Foreword: Planet Doctors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Part One: Conservation Medicine: Ecological Health in Practice
1. Conservation Medicine: Ontogeny of an Emerging Discipline
A. Alonso Aguirre, Gary M. Tabor, and Richard S. Ostfeld
2. Ecohealth: Connecting Ecology, Health, and Sustainability
Bruce A. Wilcox, A. Alonso Aguirre, and Pierre Horwitz
3. One Health, One Medicine
Laura H. Kahn, Thomas P. Monath, Bob H. Bokma, E. Paul Gibbs, and
A. Alonso Aguirre
4. Biodiversity and Human Health
Aaron Bernstein
5. An Ecosystem Service of Biodiversity: The Protection of Human
Health Against Infectious Disease
Felicia Keesing and Richard S. Ostfeld
6. Parasite Conservation, Conservation Medicine and Ecosystem
Health
Andres Gomez, Elizabeth S. Nichols, and Susan L. Perkins
7. Stress and Immunosuppression as Factors in the Decline and
Extinction of Wildlife Populations: Concepts, Evidence, and
Challenges
Heribert Hofer and Marion L. East
Part Two: Anthropogenic Change and Conservation Medicine
8. Climate Change and Infectious Disease Dynamics
Raina K. Plowright, Paul C. Cross, Gary M. Tabor, Emily Almberg,
Leslie Bienen, and Peter J. Hudson
9. Wildlife Health in a Changing North: A Model for Global
Environmental Change
Morten Tryland, Susan Kutz, and Patricia Curry
10. Habitat Fragmentation and Infectious Disease Ecology
Gerardo Suzan, Fernando Esponda, Roberto Carrasco-Hernandez, and A.
Alonso Aguirre
11. Wildlife Trade and the Spread of Disease
Katherine F. Smith, Lisa M. Schloegel, and Gail E. Rosen
12. Bushmeat and Infectious Disease Emergence
Matt hew LeBreton, Brian L. Pike, Karen E. Saylors, Joseph Le Doux
Diffo, Joseph N. Fair, Anne W. Rimoin, Nancy Ortiz, Cyrille F.
Djoko, Ubald Tamoufe, and Nathan D. Wolfe
13. Human Migration, Border Controls, and Infectious Disease
Emergence
Anne M. Alexander, David C. Finnoff , and Jason F. Shogren
Part Three: Emerging Infectious Diseases and Conservation
Medicine
14. Are Bats Exceptional Viral Reservoirs?
Kevin J. Olival, Jonathan H. Epstein, Lin-Fa Wang, Hume E. Field,
and Peter Daszak
15. SARS: A Case Study for Factors Driving Disease Emergence
Wolfgang Preiser
16. H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza: Breaking the Rules in
Disease Emergence
Thijs Kuiken and Timm Harder
17. Bartonellosis: An Emerging Disease of Humans, Domestic Animals,
and Wildlife
Ricardo G. Maggi, Craig A. Harms, and Edward B. Breitschwerdt
18. Brucella ceti and Brucella pinnipedialis Infections in Marine
Mammals
Jacques Godfroid, Ingebjørg Helena Nymo, Morten Tryland, Axel
Cloeckaert, Thierry Jauniaux, Adrian M. Whatmore, Edgardo Moreno,
and Geoffrey Foster
19. Infectious Cancers in Wildlife
Hamish McCallum and Menna Jones
20. From Protozoan Infection in Monarch Butterflies to Colony
Collapse Disorder in Bees: Are Emerging Infectious Diseases
Proliferating in the Insect World?
Rebecca Bartel and Sonia Altizer
21. Fungal Diseases in Neotropical Forests Disturbed by Humans
Julieta Benitez-Malvido
22. Emerging Infectious Diseases in Fisheries and Aquaculture
E. Scott Philip Weber III
23. Southern Sea Otters as Sentinels for Land-Sea Pathogens and
Pollutants
David A. Jessup and Melissa A. Miller
Part Four: Ecotoxicology and Conservation Medicine
24. Ecotoxicology: Bridging Wildlife, Humans, and Ecosystems
Jeffrey M. Levengood and Val R. Beasley
25. Wildlife Toxicology: Environmental Contaminants and Their
National and International Regulation
K. Christiana Grim, Anne Fairbrother, and Barnett A. Rattner
26. Marine Biotoxins: Emergence of Harmful Algal Blooms as Health
Threats to Marine Wildlife
Spencer E. Fire and Frances M. Van Dolah
27. Beluga from the St. Lawrence Estuary: A Case Study of Cancer
and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
Daniel Martineau
Part Five: Place-Based Conservation Medicine
28. Sense and Serendipity: Conservation and Management of Bison in
Canada
Margo J. Pybus and Todd K. Shury
29. Pathogens, Parks, and People: The Role of Bovine Tuberculosis
in South African Conservation
Claire Geoghegan
30. Disease Ecology and Conservation of Ungulates, Wild Rabbits,
and the Iberian Lynx in the Mediterranean Forest
Fernando Martinez, Guillermo Lopez, and Christian Gortazar
31. The Kibale EcoHealth Project: Exploring Connections Among Human
Health, Animal Health, and Landscape Dynamics in Western Uganda
Tony L. Goldberg, Sarah B. Paige, and Colin A. Chapman
32. Conservation Medicine in Brazil: Case Studies of Ecological
Health in Practice
Paulo Rogerio Mangini, Rodrigo Silva Pinto Jorge, Marcelo Renan de
Deus Santos, Claudia Filoni, Carlos Eduardo da Silva Verona,
Alessandra Nava, Maria Fernanda Vianna Marvulo, and Jean Carlos
Ramos Silva
33. Linking Conservation of Biodiversity and Culture with
Sustainable Health and Wellness: Th e Itzamma Model and Global
Implications for Healing Across Cultures
Todd J. Pesek, Victor Cal, Kevin Knight, and John Arnason
34. Biological Diversity and Human Health: Using Plants and
Traditional Ethnomedical Knowledge to Improve Public Health and
Conservation Programs in Micronesia
Michael J. Balick, Katherine Herrera, Francisca Sohl, Wayne Law,
Roberta A. Lee, and William C. Raynor
Part Six: Applied Techniques of Conservation Medicine
35. Human Health in the Biodiversity Hotspots: Applications of
Geographic Information System Technology and Implications for
Conservation
Larry J. Gorenflo
36. Determining When Parasites of Amphibians Are Conservation
Threats to their Hosts: Methods and Perspectives
Trenton W. J. Garner, Cheryl J. Briggs, Jon Bielby, and Matthew C.
Fisher
37. Strategies for Wildlife Disease Surveillance
Jonathan M. Sleeman, Christopher J. Brand, and Scott D. Wright
38. Wildlife Health Monitoring Systems in North America: From
Sentinel Species to Public Policy
Michelle M. Willette, Julia B. Ponder, Dave L. McRuer, and Edward
E. Clark, Jr.
39. Epidemiologic Investigation of Infectious Pathogens in Marine
Mammals: The Importance of Serum Banks and Statistical Analysis
A. Alonso Aguirre, Melinda K. Rostal, B. Zimmerman, and Thomas J.
Keefe
40. Sorta Situ : The New Reality of Management Conditions for
Wildlife Populations in the Absence of "Wild" Spaces
Barbara A. Wolfe, Roberto F. Aguilar, A. Alonso Aguirre, Glenn H.
Olsen, and Evan S Blumer
41. Modeling Population Viability and Extinction Risk in the
Presence of Parasitism
Patrick Foley and Janet E. Foley
42. Using Mathematical Models in a Unifi ed Approach to Predicting
the Next Emerging Infectious Disease
Tiffany L. Bogich, Kevin J. Olival, Parviez R. Hosseini, Carlos
Zambrana-Torrelio, Elizabeth Loh, Sebastian Funk, Ilana L. Brito,
Jonathan H. Epstein, John S. Brownstein, Damien O. Joly, Marc A.
Levy, Kate E. Jones,
Stephen S. Morse, A. Alonso Aguirre, William B. Karesh, Jonna A. K.
Mazet, and Peter Daszak
Index
Alonso Aguirre is Executive Director of the Smithsonian-Mason
Global Conservation Studies Program based at Smithsonian
Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, and Associate
Professor at the Department of Environmental Science and Policy in
George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. He cofounded the
emerging discipline of Conservation Medicine and has over 20 years
of experience in conservation of biodiversity wildlife medicine and
management in over 23
countries.
Rick Ostfeld is Senior Scientist and Animal Ecologist at the Cary
Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, New York.
Peter Daszak is President of EcoHealth Alliance (formerly Wildlife
Trust). He is a leader in the field of conservation medicine and a
respected disease ecologist.
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