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Lyme disease : the ecology of a complex system
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ISBN: 9780195388121 Year: 2011 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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Small-mammal herbivores in a patchy environment : Individual strategies and population responses

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Infectious disease ecology : the effects of ecosystems on disease and of disease on ecosystems
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ISBN: 9780691124841 0691124841 9780691124858 069112485X Year: 2008 Publisher: Princeton (N.J.): Princeton university press,

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Lyme disease : the ecology of a complex system
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ISBN: 0199889104 1282775936 9786612775932 0199780854 9780199780853 Year: 2010 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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Most human diseases come from nature, from pathogens that live and breed in non-human animals and are ""accidentally"" transmitted to us. Human illness is only the culmination of a complex series of interactions among species in their natural habitats. To avoid exposure to these pathogens, we must understand which species are involved, what regulates their abundance, and how they interact. Lyme disease affects the lives of millions of people in the US, Europe, and Asia. It is the most frequently reported vector-borne disease in the United States; About 20,000 cases have been reported each year

The ecological basis of conservation: heterogeneity, ecosystems, and biodiversity
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ISBN: 0412098512 1461377501 1461560039 Year: 1997 Publisher: New York Chapmann & Hall

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From its inception, the U.S. Department of the Interior has been charged with a conflicting mission. One set of statutes demands that the department must develop America's lands, that it get our trees, water, oil, and minerals out into the marketplace. Yet an opposing set of laws orders us to conserve these same resources, to preserve them for the long term and to consider the noncommodity values of our public landscape. That dichotomy, between rapid exploitation and long-term protection, demands what I see as the most significant policy departure of my tenure in office: the use of science-interdisciplinary science-as the primary basis for land management decisions. For more than a century, that has not been the case. Instead, we have managed this dichotomy by compartmentalizing the American landscape. Congress and my predecessors handled resource conflicts by drawing enclosures: "We'll create a national park here," they said, "and we'll put a wildlife refuge over there." Simple enough, as far as protection goes. And outside those protected areas, the message was equally simplistic: "Y'all come and get it. Have at it." The nature and the pace of the resource extraction was not at issue; if you could find it, it was yours.

Infectious disease ecology : the effects of ecosystems on disease and of disease on ecosystems
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ISBN: 128296500X 9786612965005 140083788X 9781400837885 9780691124841 0691124841 9780691124858 069112485X 9781282965003 6612965002 Year: 2008 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,

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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.


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New directions in conservation medicine : applied cases of ecological health
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ISBN: 1280595515 9786613625342 0199909059 9780199909056 9780199731473 0199731470 Year: 2012 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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In recent years, species and ecosystems have been threatened by many anthropogenic factors manifested in local and global declines of populations and species. Although we consider conservation medicine an emerging field, the concept is the result of the long evolution of transdisciplinary thinking within the health and ecological sciences and the better understanding of the complexity within these various fields of knowledge. Conservation medicine was born from the cross fertilization of ideas generated by this new transdisciplinary design. It examines the links among changes in climate, habit


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Conservation biology and the health sciences

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The earthworms (Oligochaeta : Lumbricidae and Megascolecidae) of Dutchess county, New York, USA
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Infectious Disease Ecology : Effects of Ecosystems on Disease and of Disease on Ecosystems
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ISBN: 9781400837885 9780691124858 Year: 2010 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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