(Ebook) The Biogeography of Host-Parasite Interactions by Serge Morand, Boris R. Krasnov ISBN 9780191576508, 9780199561346, 9780199561353, 0191576506, 0199561346, 0199561354

(Ebook) The Biogeography of Host-Parasite Interactions by Serge Morand, Boris R. Krasnov ISBN 9780191576508, 9780199561346, 9780199561353, 0191576506, 0199561346, 0199561354

Biogeography has renewed its concepts and methods following important recent advances in phylogenetics, macroecology, and geographic information systems. In parallel, the evolutionary ecology of host-parasite interactions has attracted the interests of numerous studies dealing with life-history traits evolution, community ecology, and evolutionary epidemiology. The Biogeography of Host-Parasite Interactions is the first book to integrate these two fields, using examples from a variety of host-parasite associations in various regions, and across both ecological and evolutionary timescales. Besides a strong theoretical component, there is a bias towards applications, specifically in the fields of biogeography, palaeontology, phylogeography, landscape epidemiology, invasion biology, conservation biology, human evolution, and health ecology. A particular emphasis concerns emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases linked to global changes.