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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100199561354

ISBN-139780199561353

eBay Product ID (ePID)84536537

Product Key Features

Number of Pages288 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameBiogeography of Host-Parasite Interactions

Publication Year2010

SubjectParasitology, Earth Sciences / Geography, General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaNature, Science, Medical

AuthorBoris R. Krasnov

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight22.7 Oz

Item Length9.7 in

Item Width7.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2010-929118

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition22

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal577.857

Table Of ContentPrefaceIntroductionPart I: Historical Biogeography1. Beyond vicariance: integrating taxon pulses, ecological fitting and oscillation in evolution and historical biogeography2. Palaeogeography of parasites3. Phylogeography and historical biogeography of obligate specific mutualisms4. Biogeography, humans and their parasites5. The use of co-phylogeographic patterns to predict the nature of host-parasite interactions, and vice versaPart II: Ecological Biogeography and Macroecology6. Marine parasite diversity and environmental gradients7. Parasite diversity and latitudinal gradients in terrestrial mammals8. Ecological properties of a parasite: species-specific stability and geographical variation9. Similarity and variability in parasite assemblages across geographical space10. Gap analysis and the geographical variation in our knowledge of parasitesPart III: Geography of Interactive Populations11. In the hosts' footsteps? Ecological niche modeling and its utility in predicting parasite distributions12. The geography of defence13. Evolutionary landscape epidemiologyPart IV: Invasion, Insularity, and Interactions14. The geography of host and parasite invasions15. Immune defence and invasion16. Infection, immunity, and island adaptation in birdsPart V: Applied Biogeography17. The geography and ecology of pathogen emergence18. When geography of health meets health ecologyConclusion and PerspectivesIndex

SynopsisBiogeography has renewed its concepts and methods following important recent advances in phylogenetics, macroecology, and geographic information systems. In parallel, the evolutionary ecology of host-parasite interactions has attracted the interests of numerous studies dealing with life-history traits evolution, community ecology, and evolutionary epidemiology. The Biogeography of Host-Parasite Interactions is the first book to integrate these two fields, using examples from a variety of host-parasite associations in various regions, and across both ecological and evolutionary timescales. Besides a strong theoretical component, there is a bias towards applications, specifically in the fields of historical biogeography, palaeontology, phylogeography, landscape epidemiology, invasion biology, conservation biology, human evolution, and health ecology. A particular emphasis concerns emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases linked to global changes., Biogeography has renewed its concepts and methods following important recent advances in phylogenetics, macroecology, and geographic information systems. In parallel, the evolutionary ecology of host-parasite interactions has attracted the interests of numerous studies dealing with life-history traits evolution, community ecology, and evolutionary epidemiology. The Biogeography of Host-Parasite Interactions is the first book to integrate these two fields, using examples from a variety of host-parasite associations in various regions, and across both ecological and evolutionary timescales. Besides a strong theoretical component, there is a bias towards applications, specifically in the fields of biogeography, palaeontology, phylogeography, landscape epidemiology, invasion biology, conservation biology, human evolution, and health ecology. A particular emphasis concerns emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases linked to global changes., This edited volume demonstrates how the latest developments in biogeography (for example in phylogenetics, macroecology, and geographic information systems) can be applied to studies in the evolutionary ecology of host-parasite interactions in order to integrate spatial patterns with ecological theory.

LC Classification NumberQL757