Provides wildlife professionals with cutting-edge scientific information on the most damaging and newly emerging wildlife diseases.
Wildlife diseases and their implications are at the forefront of many sectors of scientific endeavor, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nearly 60 percent of all human diseases and 75 percent of all emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic. Edited by pioneering wildlife veterinarians David A. Jessup and Robin W. Radcliffe, Wildlife Disease and Health in Conservation explores the origins and impacts of as well as the responses to the most damaging and persistent diseases currently threatening wildlife conservation.
Focusing mainly on newer, invasive, and controversial wildlife health challenges, this book also reexamines classic diseases that provide warnings and important lessons for wildlife professionals and policy makers. Each chapter offers cutting-edge scientific information and extensive references to help readers plan for, respond to, and conduct research on these serious health challenges. This book:
• Reports crucial findings on newly emerging diseases and how to recognize and manage them • Explores the health of critical but often neglected aquatic ecosystems, including both vertebrate and invertebrate examples • Covers a vast diversity of wildlife health threats, from epizootic bighorn sheep pneumonia and African swine fever to sea star wasting disease, avian influenza, and rabbit hemorrhagic disease • Explains zoonotic dangers to humans, including coronaviruses
• Includes information on marine and aquatic species, wild ungulate species, carnivores and omnivores, birds, and more • Provides insight into the social, legal, financial, and political factors that may override or influence conservation priorities in response to biomedical challenges
Featuring detailed and attractive field notes–style illustrations by Laura Donohue and essential essays from experts in the field, Wildlife Disease and Health in Conservation combines theory and practice to inform and inspire wildlife health and conservation.
Edited by:
David A. Jessup,
Robin W. Radcliffe
Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 254mm,
Width: 178mm,
Spine: 34mm
Weight: 1.520kg
ISBN: 9781421446745
ISBN 10: 142144674X
Series: Wildlife Management and Conservation
Pages: 496
Publication Date: 10 July 2023
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Sponsors and Supporting Organizations Introduction: David A. Jessup, by David A. Jessup Part I: Wildlife Disease/Health in Marine and Aquatic Species 1. Coral Reef Ecosystem Health, by Thierry M. Work 2. Sea Star Wasting Disease, by Joseph K. Gaydos 3. Wild Fisheries: One Health Challenges Affecting Us All, by ESP Weber III and O. Rozanski 4. Ranavirosis and Chytridiomycosis: Impacts of Amphibian Species, by Debra L. Miller, E. Davis Carter, Rebecca Hardman, and Matthew J. Gray 5. Oil Spills and Their Management, by Michael Ziccardi 6. Prescriptions for Reducing Ocean Pollution and Saving Southern Sea Otters, by David A. Jessup and Melissa A. Miller Part II: Wildlife Disease/Health in Wild Ungulates 7. Great Plagues: Rinderpest, Peste des Petits Ruminants, Measles and Distemper, by Richard A. Kock 8. Chronic Wasting Disease, by Michael W. Miller and Lisa L. Wolfe 9. Epizootic Bighorn Sheep Pneumonias, by Thomas E. Besser and E. Frances Cassirer 10. Bovine Brucellosis in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, by Bant Schumacker 11. Bluetongue, EHD and Cervid Adenoviral Hemorrhagic Disease, by Mark L. Ruder and Sonja J. Christensen 12. African Swine Fever, by Vienna Brown, Julianna Lenoch, and Courtney Bowden Part III: Wildlife Disease/Health in Carnivores, Rodents, and/or Bats 13. Plague and Distemper in Prairie Dogs and Black Footed Ferrets, by Toni E. Rocke 14. Rabies and Conservation, by Thomas Muller and Charles E. Rupprecht 15. Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease, by J. Jeffrey Root and Tom Gidlewski 16. White-nose Syndrome, by Michelle L. Verant and Riley Bernard Part IV: Wildlife Disease/Health in Avian Species 17. Waterfowl Diseases: Catalyst for Wildlife Health in North America, by David A. Jessup 18. Avian Influenza in Wild Birds, by Andrew M. Ramey 19. Avian Malaria and the Extinction of Hawaiian Forest Birds, by Carter T. Atkinson 20. Lead Intoxication in Raptors and Scavenging Birds, by Michelle Hawkins, Krystal M.T. Woo, and Katherine Carr 21. Gyrfalcons as Sentinels for Changing Disease Ecology in the Arctic, by Robin W. Radcliffe and Michael T. Henderson Part V: Wildlife Diseases Crossing Species and Geographic Barriers 22. Tuberculosis in Free-ranging Wild Animals, by Michele A. Miller 23. Toxoplasmosis and One Health, by Elizabeth Van Wormer and Karen Shapiro 24. Endangered Mountain Gorillas, Ebola and Community Health, by Kirsten Gilardi 25. Emerging Coronaviruses: A One Health Harbinger, by Christine K. Johnson, Janna Freeman, Tierra Smiley Evans, Diego Montecito, and Marcela Uhart Conclusion
David A. Jessup (ROYAL OAKS, CA) is the former senior wildlife veterinarian of the California Department of Fish and Game and the former executive manager of the Wildlife Disease Association. Robin W. Radcliffe (BROOKTONDALE, NY) is a wildlife veterinarian. He is the author of the children's book The Hornless Rhinoceros and founder of a learning program with Dr. Jane Goodall that trains the next generation of conservation leaders at Cornell University.
Reviews for Wildlife Disease and Health in Conservation
[Wildlife Disease and Health in Conservation] includes original hand drawn illustrations in black and white and color and a number of photographs. This detailed and technical book will be of interest to veterinarians, animal health policy makers, wildlife conservation experts, and university students interested in wildlife diseases. —Conservation Biology
