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Infectious Disease Ecology : Effects of Ecosystems on Disease and of Disease on Ecosystems /

News headlines are forever reporting diseases that take huge tolls on humans, wildlife, domestic animals, and both cultivated and native plants worldwide. These diseases can also completely transform the ecosystems that feed us and provide us with other critical benefits, from flood control to water...

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Other Authors: Eviner, Valerie T., Keesing, Felicia, Ostfeld, Richard S., 1954-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:News headlines are forever reporting diseases that take huge tolls on humans, wildlife, domestic animals, and both cultivated and native plants worldwide. These diseases can also completely transform the ecosystems that feed us and provide us with other critical benefits, from flood control to water purification. And yet diseases sometimes serve to maintain the structure and function of the ecosystems on which humans depend. Gathering thirteen essays by forty leading experts who convened at the Cary Conference at the Institute of Ecosystem Studies in 2005, this book develops an inte.
Physical Description:1 online resource (504 pages): illustrations, maps
ISBN:9781400837885