Infectious disease and contaminants in urban wildlife: Unseen and often overlooked threats

Urban Wildlife Conservation: Theory and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 175-215

  Riley, Seth P D ^a   Serieys, Laurel E K ^b   Moriarty, Joanne G ^a  

^a NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease; Emerging infectious disease; Endocrine disruptors; Host pathogen ecology contaminants; Insecticide; Rodenticide; Spillover; Synergistic effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929670509     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-7500-3_10     Document Type: Chapter

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