Description
This book introduces the latest thinking in an exciting new field in biology: disease ecology. The authors assembled represent the most diverse collection of experts ever appearing together in one book on the subject. Both graduate students and readers from outside the field will find it exceptionally useful. It will be the source. -- Peter Kareiva, Nature Conservancy This book provides the most comprehensive treatment of the ecology of infectious diseases that has appeared in the last decade. To have so many examples and so much top-notch scholarship in the same volume is extraordinarily useful. -- Michael F. Antolin, Colorado State University
About the Author
Richard S. Ostfeld is senior scientist at the Institute of Ecosystem Studies. Felicia Keesing is associate professor of biology at Bard College. Valerie T. Eviner is assistant professor of plant sciences at the University of California, Davis.
Reviews
"One exciting aspect of this book is that 'ecologists' and 'epidemiologists' and 'microbiologists' and 'botanists' and various other scholars were brought together to share ideas, data, and inferences. This volume reflects such interdisciplinary exchange, and more interactions like this are sorely needed... It is highly recommended as a useful set of readings for ecologists interested in disease-causing microbes, and for epidemiologists seeking understanding of the ecosystem interactions that affect infectious agent transmission."--Mark L. Wilson, Ecology "Infectious Disease Ecology provides new and useful insights that expand upon earlier works in the field."--Gregory E. Glass, BioScience "[T]his is an enormously useful book which, for the first time, brings together a wide range of disciplinary expertise under the umbrella of a comprehensive, integrated approach towards understanding the interrelationship between disease and ecology... This book is tremendously recommendable. It provides comprehensive cutting edge insights into the fascinating interplay of the proximate and ultimate forces that shape the host-pathogen race... It will be the standard for some time to come."--Holger Schutkowski, Journal of Archaeological Science "Overall, the book is quite strong, and offers useful and thorough overviews, a difference from the usual reworks and overviews that pervade edited volumes--in this sense, the editors are to be congratulated... [T]his book is a useful picture of the state of the field, and could be a basis for graduate-level seminars treating the field of disease ecology."--A. Townsend Peterson, Quarterly Review of Biology
Book Information
ISBN 9780691124858
Author Richard S. Ostfeld
Format Paperback
Page Count 520
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publisher Princeton University Press
Weight(grams) 709g