Disease Ecology Community Structure and Pathogen Dynamics

by Collinge, Sharon K.; Ray, Chris

• ISBN13: 9780198567073
• ISBN10: 0198567073
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-03-30
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Disease Ecology highlights exciting advances in theoretical and empirical research towards understanding the importance of community structure in the emergence of infectious diseases. The chapters in this book illustrate aspects of community ecology that influence pathogen transmission ratesand disease dynamics in a wide variety of study systems. The innovative studies presented here communicate a clear message: studies of epidemiology can be approached from the perspective of community ecology, and students of community ecology can contribute significantly to epidemiology.

Table of Contents

Contributors	xi
Community epidemiology	1	(5)
Sharon K. Collinge
Chris Ray
Extending the principles of community ecology to address the epidemiology of host-pathogen systems	6	(22)
Robert D. Holt
Andrew P. Dobson
Community ecology meets epidemiology: the case of Lyme disease	28	(13)
Richard S. Ostfeld
Felicia Keesing
Kathleen LoGiudice
Microbial community ecology of tick-borne human pathogens	41	(17)
Keith Clay
Clay Fuqua
Curt Lively
Michael J. Wade
Disease dynamics in plant communities	58	(15)
Charles E. Mitchell
Alison G. Power
Host selection and its role in transmission of arboviral encephalitides	73	(17)
Robert S. Unnasch
Eddie W. Cupp
Thomas R. Unnasch
Freshwater community interactions and malaria	90	(15)
Eliska Rejmankova
John Grieco
Nicole Achee
Penny Masuoka
Kevin Pope
Donald Roberts
Richard M. Higashi
The community ecology of Vibrio cholerae	105	(14)
Kathryn L. Cottingham
Julia M. Butzler
Food webs and parasites in a salt marsh ecosystem	119	(16)
Kevin D. Lafferty
Ryan F. Hechinger
Jenny C. Shaw
Kathleen Whitney
Armand M. Kuris
Shifting roles of abiotic and biotic regulation of a multi-host parasite following disturbance	135	(18)
Mary F. Poteet
Urbanization and disease in amphibians	153	(15)
David K. Skelly
Susan R. Bolden
Manja P. Holland
L. Kealoha Freidenburg
Nicole A. Freidenfelds
Trent R. Malcolm
Spatial-temporal dynamics of rabies in ecological communities	168	(18)
Leslie A. Real
James E. Childs
The emergence of Nipah and Hendra virus: pathogen dynamics across a wildlife-livestock-human continuum	186	(16)
Peter Daszak
R. K. Plowright
J. H. Epstein
J. Pulliam
S. Abdul Rahman
H. E. Field
A. Jamaluddin
S. H. Sharifah
C. S. Smith
K. J. Olival
S. Luby
K. Halpin
A. D. Hyatt
A. A. Cunningham
Potential effects of a keystone species on the dynamics of sylvatic plague	202	(15)
Chris Ray
Sharon K. Collinge
Index	217