Overview on the Health and Disease Ecology of Wild Lemurs: Conservation Implications
Overview on the Health and Disease Ecology of Wild Lemurs: Conservation Implications
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野生狐猴的健康和疾病生态学概述：保护意义
DOI：
10.1007/978-0-387-34586-4_20
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发表时间：
2006
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
R. Junge
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作者：
R. Junge
The significance of health and disease on the preservation and management of endangered species has been recognized for many years (Scott, 1988; Thorne and Williams, 1988; Gilmartin et al., 1993; Lafferty and Gerber, 2002). The discipline of conservation medicine involves documenting, evaluating, monitoring, modifying, and/or preventing the impact of disease on wildlife. It also includes the study of the multiple two-way interactions between health and disease on the one hand and species and ecosystems on the other (Tabor, 2002). In large stable populations, disease is a normal part of population dynamics. However, when populations are extremely small or fragmented, stochastic events such as disease outbreaks and epizootics may have catastrophic effects. In some cases, veterinary intervention during a disease outbreak is essential to prevent extinction of the population (Thorne and Williams, 1988). The monitoring of occurrence and spread of disease is also a sensitive indicator of a change in the ecology of a species, often secondary to human intervention (Daszak, et al., 2000).
