Disease Ecology: Community Structure and Pathogen Dynamics

This Study Contends 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. It Highlights Research Towards Understanding The Importance Of This Community Structure. Community Epidemiology / Sharon K. Collinge And Chris Ray -- Extending The Principles Of Community Ecology To Address The Epidemiology Of Host-pathogen Systems / Robert D. Holt And Andrew P. Dobson -- Community Ecology Meets Epidemiology: The Case Of Lyme Disease / Richard S. Ostfeld, Felicia Keesing, And Kathleen Logiudice -- Microbial Community Ecology Of Tick-borne Human Pathogens / Keith Clay [and Others] -- Disease Dynamics In Plant Communities / Charles E. Mitchell And Alison G. Power -- Host Selection And Its Role In Transmission Of Arboviral Encephalitides / Robert S. Unnasch, Eddie W. Cupp, And Thomas R. Unnasch. Freshwater Community Interactions And Malaria / Eliška Rejmánková [and Others] -- The Community Ecology Of Vibrio Cholerae / Kathryn L. Cottingham And Julia M. Butzler -- Food Webs And Parasites In A Salt Marsh Ecosystem / Kevin D. Lafferty [and Others] -- Shifting Roles Of Abiotic And Biotic Regulation Of A Multi-host Parasite Following Disturbance / Mary F. Poteet -- Urbanization And Disease In Amphibians / David K. Skelly [and Others] -- Spatial-temporal Dynamics Of Rabies In Ecological Communities / Leslie A. Real And James E. Childs -- The Emergence Of Nipah And Hendr Virus: Pathogen Dynamics Across A Wildlife-livestock-human Continuum / Peter Daszak [and Others] -- Potential Effects Of A Keystone Species On The Dynamics Of Sylvatic Plague / Chris Ray And Sharon K. Collinge. Edited By Sharon K. Collinge And Chris Ray. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.