in plant communities , Charles E. Mitchell and Alison G. Power
6. Host selection and its role in transmission of arboviral encephalitides , Robert S. Unnasch, Eddie W. Cupp and Thomas R. Unnasch
7. Freshwater community interactions and malaria , Eliska Rejmankova , John Grieco, Nicole Achee, Penny Masuoka, Kevin Pope, Donald Roberts, and Richard M.Higashi
8. The community ecology of Vibrio cholerae , Kathryn L. Cottingham and Julia M. Butzler
9. Food webs and parasites in a salt marsh ecosystem , Kevin D. Lafferty, Ryan F. Hechinger, Jenny Shaw, Kathleen Whitney, and Armand M. Kuris
10. Shifting roles of abiotic and biotic regulation of a multi-host parasite following disturbance , Mary F. Poteet
11. Urbanization and disease in amphibians , David K. Skelly, Susan R. Bolden, Manja P. Holland, L. Kealoha Freidenburg, Nicole A. Freidenfelds, and Trent R. Malcolm
12. Spatial-temporal dynamics of rabies in ecological communities , Leslie A. Real and James E. Childs
13. The emergence of Nipah and Hendra virus: pathogen dynamics across a wildlife-livestock-human continuum , Peter Daszak, R. Plowright, J. H. Epstein, J. Pulliam, S. Abdul Rahman, H. E. Field, A. Jamalludin, M. Y. Johara, C. S. Smith, K. J. Olival, S. Luby, K. Halpin, A. D. Hyatt, A. A. Cunningham, and the Henipavirus Ecology Research Group (HERG)
14. Potential effects of a keystone species on the dynamics of sylvatic plague , Chris Ray and Sharon K. Collinge

Authors, editors, and contributors


Edited by Sharon K. Collinge, Associate Professor, University of Colorado and
Chris Ray, Research Associate, University of Colorado


Links to web resources and related information
More in the same subject area:
Animal pathology & diseases
Animal ecology
Invertebrates
Life sciences: general issues
Ecological science, the Biosphere
Microbiology (non-medical)
Parasitology

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