The biogeography of host-parasite interactions [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Serge Morand, Boris R. Krasnov

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785277803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-73073-8; 9786612730733; 0-19-157650-6
• Descrizione fisica: 288 p
• Altri autori (Persone): MorandS; KrasnovBoris R. <1950->
• Disciplina: 577.857
• Soggetti: Host-parasite relationships; Biogeography
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Contributors""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I: Historical Biogeography""; ""1 Beyond vicariance: integrating taxon pulses, ecological fitting, and oscillation in evolution and historical biogeography""; ""2 Palaeogeography of parasites""; ""3 Phylogeography and historical biogeography of obligate specific mutualisms""; ""4 Biogeography, humans, and their parasites""; ""5 The use of co-phylogeographic patterns to predict the nature of host-parasite interactions, and vice versa""; ""Part II: Ecological Biogeography and Macroecology""; ""6 Marine parasite diversity and environmental gradients""""7 Parasite diversity and latitudinal gradients in terrestrial mammals""; ""8 Ecological properties of a parasite: species-specific stability and geographical variation""; ""9 Similarity and variability of parasite assemblages across geographical space""; ""10 Gap analysis and the geographical distribution of parasites""; ""Part III: Geography of Interactive Populations""; ""11 In the hosts'' footsteps? Ecological niche modelling and its utility in predicting parasite distributions""; ""12 The geography of defence""; ""13 Evolutionary landscape epidemiology""""Part IV: Invasion, ; Insularity, and Interactions""; ""14 The geography of host and parasite invasions""; ""15 Immune defence and invasion""; ""16 Infection, immunity, and island adaptation in birds""; ""Part V: Applied Biogeography""; ""17 The geography and ecology of pathogen emergence""; ""18 When geography of health meets health ecology""; ""Conclusion""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""
• Sommario/riassunto: "Biogeography has renewed its concepts and methods following important recent advances in phylogenetics, macroecology, and geographic Information systems. In parallel, the evolutionary ecology of most-parasite interactions has attracted the interest 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." "This accessible text is intended for graduate students, professional researchers, and practitioners in the fields of evolutionary ecology, parasitology, biogeography, and conservation biology, as well as a broader audience from geography, epidemiology, and veterinary medicine"--BOOK JACKET---