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| Acknowledgments | |
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| List of Contributors | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Effects of Ecosystems on Disease | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Effects of Host Diversity on Disease Dynamics | |
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| The Role of Vector Diversity in Disease Dynamics | |
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| Understanding Host-Multipathogen Systems: Modeling the Interaction between Ecology and Immunology | |
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| Influence of Eutrophication on Disease in Aquatic Ecosystems: Patterns, Processes, and Predictions | |
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| Landscape Structure, Disturbance, and Disease Dynamics | |
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| Effects of Disease on Ecosystems | |
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| Effects of Disease on Keystone Species, Dominant Species, and Their Communities | |
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| Red Queen Communities | |
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| Invasion Biology and Parasitic Infections | |
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| Effects of Disease on Community Interactions and Food Web Structure | |
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| Is Infectious Disease Just Another Type of Predator-Prey Interaction? | |
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| Microbial Disease in the Sea: Effects of Viruses on Carbon and Nutrient Cycling | |
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| Effects of Pathogens on Terrestrial Ecosystem Function | |
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| Disease Effects on Landscape and Regional Systems: A Resilience Framework | |
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| Research Frontiers in Ecological Systems: Evaluating the Impacts of Infectious Disease on Ecosystems | |
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| Management and Applications | |
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| The Community Context of Disease Emergence: Could Changes in Predation Be a Key Driver? | |
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| The Emergence of Wildlife Disease and the Application of Ecology | |
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| Applied Biodiversity Science: Managing Emerging Diseases in Agriculture and Linked Natural Systems Using Ecological Principles | |
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| The Ecology of an Infectious Coral Disease in the Florida Keys: From Pathogens to Politics | |
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| Infection and Ecology: Calomys callosus, Machupo Virus, and Acute Hemorrhagic Fever | |
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| Resolved: Emerging Infections of Humans Can Be Controlled by Ecological Interventions | |
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| From Ecological Theory and Knowledge to Application | |
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| Educating about Infectious Disease Ecology | |
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| Concluding Comments: Frontiers in the Ecology of Infectious Diseases | |
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| The Ecology of Infectious Diseases: Progress, Challenges, and Frontiers | |
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| Index | |