PRINCIPLES OF WILDLIFE DISEASES

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Examines the general principles of how wildlife diseases emerge, evolve, and spread. Explores the relationships between human society, environmental change, and wildlife disease. Emphasizes how global environmental change (e.g. climate change, land use change, globalization of travel and trade) affect disease dynamics and cross-species transmission. Covers disease examples of North American mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians.