New directions in conservation medicine : applied cases of ecological health / edited by A. Alonso Aguirre, Richard S. Ostfeld, and Peter Daszak.
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- Language:
- English
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- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (666 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In recent years, species and ecosystems have been threatened by many anthropogenic factors manifested in local and global declines of populations and species. Although we consider conservation medicine an emerging field, the concept is the result of the long evolution of transdisciplinary thinking within the health and ecological sciences and the better understanding of the complexity within these various fields of knowledge. Conservation medicine was born from the cross fertilization of ideas generated by this new transdisciplinary design. It examines the links among changes in climate, habit
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- pt. 1. Conservation medicine : ecological health in practice
- pt. 2. Anthropotenic change and conservation medicine
- pt. 3. Emerging infectious diseases and conservation medicine
- pt. 4. Ecotoxicology and conservation medicine
- pt. 5. Place-based conservation medicine
- pt. 6. Applied techniques of conservation medicine.
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- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
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- 1-280-59551-5
- 9786613625342
- 0-19-990905-9
- OCLC:
- 751780353
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