Ecological Health and Wildlife Disease Management in National Parks

Submitted by bsiadmin on Mon, 04/07/2008 - 16:59.

Publication Type:

Book Chapter

Authors:

Colin M. Gillin; Gary M. Tabor; A. Alonso Aguirre

Source:

Conservation Medicine: Ecological Health in Practice , Oxford University Press, New York, New York, p.253-264 (2002)

ISBN:

9780195150933

Keywords:

national parks; wildlife health; disease; pollution; recreational overusage; habitat loss; general wildlife health studies

Abstract:

Once considered to be shining examples of pristine nature, national parks and other conservation protected areas are facing increasing threats to their ecological integrity. Habitat fragmentation and degradation, habitat loss, species extinctions, alien species introductions, pollution, and recreational overusage represent some of the cumulative effects that are putting these areas of natural heritage under increasing stress. Long considered a footnote to protected area management, health concerns are gaining greater attention in protected areas as cumulative stresses are enhancing, and sometimes amplifying, conditions for disease and other health effects. In this chapter we discuss the influence of pollution and disease and other health effects on the integrity of parks and protected areas.

Notes:

Found abstract online, the book, Conservation Medicine: Ecological Health in Practice, can be purchased onlineNatureBib ID: 652154