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  title info:
    title: Disease Ecology
    sub title: Galapagos Birds and their Parasites
  name:
    name part: Parker, Patricia G.
    role:
      role term: editor.
    role:
      role term: edt
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 330 p. 56 illus., 43 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book provides the first collection of chapters written by scientists who have contributed to the understanding of disease ecology in the Galapagos Islands, an iconic and historic natural site. The Galapagos Archipelago straddles the equator in the eastern Pacific Ocean, almost 1000 km off the coast of Ecuador, and includes 13 major islands, numerous smaller satellite islands, and many more even smaller islets. The wildlife on the Galapagos Islands today represents one of the best-preserved wild communities of plants and animals in the world, owing to the location of the islands at the intersection of major ocean currents, the commitment by Ecuador for the vast majority of the area to be left undeveloped, and the protection provided by the Galapagos National Park. Most of the animal species in Galapagos are endemic, occurring nowhere else. But they are descendants of ancestors that colonized earlier, and then, isolated from their mainland origins, evolved into forms that are recognized as distinct today. Since 2001, many of the authors in this book have been part of a four-institution partnership investigating the threats posed by pathogens to Galapagos avifauna. We approach the topic of disease ecology in a novel manner, starting with the history of arrival of both the birds themselves and the pathogens. This synthetic approach requires the integration of themes from veterinary medicine, epidemiology, population genetics, and phylogenetics.
  table of contents: 1 Introduction and Overview, Patricia Parker -- Part I Colonization of Islands by Hosts and Parasites -- 2 Colonization of Galápagos birds - identifying the closest relative and estimating colonization, Eloisa H.R. Sari and Jennifer Bollmer.- 3 Colonization of Parasites and Vectors, Arnaud Bataille, Iris I. Levin and Eloisa H.R. Sari.- Part II Island Syndromes.- 4 Genetic Diversity in Endemic Galapagos Birds: Patterns and Implications, Jennifer L. Bollmer and Benjamin D. Nims.- 5 From the vagile to the sedentary: disease implications and new host relationships on islands, David Duffy and F. Hernan Vargas.- Part III Host-Switching.- 6 Host-Switching: How it starts, Maricruz Jaramillo and Jose Luis Rivera-Parra.- 7 New host-parasite relationships by host-switching, Diego Santiago Alarcon and Jane Merkel.- Part IV The Spread of Pathogens.- 8 Movement among Islands by Host, Vector, or Parasite, Iris I. Levin and Arnaud Bataille.- 9 Invasion of an avian nest parasite, Philornis downsi, to the Galapagos Islands: colonization history, adaptations to novel ecosystems, and conservation challenges, Birgit Fessl, George E. Heimpel, Charlotte E. Causton.- Part V Challenges for Management.- 10 Domestic and Peridomestic Animals in Galapagos: Health Policies and Practices, Luis Padilla, Nicole Gottdenker, Sharon Deem, Marilyn Cruz.- 11 Filling the Gaps: Improving Sampling and Analysis of Disease Surveillance Data in Galápagos, Kathryn P. Huyvaert.- 12 Collaboration and Politics of Conservation, Patricia G. Parker, R. Eric Miller, Simon J. Goodman.
  note: edited by Patricia G. Parker.
  subject:
    topic: Biodiversity
  subject:
    topic: Conservation biology
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Ecosystems
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary biology
  subject:
    topic: Biodiversity
  subject:
    topic: Conservation Biology/Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Ecosystems
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary Biology
  classification: QH541.15.B56
  classification: 577
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Social and Ecological Interactions in the Galapagos Islands
  identifier: 9783319659091
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65909-1
  record info:
    record creation date: 171027
    record change date: 20191029022629.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-65909-1