The Biogeography of Host-Parasite Interactions

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The Biogeography of Host-Parasite Interactions​

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Description

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 historical 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.​

Details​

288 pages; 60 b/w illus.
ISBN13: 978-0-19-956134-6
ISBN10: 0-19-956134-6
Edited by Serge Morand and Boris R. Krasnov
2010​

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