Emerging infectious diseases of wildlife--threats to biodiversity and human health

P Daszak, AA Cunningham, AD Hyatt - science, 2000 - science.org
Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) of free-living wild animals can be classified into three
major groups on the basis of key epizootiological criteria:(i) EIDs associated with “spill-over” …

Social organization and parasite risk in mammals: integrating theory and empirical studies

S Altizer, CL Nunn, PH Thrall… - Annual Review of …, 2003 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Mammals are exposed to a diverse array of parasites and infectious diseases,
many of which affect host survival and reproduction. Species that live in dense populations …

[BOOK][B] Wildlife ecology, conservation, and management

JM Fryxell, ARE Sinclair, G Caughley - 2014 - books.google.com
To understand modern principles of sustainable management and the conservation of
wildlife species requires intimate knowledge about demography, animal behavior, and …

[BOOK][B] The African wild dog: behavior, ecology, and conservation

S Creel, NM Creel - 2002 - books.google.com
With only 5,000 surviving, the African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) is one of the world's most
endangered large carnivores--and one of the most remarkable. This comprehensive portrait …

Pathogen spillover in disease epidemics

AG Power, CE Mitchell - the american naturalist, 2004 - journals.uchicago.edu
In field experiments manipulating generalist pathogens and host community composition,
the presence of a highly susceptible reservoir species drove disease dynamics in multiple …

[BOOK][B] Canids: foxes, wolves, jackals, and dogs: status survey and conservation action plan

C Sillero-Zubiri, M Hoffmann, DW Macdonald - 2004 - researchgate.net
Canids: Foxes, Wolves, Jackals and Dogs Page 1 Canids: Foxes, Wolves, Jackals and
Dogs Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan Status Survey and Conservation Action …

Plight of the bumble bee: pathogen spillover from commercial to wild populations

SR Colla, MC Otterstatter, RJ Gegear… - Biological conservation, 2006 - Elsevier
Pathogen spread or 'spillover'can occur when heavily infected, domestic hosts interact with
closely-related wildlife populations. Commercially-produced bumble bees used in …

[PDF][PDF] Dogs Canis familiaris as carnivores: their role and function in intraguild competition.

AT Vanak, ME Gompper - Mammal review, 2009 - academia.edu
Dogs Canis familiaris are the world's most common carnivore and are known to interact with
wildlife as predators, prey, competitors, and disease reservoirs or vectors. 2. Despite these …

The cross-cutting contribution of the end of neglected tropical diseases to the sustainable development goals

M Bangert, DH Molyneux, SW Lindsay… - Infectious diseases of …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) call for an integrated response, the
kind that has defined Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) efforts in the past decade. NTD …

Free-ranging domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) as predators and prey in rural Zimbabwe: threats of competition and disease to large wild carnivores

JRA Butler, JT du Toit, J Bingham - Biological conservation, 2004 - Elsevier
Domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) arrived in Zimbabwe ca. 1000 years ago. Numbers of free-
ranging dogs have reached unprecedented levels in communal lands (agro-pastoralist rural …