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基本説明
Provides the reader with the theoretical framework and empirical tools necessary to design and evalutate studies that effectively address the community ecological context of infectious disease.
Full Description
Many infectious diseases of recent concern, including malaria, cholera, plague, and Lyme disease, have emerged from complex ecological communities, involving multiple hosts and their associated parasites. Several of these diseases appear to be influenced by human impacts on the environment, such as intensive agriculture, clear-cut forestry, and habitat loss and fragmentation; such environmental impacts may affect many species that occur at trophic levels below or above the host community. These observations suggest that the prevalence of both human and wildlife diseases may be altered in unanticipated ways by changes in the structure and composition of ecological communities. Predicting the epidemiological ramifications of such alteration in community composition will require strengthening the current union between community ecology and epidemiology. Disease Ecology highlights exciting advances in theoretical and empirical research towards understanding the importance of community structure in the emergence of infectious diseases.
To date, research on host-parasite systems has tended to explore a limited set of community interactions, such as a community of host species infected by a single parasite species, or a community of parasites infecting a single host. Less effort has been devoted to addressing additional complications, such as multiple-host-multiple-parasite systems, sequential hosts acting on different trophic levels, alternate hosts with spatially varying interactions, effects arising from trophic levels other than those of hosts and parasites, or stochastic effects resulting from small population size in at least one alternate host species. The chapters in this book illustrate aspects of community ecology that influence pathogen transmission rates and disease dynamics in a wide variety of study systems. The innovative studies presented in Disease Ecology 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.
Contents
1. Community Epidemiology ; 2. Extending the principles of community ecology to address the epidemiology of host-pathogen systems ; 3. Community ecology meets epidemiology: the case of Lyme disease ; 4. Microbial community ecology of tick-borne human pathogens ; 5. Disease dynamics in plant communities ; 6. Host selection and its role in transmission of arboviral encephalitides ; 7. Freshwater community interactions and malaria ; 8. The community ecology of Vibrio cholerae ; 9. Food webs and parasites in a salt marsh ecosystem ; 10. Shifting roles of abiotic and biotic regulation of a multi-host parasite following disturbance ; 11. Urbanization and disease in amphibians ; 12. Spatial-temporal dynamics of rabies in ecological communities ; 13. The emergence of Nipah and Hendra virus: pathogen dynamics across a wildlife-livestock-human continuum ; 14. Potential effects of a keystone species on the dynamics of sylvatic plague
