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Edition: 1
Release: 2012-06-08
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0199731470
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB
New Directions in Conservation Medicine pdf
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In recent years, species and ecosystems have been threatened by many anthropogenic factors manifested in local and global declines of populations and species. Although we consider conservation medicine an emerging field, the concept is the result of the long evolution of transdisciplinary thinking within the health and ecological sciences and the better understanding of the complexity within these various fields of knowledge. Conservation medicine was born from the cross fertilization of ideas generated by this new transdisciplinary design. It examines the links among changes in climate, habitat quality, and land use; emergence and re-emergence of infectious agents, parasites and environmental contaminants; and maintenance of biodiversity and ecosystem functions as they sustain the health of plant and animal communities including humans.
During the past ten years, new tools and institutional initiatives for assessing and monitoring ecological health concerns have emerged: lands Download New Directions in Conservation Medicine for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve
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