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xxiv, 407 pages : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
I. Ecological Health and Change -- 2 Defining Conservation Medicine / Gary M. Tabor 8 -- 3 Conservation Medicine: The Birth of Another Crisis Discipline / Richard S. Ostfeld, Gary K. Meffe, Mary C. Pearl 17 -- 4 Biodiversity, Climate Change, and Emerging Infectious Diseases / Paul R. Epstein 27 -- 5 Emerging Infectious Diseases: A Key Role for Conservation Medicine / Peter Daszak, Andrew A. Cunningham 40 -- 6 Effects of Endocrine Disruptors on Human and Wildlife Health / Theo Colborn 62 -- II. Monitoring Ecological Health -- 7 Monitoring the Health and Conservation of Marine Mammals, Sea Turtles, and Their Ecosystems / A. Alonso Aguirre, Todd M. O'Hara, Terry R. Spraker, David A. Jessup 79 -- 8 Disease Monitoring for the Conservation of Terrestrial Animals / Linda Munson, William B. Karesh 95 -- 9 Emergence of Infectious Diseases in Marine Mammals / Carol House, A. Alonso Aguirre, James A. House 104 -- 10 Viruses as Evolutionary Tools to Monitor Population Dynamics / Mary Poss, Roman Biek, Allen Rodrigo 118 -- 11 Assessing Stress and Population Genetics Through Noninvasive Means / Samuel K. Wasser, Kathleen E. Hunt, Christine M. Clarke 130 -- 12 Animal Behavior as a Tool in Conservation Biology / J. Michael Reed 145 -- III. Ecological Health and Humans -- 13 Global Ecological Change and Human Health / Jonathan A. Patz, Nathan D. Wolfe 167 -- 14 Biodiversity and Human Health / Eric Chivian, Sara Sullivan 182 -- 15 Vector-Borne Infections and Health Related to Landscape Changes / David H. Molyneux 194 -- 16 Ecological Context of Lyme Disease: Biodiversity, Habitat Fragmentation, and Risk of Infection / Richard S. Ostfeld, Felicia Keesing, Eric M. Schauber, Kenneth A. Schmidt 207 -- 17 Zoonotic Infections and Conservation / Thaddeus K. Graczyk 220 -- 18 Chronic Effects of Toxic Microalgae on Finfish, Shellfish, and Human Health / JoAnn M. Burkholder 229 -- IV. Implementing Conservation Medicine -- 19 Ecological Health and Wildlife Disease Management in National Parks / Colin M. Gillin, Gary M. Tabor, A. Alonso Aguirre 253 -- 20 Wildlife Health, Ecosystems, and Rural Livelihoods in Botswana / Michael D. Kock, Gary R. Mullins, Jeremy S. Perkins 265 -- 21 Zoological Parks in Endangered Species Recovery and Conservation / Anthony Allchurch 276 -- 22 The Mountain Gorilla and Conservation Medicine / Michael Cranfield, Lynne Gaffikin, Jonathan Sleeman, Matthew Rooney 282 -- 23 Linking Human and Ecosystem Health on the Amazon Frontier / Tamsyn P. Murray, James J. Kay, David Waltner-Toews, Ernesto F. Raez-Luna 297 -- 24 Deer Tick-Transmitted Zoonoses in the Eastern United States / Sam R. Telford III 310 -- V. Conservation Medicine and Challenges for the Future -- 25 Biodiversity in Biomedical Research / Joshua P. Rosenthal, Trent Preszler 327 -- 26 Introducing Ecosystem Health into Undergraduate Medical Education / David J. Rapport, John Howard, Robert Lannigan, Robert McMurtry, Douglas L. Jones, Christopher M. Anjema, John R. Bend 345 -- 27 Ecotourism: Unforeseen Effects on Health / Mary E. Wilson 361 -- 28 Global Ecological Integrity, Global Change, and Public Health / Colin L. Soskolne, Roberto Bertollini 372 -- 29 Wildlife Health and Environmental Security: New Challenges and Opportunities / Jamie K. Reaser, Edward J. Gentz, Edward E. Clark, Jr. 383. |
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Environmental health.
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Ecology.
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Ecology. (DNLM)D004463
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Environmental Health. (DNLM)D004782
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Environmental Medicine. (DNLM)D019550
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Conservation of Natural Resources. (DNLM)D003247
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Ecology. (OCoLC)fst00901476
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Environmental health. (OCoLC)fst00912999
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Tiergesundheit (DE-588)4411619-6
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Artenschutz (DE-588)4112598-8
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Ökologie (DE-588)4043207-5
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Yulee <Fla., 1999>
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| Added Author |
Aguirre, A. Alonso.
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| ISBN |
9780195150933 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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0195150937 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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