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Wildlife Population Health
This textbook introduces the core competencies, tools and perspectives to manage free-ranging animal population health and demonstrates their need...
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Landscapes Supporting Wildlife Health
Wildlife health is frequently considered through bifurcated foci of either disease (through spillover, risk factors, transmission, and mortality) or...
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Wildlife Population Health Strategies
The practice of wildlife population health strives to understand why some populations are healthier than others. It relies on four key strategies to...
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What Is Wildlife Health?
Health, although universally valued, does not have a universally shared definition. How we define a management goal, in this case health, sets the...
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Human Dimensions of Wildlife Health Management
Wildlife health cannot be understood or managed without understanding the people who affect or are affected by a state of wildlife health. Key...
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Causation in Wildlife Population Health
Wildlife population health researchers and practitioners routinely need to confront the question of “what is causing this problem?” There are many...
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Pollution and Wildlife Health
Pollution is a pervasive and growing threat to wildlife health. This chapter discusses two broad groups of pollution, those whose abatement could...
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Participatory Epidemiology and Surveillance for Wildlife Health
The veterinary application of qualitative participatory approaches, also known as participatory epidemiology and participatory surveillance, is well...
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Stakeholder Engagement for Collaborative Wildlife Health Management
By presenting examples of comanagement regimes for natural resources and lessons learned, this chapter highlights why engaging with multiple...
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Wildlife Health Surveillance and Intelligence. Challenges and Opportunities
Surveillance systems must be designed with a clear purpose in mind. There are many impediments to designing and implementing a wildlife health...
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Use of wildlife-friendly structures in residential gardens by animal wildlife: evidence from citizen scientists in a global biodiversity hotspot
Private gardens comprise a large component of greenspace in cities and can offer substantial conservation opportunities. There has been strong...
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Wildlife Health Solutions Depend on Effective Risk Communication
Risk communication is a key tool for wildlife health professionals to engage with society on its role as the ultimate driver of most emerging...
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Inequalities in noise will affect urban wildlife
Understanding how systemic biases influence local ecological communities is essential for develo** just and equitable environmental practices that...
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An Emerging Disease Agenda for Wildlife Health Management
Wildlife has both been the victim and source of emerging infectious diseases throughout history. But the nature of future disease emergence under...
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Urban Bats, Public Health, and Human-Wildlife Conflict
Coexistence of humans and bats in cities requires mitigation of two key sources of human-bat conflict: risk of zoonotic disease transmission and...
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Policy-making for peri-urban landscapes as arenas of human-wildlife interactions
Peri-urban landscapes are transitional areas between urban and rural areas that are constantly changing. They are characterised by land use mixes and...
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Canada’s role in global wildlife trade: Research trends and next steps
North America holds a considerable share of global wildlife trade as both an importer and exporter of live animals and their parts. Wildlife trade is...
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Selective deforestation and exposure of African wildlife to bat-borne viruses
Proposed mechanisms of zoonotic virus spillover often posit that wildlife transmission and amplification precede human outbreaks. Between 2006 and...
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Very few scientific publications and newspaper articles focus on catastrophic events and their effects on urban wildlife
The COVID-19 pandemic upended daily life and disrupted human activity in urban centers all over the world. Stay-at-home orders emptied urban spaces,...
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Working in a Complex, Wicked, and Messy World of Wildlife Health
Wildlife health management is part of a complex system. The decision about the best approach to manage a wildlife health problem in a socially...