Conservation Medicine: Ecological Health in Practice

Table of contents

• Conservation Medicine *
• Title Page *
• Foreword - Giant Moths and Doing No Harm vii
• Preface xi
• Acknowledgments xiii
• Contents xv
• Contributors xix
• Part I - Ecological Health and Change 1
• 1 - Introduction 3
• 2 - Defining Conservation Medicine 8
• References *
• 3 - The Birth of Another Crisis Discipline 17
• References 26
• 4 - Biodiversity, Climate Change, and Emerging Infectious Diseases 27
• References *
• 5 - A Key Role for Conservation Medicine 40
• References *
• 6 - Effects of Endocrine Disruptors on Human and Wildlife Health 62
• References *
• Part II - Monitoring Ecological Health 77
• 7 - Monitoring the Health and Conservation of Marine Mammals, Sea Turtles, and Their Ecosystems 79
• References 91
• 8 - Disease Monitoring for the Conservation of Terrestrial Animals 95
• References *
• 9 - Emergence of Infectious Diseases in Marine Mammals 104
• References *
• 10 - Viruses as Evolutionary Tools to Monitor Population Dynamics 118
• References *
• 11 - Assessing Stress and Population Genetics Through Noninvasive Means 130
• References *
• 12 - Animal Behavior as a Tool in Conservation Biology 145
• References *
• Part III - Ecological Health and Humans 165
• 13 - Global Ecological Change and Human Health 167
• References *
• 14 - Biodiversityand Human Health 182
• References *
• 15 - Vector-Borne Infections and Health Related to Landscape Changes 194
• References *
• 16 - Biodiversity, Habitat Fragmentation, and Risk of Infection 207
• References *
• 17 - Zoonotic Infections and Conservation 220
• References *
• 18 - Chronic Effects of Toxic Microalgae on Finfish, Shellfish, and Human Health 229
• References *
• Part IV - Implementing Conservation Medicine 251
• 19 - Ecological Health and Wildlife Disease Management in National Parks 253
• References *
• 20 - Wildlife Health, Ecosystems, and Rural Livelihoods in Botswana 265
• References *
• 21 - Zoological Parks in Endangered Species Recovery and Conservation 276
• References *
• 22 - The Mountain Gorilla and Conservation Medicine 282
• References *
• 23 - Linking Human and Ecosystem Health on the Amazon Frontier 297
• References *
• 24 - Deer Tick—transmitted Zoonoses in the Eastern United States 310
• References *
• Part V - Conservation Medicineand Challenges for the Future 325
• 25 - Biodiversity in Biomedical Research 327
• Appendix 25.1 - Tax Identified in Abstracts of Nih-Funded Projects in 1995, 1996, and 1997 *
• References *
• 26 - Introducing Ecosystem Health into Undergraduate Medical Education 345
• References *
• 27 - Unforeseen Effects on Health 361
• References *
• 28 - Global Ecological Integrity, Global Change, and Public Health 372
• References 381
• 29 - New Challenges and Opportunities 383
• References *
• Index 397

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