Ecology of Wildlife Diseases in the Neotropics [E-Book] / edited by Gerardo Acosta-Jamett, Andrea Chaves.
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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Personal Name(s): | Acosta-Jamett, Gerardo, editor |
Chaves, Andrea, editor | |
Edition: |
1st edition 2024. |
Imprint: |
Cham :
Springer,
2024
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Physical Description: |
XX, 412 pages 60 illustrations, 55 illustrations in color (online resource) |
Note: |
englisch |
ISBN: |
9783031505317 |
DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-031-50531-7 |
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- 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.