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Why Study Wildlife Diseases ι

Human Health 2

Domestic Animal Health 3

Wildlife Health 4

Select Definitions and Concepts 6

Health and Disease 6

Parasitism 6

Diseases in Populations 9

Density and Disease 10

Disease Models ιι

Causes of Disease 12

Role of Diseases in Wildlife Populations 13

Can Diseases Regulate Wild Populations? 15

Overview and Summary 17

Literature Cited 18

The study of wildlife diseases encompasses the health, disease, and fitness of wildlife, and the broad range of factors that can potentially affect their well-being.

These factors include a wide array of infectious organisms such as helminths, arthropods, and microorganisms, as well as toxins, traumas, metabolic dysfunc­tions, genetic problems, and habitat fragmen­tation. Such factors not only act individually, but also may interact synergistically in complex ways to affect wildlife health. In this first chap­ter we give a brief summary of the basis for the emergence of wildlife diseases as a discipline and provide some key general concepts used throughout this text.

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Source: Botzler Richard G., Brown Richard N.. Foundations of Wildlife Diseases. University of California Press,2014. — 458 p.. 2014
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