Author: Richard Ostfeld
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: system, complex, ecology, disease, lyme
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2010-11-10
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0195388127
ISBN-13: 9780195388121

Most human diseases come from nature, from pathogens that live and breed in non-human animals and are "accidentally" transmitted to us. Human illness is only the culmination of a complex series of interactions among species in their natural habitats. To avoid exposure to these pathogens, we must understand which species are involved, what regulates their abundance, and how they interact. Lyme disease affects the lives of millions of people in the US, Europe, and Asia. It is the most frequently reported vector-borne disease in the United States; About 20,000 cases have been reported each yea

Authors:Richard S. Ostfeld, Felicia Keesing, Valerie T. Evin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: disease, ecosystems, effects, ecology, infectious
Number of Pages: 504
Published: 2008-02-04
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 069112485X
ISBN-13: 9780691124858

News headlines are forever reporting diseases that take huge tolls on humans, wildlife, domestic animals, and both cultivated and native plants worldwide. These diseases can also completely transform the ecosystems that feed us and provide us with other critical benefits, from flood control to water purification. And yet diseases sometimes serve to maintain the structure and function of the ecosystems on which humans depend. Gathering thirteen essays by forty leading experts who convened at the Cary Conference at the Institute of Ecosystem Studies in 2005, this book develops an integrated fram

Authors:A. Alonso Aguirre, Richard S. Ostfeld, Gary M. Tabor
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: practice, health, ecological, medicine, conservation
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2002-09-26
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0195150937
ISBN-13: 9780195150933

Conservation medicine is an emerging discipline, focussing on the intersection of ecosystem health, animal health, and human health. Work in the biomedical and veterinary sciences is now being folded into conservation biology; to explore the connections between animal and human health; trace the environmental sources of pathogens and pollutants; develop an understanding of the ecological causes of changes in human and animal health; and understand the consequences of diseases to populations and ecological communities. Conservation Medicine defines this new discipline. It examines ecological he

Authors:Steward Pickett, Richard S. Ostfeld, Moshe Shachak, G
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: ecosystems, biodiversity, heterogeneity, conservation, basis, ecological
Number of Pages: 492
Published: 1997-01-31
List price: $199.00
ISBN-10: 0412098512
ISBN-13: 9780412098512

The conservation and management of wild natural resources stands at a crossroads. On the one hand, there are the stunning successes of the focus of species, of which the protection of endangered species is the pinnacle. On the other hand, stands the need for conservation to embrace landscapes and ecosystems, and to be more anticipatory and forward looking, rather than responding to manifest endangerment and acute crisis. These needs are the emerging agenda of conservation ecology. To advance the internal agenda of the science, theories, models, and field studies of populations

Authors:Avi Ostfeld, J. M. Tyson,
Publisher: IWA Publishing (Intl Water Assoc)
Keywords: management, restoration, basin, river
Number of Pages: 104
Published: 2005-02-28
List price: $112.00
ISBN-10: 184339510X
ISBN-13: 9781843395102

This book is the result of two workshops that took place at the 4th IWA World Water Congress: The Restoration of Degraded River Basins and River Basin Management Using Machine Learning. The Restoration of Degraded River Basins set out to share experience in the institutional, policy, and public participation elements of restoration programmes, the ’soft’ issues surrounding restoration of a degraded river basin and the development of the river basin plan. The resulting papers include a number of case studies from a variety of river basins in Israel, South Africa, United Kingdom, Aus

Authors:Nadav Liron, Ervin Ostfeld, Zvi Priel, Yehudah Roth,
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: interactions, mucociliary, mucus, cilia
Number of Pages: 616
Published: 1998-02-01
List price: $309.95
ISBN-10: 0824701380
ISBN-13: 9780824701383

Written by nearly 60 of the world’s leading investigators in this rapidly expanding field, this state-of-the-art reference furnishes detailed presentations on the basic science and clinical aspects of cilia, mucus, and mucociliary interactions. Providing stimulating coverage of the latest information in a single source, Cilia, Mucus, and Mucociliary Interactions discusses the genetic determinants of mucociliary system structure and function explains ciliary wave activity in cell-cell communication elucidates many of the key physiological processes in ciliary regulation reveals pos

Authors:Richard Dutton, Alison Gail Findlay, Richard L. Wils
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Keywords: patronage, religion, region, shakespeare, lancastrian
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2004-05-07
List price: $33.00
ISBN-10: 0719063698
ISBN-13: 9780719063695

This groundbreaking book uses the possibility that Shakespeare began his theatrical career in Lancashire to open up a range of new contexts for reading the plays, and introduces readers to the non-metropolitan theater spaces which formed a vital part of early modern dramatic activity. Essays give a detailed picture of the contexts in which the apprentice dramatist would have worked, providing new insights into regional performance, touring theatre, the patronage of the Earls of Derby, and the purpose-built theater at Prescot.