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Wildlife Disease Ecology

Wildlife Disease Ecology

Wildlife Disease Ecology

Linking Theory to Data and Application
Kenneth Wilson , Lancaster University
Andy Fenton , University of Liverpool
Dan Tompkins , Predator Free 2050 Ltd
January 2020
Available
Hardback
9781107136564

    Just like humans, animals and plants suffer from infectious diseases, which can critically threaten biodiversity. This book describes key studies that have driven our understanding of the ecology and evolution of wildlife diseases. Each chapter introduces the host and disease, and explains how that system has aided our general understanding of the evolution and spread of wildlife diseases, through the development and testing of important epidemiological and evolutionary theories. Questions addressed include: How do hosts and parasites co-evolve? What determines how fast a disease spreads through a population? How do co-infecting parasites interact? Why do hosts vary in parasite burden? Which factors determine parasite virulence and host resistance? How do parasites influence the spread of invasive species? How do we control infectious diseases in wildlife? This book will provide a valuable introduction to students new to the topic, and novel insights to researchers, professionals and policymakers working in the field.

    • Integrates theory and application of wildlife disease ecology, enabling readers to gain a deep understanding of the subject in real world examples
    • Using key case studies in the field, the book illustrates the development and testing of important epidemiological and evolutionary theories
    • Extensively illustrated and written in an engaging style, the book provides an valuable introduction to students new to the field, as well as delivering novel insights for researchers, managers and policymakers

    Reviews & endorsements

    'Overall, this is a fascinating collection of studies that showcases why wildlife diseases are worthy of study and how combining field observations, experiments, mathematical models and the latest in genomic and molecular research provides not only research insight, but also contributes to effective conservation and management efforts.' Rob Robinson, British Trust for Ornithology

    'Advances in modeling, epidemiologic techniques, and genetics have been crucial in some examples treated by contributors, and the importance of long-term field studies, essential for understanding dynamic systems, is emphasized throughout the volume. Some studies are observational, some experimental, and some largely theoretical. All contributions are extensively referenced and effectively illustrated.' M. Gochfeld, Choice

    ‘Overall, this well-written book is, in my opinion, a valuable contribution that will encourage further collecting and analysing long-term data in the study of wildlife diseases. It also gives hope. The advances in our understanding of wildlife disease dynamics enable better planning of conservation and management efforts, as shown in the case of wild and farmed salmon or the bighorn sheep pneumonia. As such, it is undoubtedly of high value for researchers and managers working in the field of wildlife disease ecology, but also for advanced undergraduate students or academic lecturers who would like to broaden their knowledge. The book was a great company during the coronavirus lockdown and a fascinating journey through the realm of wildlife diseases. I highly recommend it!’ Agata Mrugala, Basic and Applied Ecology

    ‘This book comes to fill an important niche in disease ecology: synthesizing the state of knowledge about wildlife disease ecology while integrating theoretical models with a wide variety empirical case studies … this book presents an invaluable synthesis of our knowledge of disease ecology in wildlife hosts.’ Miguel A. Acevedo, The Quarterly Review of Biology

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    Product details

    January 2020
    Hardback
    9781107136564
    690 pages
    252 × 180 × 35 mm
    1.58kg
    284 b/w illus.
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • Preface: wildlife disease ecology
    • Glossary of terms
    • Part I. Understanding Within-Host Processes:
    • 1. Pollinator diseases: the Bombus-Crithidia system
    • 2. Genetic diversity and disease spread: epidemiological models and empirical studies of a snail-trematode system
    • 3. Wild rodents as a natural model to study within-host parasite interactions
    • 4. From population to individual host scale and back again: testing theories of infection and defence in the Soay sheep of St Kilda
    • 5. The causes and consequences of parasite interactions: African buffalo as a case study
    • 6. Effects of host lifespan on the evolution of age-specific resistance: a case study of anther-smut disease on wild carnations
    • 7. Sexually transmitted infections in natural populations: what have we learnt from beetles and beyond?
    • Part II. Understanding Between-Host Processes:
    • 8. Using insect baculoviruses to understand how population structure affects disease spread
    • 9. Infection and invasion: study cases from aquatic communities
    • 10. Parasite mediated selection in red grouse – consequences for population dynamics and mate choice
    • 11. Emergence, transmission and evolution of an uncommon enemy: Tasmanian devil facial tumour disease
    • 12. Bovine tuberculosis in badgers: sociality, infection and demography in a social mammal
    • 13. Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae in bighorn sheep: from exploration to action
    • 14. Manipulating parasites in an Arctic herbivore: gastrointestinal nematodes and the population regulation of Svalbard reindeer
    • Part III. Understanding Wildlife Disease Ecology at the Community and Landscape Level:
    • 15. The ecological and evolutionary trajectory of oak powdery mildew in Europe
    • 16. Healthy herds or predator spreaders? Insights from the plankton into how predators suppress and spread disease
    • 17. Multi-trophic interactions and migration behaviour determine the ecology and evolution of parasite infection in monarch butterflies
    • 18. When chytrid fungus invades: integrating theory and data to understand disease- induced amphibian declines
    • 19. Ecology of a marine ectoparasite in farmed and wild salmon
    • 20. Mycoplasmal conjunctivitis in house finches: the study of an emerging disease
    • 21. Heterogeneities in infection and transmission in a parasite-rabbit system: key issues for understanding disease dynamics and persistence
    • 22. Sylvatic plague in Central Asia: a case study of abundance thresholds.
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      Contributors
    • Kenneth Wilson, Andy Fenton, Dan Tompkins, Paul Schmid-Hempel, Lena Wilfert, Regula Schmid-Hempel, Amanda K. Gibson, Curtis M. Lively, Amy B. Pedersen, Adam D. Hayward, Romain Garnier, Dylan Z. Childs, Bryan T. Grenfell, Katherine A. Watt, Jill G. Pilkington, Josephine M. Pemberton, Andrea L. Graham, Vanessa O. Ezenwa, Anna E. Jolles, Brianna R. Beechler, Sarah A. Budischak, Erin E. Gorsich, Emily Bruns, Ben Ashby, Jordan E. Jones, Robert J. Knell, Gregory D. D. Hurst, Bret D. Elderd, Greg Dwyer, Melanie J. Hatcher, Jamie T. A. Dick, Jamie Bojka, Grant D. Stentiford, Paul Stebbing, Alison M. Dunn, Jesús Martínez-Padilla, Marius Wenzel, François Mougeot, Lorenzo Pérez-Rodríguez, Stuart Piertney, Stephen M. Redpath, Menna E. Jones, Rodrigo Hamede, Andrew Storfer, Paul Hohenlohe, Elizabeth P. Murchison, Hamish McCallum, Jenni L. McDonald, Richard J. Delahay, Robbie A. McDonald, Kezia Manlove, Emily S. Almberg, Pauline L. Kamath, Raina K. Plowright, Thomas E. Besser, Peter J. Hudson, R. Justin Irvine, Steve D. Albon, Audun Stien, Odd Halvorsen, Anja M. Carlsson, Marie-Laure Desprez-Loustau, Frédéric M. Hamelin, Benoit Marçais, Meghan A. Duffy, Carla E. Cáceres, Spencer R. Hall, Jacobus C. de Roode, Sonia Altizer, Mark D. Hunter, Mark Q. Wilber, Pieter T. J. Johnson, Cheryl J. Briggs, Stephanie J. Peacock, Andrew W. Bateman, Brendan Connors, Sean Godwin, Mark A. Lewis, Martin KrkoÅ¡ek, André A. Dhondt, Andrew P. Dobson, Wesley M. Hochachka, Isabella M. Cattadori, Ashutosh Pathak, Brian Boag, Mike Begon, Stephen Davis, Anne Laudisoit, Jonas Reijniers

    • Editors
    • Kenneth Wilson

      Kenneth Wilson is Professor of Evolutionary Ecology at Lancaster University. With more than twenty-five years' experience in studying wildlife disease ecology, he has published more than 120 peer reviewed articles and chapters, and is Senior Editor of the Journal of Animal Ecology.

    • Andy Fenton

      Andy Fenton is Professor of Theoretical Ecology at the University of Liverpool. He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Animal Ecology and Parasitology and has published more than eighty peer reviewed papers.

    • Dan Tompkins , Predator Free 2050 Ltd

      Dan Tompkins is Project Manager Science Strategy at Predator Free 2050 Ltd, Auckland, and Honorary Professor in the Department of Zoology, University of Otago, New Zealand.

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