Infectious Disease Ecology: Effects of Ecosystems on Disease and of Disease on Ecosystems

Published by Princeton University Press 2008

Infectious Disease Ecology

Effects of Ecosystems on Disease and of Disease on Ecosystems

Edited by: Richard S. Ostfeld , Felicia Keesing and Valerie T. Eviner

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400837885

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About this book

News headlines are forever reporting diseases that take huge tolls on humans, wildlife, domestic animals, and both cultivated and native plants worldwide. These diseases can also completely transform the ecosystems that feed us and provide us with other critical benefits, from flood control to water purification. And yet diseases sometimes serve to maintain the structure and function of the ecosystems on which humans depend.

Gathering thirteen essays by forty leading experts who convened at the Cary Conference at the Institute of Ecosystem Studies in 2005, this book develops an integrated framework for understanding where these diseases come from, what ecological factors influence their impacts, and how they in turn influence ecosystem dynamics. It marks the first comprehensive and in-depth exploration of the rich and complex linkages between ecology and disease, and provides conceptual underpinnings to understand and ameliorate epidemics. It also sheds light on the roles that diseases play in ecosystems, bringing vital new insights to landscape management issues in particular. While the ecological context is a key piece of the puzzle, effective control and understanding of diseases requires the interaction of professionals in medicine, epidemiology, veterinary medicine, forestry, agriculture, and ecology. The essential resource on the subject, Infectious Disease Ecology seeks to bridge these fields with an ecological approach that focuses on systems thinking and complex interactions.

Author / Editor information

Richard S. Ostfeld is senior scientist at the Institute of Ecosystem Studies. Felicia Keesing is associate professor of biology at Bard College. Valerie T. Eviner is assistant professor of plant sciences at the University of California, Davis.

Reviews

"This book provides the most comprehensive treatment of the ecology of infectious diseases that has appeared in the last decade. To have so many examples and so much top-notch scholarship in the same volume is extraordinarily useful."—Michael F. Antolin, Colorado State University

"This book introduces the latest thinking in an exciting new field in biology: disease ecology. The authors assembled represent the most diverse collection of experts ever appearing together in one book on the subject. Both graduate students and readers from outside the field will find it exceptionally useful. It will be the source."—Peter Kareiva, Nature Conservancy

Overall, the book is quite strong, and offers useful and thorough overviews, a difference from the usual reworks and overviews that pervade edited volumes--in this sense, the editors are to be congratulated. . . . [T]his book is a useful picture of the state of the field, and could be a basis for graduate-level seminars treating the field of disease ecology.---A. Townsend Peterson, Quarterly Review of Biology

[T]his is an enormously useful book which, for the first time, brings together a wide range of disciplinary expertise under the umbrella of a comprehensive, integrated approach towards understanding the interrelationship between disease and ecology. . . . This book is tremendously recommendable. It provides comprehensive cutting edge insights into the fascinating interplay of the proximate and ultimate forces that shape the host-pathogen race. . . . It will be the standard for some time to come.---Holger Schutkowski, Journal of Archaeological Science

Infectious Disease Ecology provides new and useful insights that expand upon earlier works in the field.---Gregory E. Glass, BioScience

One exciting aspect of this book is that 'ecologists' and 'epidemiologists' and 'microbiologists' and 'botanists' and various other scholars were brought together to share ideas, data, and inferences. This volume reflects such interdisciplinary exchange, and more interactions like this are sorely needed. . . . It is highly recommended as a useful set of readings for ecologists interested in disease-causing microbes, and for epidemiologists seeking understanding of the ecosystem interactions that affect infectious agent transmission.---Mark L. Wilson, Ecology

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Introduction Felicia Keesing, Richard S. Ostfeld and Valerie T. Eviner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I. Effects of Ecosystems on Disease
Introduction Felicia Keesing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Chapter One. Effects of Host Diversity on Disease Dynamics Michael Begon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	12
Chapter Two. The Role of Vector Diversity in Disease Dynamics Alison G. Power and Alexander S. Flecker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
Chapter Three. Understanding Host- Multipathogen Systems: Modeling the Interaction Between Ecology and Immunology Pejman Rohani, Helen J. Wearing, Daniel A. Vasco and Yunxin Huang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
Chapter Four. Influence of Eutrophication on Disease in Aquatic Ecosystems: Patterns, Processes, and Predictions Pieter T. J. Johnson and Stephen R. Carpenter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Chapter Five. Landscape Structure, Disturbance, And Disease Dynamics Hamish McCallum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
PART II. Effects of Disease on Ecosystems
Introduction Valerie T. Eviner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Chapter Six. Effects of Disease on Keystone Species, Dominant Species, and their Communities Sharon K. Collinge, Chris Ray and Jack F. Cully Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Chapter Seven. Red Queen Communities Keith Clay, Kurt Reinhart, Jennifer Rudgers, Tammy Tintjer, Jennifer Koslow and S. Luke Flory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Chapter Eight. Invasion Biology and Parasitic Infections Sarah E. Perkins, Sonia Altizer, Ottar Bjornstad, Jeremy J. Burdon, Keith Clay, Lorena Gómez- Aparicio, Jonathan M. Jeschke, Pieter T. J. Johnson, Kevin D. Lafferty, Carolyn M. Malmstrom, Patrick Martin, Alison Power, David L. Strayer, Peter H. Thrall and Maria Uriarte Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Chapter Nine. Effects of Disease on Community Interactions and Food Web Structure Kevin D. Lafferty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Chapter Ten. Is Infectious Disease just another Type of Predator- Prey Interaction? Spencer R. Hall, Kevin D. Lafferty, James H. Brown, Carla E. Cáceres, Jonathan M. Chase, Andrew P. Dobson, Robert D. Holt, Clive G. Jones, Sarah E. Randolph and Pejman Rohani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Chapter Eleven. Microbial Disease in the Sea: Effects of Viruses on Carbon and Nutrient Cycling Mathias Middelboe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	242
Chapter Twelve. Effects of Pathogens on Terrestrial Ecosystem Function Valerie T. Eviner and Gene E. Likens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	260
Chapter Thirteen. Disease Effects on Landscape and Regional Systems: a Resilience Framework F. Stuart Chapin, Valerie T. Eviner, Lee M. Talbot, Bruce A. Wilcox, Dawn R. Magness, Carol A Brewer and Daniel S. Keebler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	284
Chapter Fourteen.. Research Frontiers in Ecological Systems: Evaluating the Impacts of Infectious Disease on Ecosystems Sharon L. Deem, Vanessa O. Ezenwa, Jessica R. Ward and Bruce A. Wilcox Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	304
PART III. Management and Applications
Introduction Richard S. Ostfeld Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
Chapter Fifteen. The Community Context of Disease Emergence: Could Changes in Predation Be a Key Driver? Robert D. Holt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	324
Chapter Sixteen. The Emergence of Wildlife Disease and the Application of Ecology Peter J. Hudson, Sarah E. Perkins and Isabella M. Cattadori Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
Chapter Seventeen. Applied Biodiversity Science: Managing Emerging Diseases in Agriculture and Linked Natural Systems Using Ecological Principles K. A. Garrett and C. M. Cox Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	368
Chapter Eighteen. The Ecology of an Infectious Coral Disease in the Florida Keys: From Pathogens to Politics James W. Porter, Erin K. Lipp, Kathryn P. Sutherland and Erich Mueller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	387
Chapter Nineteen. Infection And Ecology: Calomys Callosus, Machupo Virus, and Acute Hemorrhagic Fever Karl M. Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	404
Chapter Twenty. Resolved: Emerging Infections of Humans Can Be Controlled by Ecological Interventions C. J. Peters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	423
Chapter Twenty- One. From Ecological Theory and Knowledge to Application James E. Childs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	441
Chapter Twenty- Two. Educating About Infectious Disease Ecology Carol A. Brewer, Alan R. Berkowitz, Patricia A. Conrad, James Porter and Margaret Waterman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	448
PART IV. Concluding Comments: Frontiers in the Ecology of Infectious Diseases
The Ecology of Infectious Diseases: Progress, Challenges, and Frontiers Richard S. Ostfeld, Felicia Keesing and Valerie T. Eviner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	469
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	483

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Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Edition: Course Book
Audience: Professional and scholarly;College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 520
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- Other: 66 line illus. 21 tables.
Keywords: coronavirus; coronavirus symptoms; coronavirus usa cases; Wuhan; Wuhan virus; wuhan coronavirus sequence; sars; mers; coronavirus precautions

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Published: December 16, 2010
ISBN: 9781400837885