Protecting animals, ecosystems and biodiversity is one of the big challenges of our time. With climate change dramatically impacting the planet and transformations in society such as housing ...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction and Background -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 What This Book Is Not About ...

Ecosystems are highly intricate networks of interrelationships between organisms and their environment. With the help of increasingly sophisticated computers and statistical approaches, mathematical ...

Biological communities are rarely stable. Their composition is constantly changing, depending on the environmental conditions in the respective ecosystems—and sometimes this change is so vast that ...

Wildlife populations serve as primary reservoirs for many emerging and endemic infectious agents, yet surveillance of pathogens in natural systems remains ...