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 healthecology. A particular emphasis concerns emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases linked to global changes.
Preface; INTRODUCTION; PART I HISTORICAL BIOGEOGRAPHY; Beyond vicariance: integrating taxon pulses, ecological fitting and oscillation in evolution and historical biogeography; Palaeogeography of parasites; Phylogeography and historical biogeography of obligate specific mutualisms; Biogeography, humans and their parasites; The use of co-phylogeographic patterns to predict the nature of host-parasite interactions, and vice versa; PART II ECOLOGICAL BIOGEOGRAPHY AND MACROECOLOGY; Marine parasite diversity and environmental gradients; Parasite diversity and latitudinal gradients in terrestrial mammals; Ecological properties of a parasite: species-specific stability and geographical variation; Similarity and variability in parasite assemblages across geographical space; Gap analysis and the geographical variation in our knowledge of parasites; PART III GEOGRAPHY OF INTERACTIVE POPULATIONS; In the hosts footsteps? Ecological niche modeling and its utility in predicting parasite distributions; The geography of defence; Evolutionary landscape epidemiology; PART IV INVASION, INSULARITY, AND INTERACTIONS; The geography of host and parasite invasions; Immune defence and invasion; Infection, immunity, and island adaptation in birds; PART V APPLIED BIOGEOGRAPHY; The geography and ecology of pathogen emergence; When geography of health meets health ecology; CONCLUSION AND PERSPECTIVES; Index;
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