Disease ecology and the global emergence of zoonotic pathogens

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 263-272

  Wilcox, Bruce A ^a   Gubler, Duane J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Complexity; Ecology; Ecosystem change; Emerging diseases; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECOLOGY; EPIDEMIC; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS; HOST; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; LAND USE; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PATHOGENESIS; POPULATION; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; THEORY; WAR; ZOONOSIS;

EID: 19544384989     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: 13474715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1265/ehpm.10.263     Document Type: Review

References (58)

1. Institute of Medicine. Microbial threats to health: emergence, detection, and response. Smolinski MS, Hamburg MA, Lederberg J editors. Washington, DC: National Academy Press; 2003.
2. Meyer WB, Turner BL. Changes in Land Use and Land Cover: A Global Perspective. Cambridge University Press; 1994.
3. Vitousek PM, Mooney HA, et al. Human domination of earth's ecosystems. Science. 1997;277:494-499.
4. Golley F. A History of the Ecosystem Concept in Ecology. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press; 1993.
5. Keller DB, Golley FB. The Philosophy of Ecology, from Science to Synthesis. Athens: University of Georgia Press; 2000.
6. Levin SA. Fragile Dominion: Complexity and the Commons. Perseus Books Group; 1999.
7. Levin BR, Lipsitch M, et al. Population biology, evolution, and infectious disease: convergence and synthesis. Science. 1999;283:806-809.
8. Gunderson LH, Holling CS editors. Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Systems of Humans and Nature. Washington DC: Island Press; 2002.
9. Morse SS. Factors in the emergence of infectious diseases. Emerg Infect Dis. 1995;1:7-15.
10. Gubler DJ. Resurgent vector-borne diseases as a global health problem. Emerg Infect Dis. 1998;4:442-450.
11. Daszak P, Cunningham AA, Hyatt AD. Emerging infectious diseases of wildlife - threats to biodiversity and human health. Science. 2000;287:443-449.
12. Patz J, Graczyk TK, Geller N, Yittor AY. Effects of environmental change on emerging parasitic diseases. Int J Parasitol. 2000;30:1395-1405.
13. Patz J, Daszak P, Tabor GM, Aguirre AA, Pearl M, Epstein J, et al. Unhealthy landscapes: policy recommendations on land use change and infectious disease emergence. Env Health Persp. 2004;112:1092-1097.
14. De Kruif P. Microbe Hunters. Harcourt, Brace and Co.; 1926.
15. Oldstone MBA. Viruses, Plagues & History. Oxford University Press; 1998.
16. Ross R. An application of theory of probabilities to the study of an a priori pathometry, number I. Proc R Soc A. 1916;92:204-230.
17. Anderson RM, May RM. Infectious Diseases of Humans. Dynamics and Control. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 1991.
18. Gubler DJ. Prevention and control of tropical diseases in the 21st century: back to the field. Am J Tr Med Hygiene. 2001;65:1.
19. Stearns SC editor. Evolution in Health and Disease. Oxford University Press; 1999.
20. Frank SA. The immunology and evolution of infectious disease. Princeton University Press; 2002.
21. Holling CS. The resilience of terrestrial ecosystems: Local surprise and global change. In: Clark WC, Munn RE editors. Sustainable Development of the Biosphere. Cambridge Press, Syndicate of the University of Cambridge; 1986. p. 292-397.
22. Holling CS. Cross-scale morphology, geometry, and dynamics of ecosystems. Ecol Monographs. 1992;62:447-502.
23. Gunderson LH, Holling CS, Light SS editors. Barriers and Bridges to the Renewal of Ecosystems and Institutions. New York: Columbia University Press; 1995.
24. Berry BLJ. Urbanization. In: Turner BL II, Clark WC, Kates RW, Richards JF, Mathews JT, Meyer WB editors. The Earth as Transformed by Human Action: Global and Regional Changes in the Biosphere over the Past 300 Years. Cambridge, University Press; 1990. p. 103-119.
25. Clark WC, Kates RW, et al. editors. The Earth as Transformed by Human Action. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 1990.
26. Anderson RM, May RM. Population biology of infectious diseases: part I. Nature. 1979;280:361-367.
27. May RM, Anderson RM. Population biology of infectious diseases: part II. Nature. 1979;280:455-461.
28. Black FL. Measles endemicity in insular populations: critical community size and its evolutionary implication. J Theor Biol. 1966;11:207-211.
29. Anderson RM. Population Ecology of Infection Disease Agents. Theoretical Ecology: Principles and Applications. 1981. p. 318-355.
30. Gubler DJ. Aedes egypti and Aedes egypti-borne disease control in the 1990s: top down or bottom up. Am J Trop Med Hygiene. 1989;40:571-578.
31. Schrag, SJ, Wiener P. Emerging infectious disease: what are the relative roles of ecology and evolution. Trends Ecol Evol. 1995;10:319-324.
32. Horwitz P, Wilcox BA. Parasites, ecosystems and sustainability: some notes on nested interdependencies. Intl J Parasitol. 2005;35:725-732.
33. May RM. Theoretical Ecology: Principles and Applications. Sinauer Associates. 1981.
34. Diamond JM. Assembly of species communities. In: Cody ML, Diamond JM editors. Ecology and Evolution of Communities. 1975. p. 342-344.
35. Diamond JM, May RM. Island biogeography and the design of nature reserves. In: May RM editor. Theoretical Ecology: Principles and Applications. Sinauer Associates; 1981. p. 228-252.
36. Rosenzwieg ML. Species Diversity in Space and Time. Cambridge University Press; 1995.
37. Wilcox BA. Insular ecology and conservation. In: Soulé ME, Wilcox BA editors. Conservation Biology: An Evolutionary-Ecological Perspective. 1980. p. 95-117.
38. Wilcox BA, Murphy DD. Conservation strategy: The effects of fragmentation on extinction. Am Nat. 1985;125:879-887.
39. Ferraz G, Russell GJ, et al. Rates of species loss from Amazonian forest fragments. PNAS. 2003;100:14069-14073.
40. Laurance WF, Laurance SG, et al. Biomass collapse in Amazonian forest fragments. Science. 1997;278:1117-1118.
41. Terborgh J, Lopez L, et al. Ecological meltdown in predator-free forest fragments. Science. 2001;294:1923-1926.
42. Prenter J, MacNeil C, Dick JTA, Dunn AM. Roles of parasites in animal invasions. Tr Ecol Evol. 2004;19:385-390.
43. Diamond JM. Normal extinctions of isolated populations. In: Nitecki MH editor. Extinctions. University of Chicago Press; 1984.
44. Wilcox BA. Supersaturated island faunas: A species-age relationship for lizards on post-Pleistocene land bridge Islands in the Gulf of California. Science. 1978;199:996-998.
45. National Research Council. Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change and Committee on Global Change Research. Human dimensions of global environmental change: research pathways for the next decade. Washington, DC: National Academy Press; 1999.
46. Aron JL, Patz JA. Ecosystem Change and Public Health: A Global Perspective. Johns Hopkins University Press; 2001.
47. Checkland P. Systems Thinking, Systems Practice. Wiley; 1981.
48. Gunderson LH. Adaptive dancing: Interactions between social resilience and ecological crises. In: Berkes F, Colding J, Folke C editors. Navigating Social-Ecological Systems: Building Resilience for Complexity and Change. Cambridge University Press; 2002. p. 33-52.
49. McNeil WH. Plagues and Peoples. New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday; 1976.
50. McMichael T. Human Frontiers, Environments and Disease. Cambridge University Press; 2001.
51. Hughes JM. Emerging infectious diseases: a CDC perspective. Emerg Infect Dis. 2001;7(3 Suppl):494-496.
52. Cuaron AD. A global perspective on habitat disturbance and tropical rainforest mammals. Con Biol. 2000;14:1574-1579.
53. Dangles O, Malmqvist B. Species richness-decomposition relationships depend on species dominance. Eco Let. 2004;7:395-402.
54. Lawton JH, May RM editors. Extinction Rates. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press; 1995.
55. Matson PA, Parton WJ, Power AG, Swift MJ. Agricultural intensification and ecosystem properties. Science. 1997;277:504-509.
56. Power AG, Flecker AS. In: Orians GH, Dirzo R, Cushman JH editors. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Processes in Tropical Forests. New York: Springer-Verlag; 1996. p. 173-194.
57. Institute of Medicine. Emerging infections: Microbial threats to health in the United States. Lederberg J, Shope RE, Oaks SC Jr editors. Washington, DC: National Academy Press; 1992.
58. Somerville MA, Rapport DJ. Transdisciplinarity: Recreating Integrated Knowledge. McGill-Queen's University Press; 2003.