Wildlife disease ecology : linking theory to data and application / edited by Kenneth Wilson, Lancaster University, Andy Fenton, University of Liverpool, Dan Tompkins, Predator Free 2050 Ltd.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wilson, Kenneth, 1963- editor.

Fenton, Andy, editor.

Tompkins, Dan, 1971- editor.

Cambridge University Press

Clarence J. Marshall Memorial Library Fund.

Series:

Ecological reviews

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communicable diseases.

Wildlife diseases.

Communicable diseases in animals.

Zoonoses.

Animal ecology--Health aspects.

Animal ecology.

Biodiversity conservation--Health aspects.

Biodiversity conservation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxv, 655 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (chiefly color.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Contents:

Preface: Wildlife disease ecology / Kenneth Wilson, Andy Fenton & Dan Tompkins

Glossary of terms / Andy Fenton, Dan Tompkins and Kenneth Wilson

Part I. Understanding within-host processes. 1. Pollinator diseases : the Bombus-Crithidia system / Paul Schmid-Hempel, Lena Wilfert and Regula Schmid-Hempel ; 2. Genetic diversity and disease spread : epidemiological models and empirical studies of a snail-trematode system / Amanda K. Gibson and Curtis M. Lively ; 3. Wild rodents as a natural model to study within-host parasite interactions / Amy B. Pedersen and Andy Fenton ; 4. From population to individual host scale and back again : testing theories of infection and defence in the Soay sheep of St. Kilda / Adam D. Hayward, Romain Garnier, Dylan Z. Childs, Bryan T. Grenfell, Kathryn A. Watt, Jill G. Pilkington, Josephine M. Pemberton and Andrea L. Graham ; 5. The causes and consequences of parasite interactions : African buffalo as a case study / Vanessa O. Ezenwa, Anna E. Jolles, Brianna R. Beechler, Sarah A. Budischak and Erin E. Gorsich ; 6. Effects of host lifespan on the evolution of age-specific resistance : a case study of anther-smut disease on wild carnations / Emily Bruns ; 7. Sexually transmitted infections in natural populations : what have we learnt from beetles and beyond? / Ben Ashby, Jordan E. Jones, Robert J. Knell and Gregory D.D. Hurst

Part II. Understanding between-host processes. 8. Using insect baculoviruses to understand how population structure affects disease spread / Bret D. Elderd and Greg Dwyer ; 9. Infection and invasion : study cases from aquatic communities / Melanie J. Hatcher, Jaimie T.A. Dick, Jamie Bojko, Grant D. Stentiford, Paul Stebbing and Alison M. Dunn ; 10. Parasite-mediated selection in red grouse : consequences for population dynamics and mate choice / Jesús Martínez-Padilla, Marius Wenzel, François Mougeot, Lorenzo Pérez-Rodríguez, Stuart Piertney and Stephen M. Redpath ; 11. Emergence, transmission and evolution of an uncommon enemy : Tasmanian devil facial tumour disease / Menna E. Jones, Rodrigo Hamede, Andrew Storfer, Paul Hohenlohe, Elizabeth P. Murchison and Hamish McCallum ; 12. Bovine tuberculosis in badgers : sociality, infection and demography in a social mammal / Jenni L. McDonald, Richard J. Delahay and Robbie A. McDonald ; 13. Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae in bighorn sheep : from exploration to action / Kezia Manlove, Emily S. Almberg, Pauline L. Kamath, Raina K. Plowright, Thomas E. Besser and Peter J. Hudson ; 14. Manipulating parasites in an Arctic herbivore : gastrointestinal nematodes and the population regulation of Svalbard reindeer / R. Justin Irvine, Steve D. Albon, Audun Stien, Odd Halvorsen and Anja M. Carlsson

Part III. Understanding wildlife disease ecology at the community and landscape level. 15. The ecological and evolutionary trajectory of oak powdery mildew in Europe / Marie-Laure Desprez-Loustau, Frédéric M. Hamelin and Benoit Marçais ; 16. Healthy herds or predator spreaders? : insights from the plankton into how predators suppress and spread disease / Meghan A. Duffy, Carla E. Cáceres and Spencer R. Hall ; 17. Multi-trophic interactions and migration behaviour determine the ecology and evolution of parasite infection in monarch butterflies / Jacobus C. de Roode, Sonia Altizer and Mark D. Hunter ; 18. When chytrid fungus invades : integrating theory and data to understand disease-induced amphibian declines / Mark Q. Wilber, Pieter T.J. Johnson and Cheryl J. Briggs ; 19. Ecology of a marine ectoparasite in farmed and wild salmon / Stephanie J. Peacock, Andrew W. Bateman, Brendan Connors, Sean Godwin, Mark A. Lewis and Martin Krkošek ; 20. Mycoplasmal conjunctivitis in house finches : the study of an emerging disease / André A. Dhondt, Andrew P. Dobson and Wesley M. Hochachka ; 21. Processes generating heterogeneities in infection and transmission in a parasite-rabbit system / Isabella M. Cattadori, Ashutosh Pathak and Brian Boag ; 22. Sylvatic plague in Central Asia : a case study of abundance thresholds / Mike Begon, Stephen Davis, Anne Laudisoit, Herwig Leirs and Jonas Reijniers.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Clarence J. Marshall Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

9781316479964 (electronic bk.)

131647996X (electronic bk.)

Publisher Number:

99995638251

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