1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459969603321

Titolo

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

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

Electronic books.

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""

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910793421203321

Autore

Wood Peter H. <1943-.>

Titolo

Strange new land : African Americans, 1617-1776 / / Peter H. Wood

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1996

ISBN

0-19-028220-7

0-19-976255-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (125 pages) : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

973/.0496073 s

973/.0496073

Soggetti

African Americans - History - To 1863

Slavery - United States - History

Slavery - History

United States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Juvenile literature

United States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Discusses the lives of Blacks in the American colonies, from the 16th century when slaves were first brought over by the Spanish to the onset of the American Revolution.