News headlines are forever reporting diseases that take huge tolls on humans, wildlife, domestic animals, and both cultivated and native plants worldwide. These

Emerging infectious diseases pose an increasingly serious threat to a number of endangered or sensitive species and are increasingly recognized as one of the ma

This book summarizes current advances in our understanding of how infectious disease represents an ecological interaction between a pathogenic microorganism and

A combination of ecology and epidemiology in natural, unmanaged, animal and plant populations.

Summary: The chapters in this book llustrate aspects of communityy ecology that influence pathogen transmission rates and disease dynamics in a wide variety of