Ecology of Wildlife Diseases in the Neotropics
This contributed volume focuses on the Neotropical region, and explores the environmental, ecological and socio-economic components that facilitate the emergence of zoonotic diseases. This book highlights the primary ecological, environmental, social, and economic variables associated with the risk...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2024, 2024
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2024 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter. 1. An introduction to the Ecology of Wildlife Diseases in the Neotropics
- Chapter. 2. The Development of Disease Ecology as a Science in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Chapter. 3. Emerging infectious diseases and their impacts on South American amphibians
- Chapter. 4. Disease ecology in terrestrial reptiles from Latin America: a call for research
- Chapter. 5. Avian Disease Ecology in the Neotropics
- Chapter. 6. Marine bird of neotropics, what we know, and we should know of diseases in a changing world
- Chapter. 7. Rodents as key hosts of zoonotic pathogens and parasites in the Neotropics
- Chapter. 8. Bats, pathogen diversity and rabies in a changing neotropic landscape
- Chapter. 9. Neotropical primates and humans: risk of bi-directional parasite transmission and disease sharing in fragmented and pristine landscapes
- Chapter. 10. Pathogen transmission and the risk of spill-over for wild carnivores in the Neotropics.-Chapter. 11. Disease Ecology in Wild South American Camelids: Conservation implications of a long cohabitation history with exotic ungulates
- Chapter. 12. Infectious diseases of marine mammals as sentinels of ecosystem health in the neotropics
- Chapter. 13. Tick-borne microorganisms in neotropical vertebrates
- Chapter. 14. Ecology of internal parasites and their impact on the health and conservation of Neotropical vertebrates