By Serge Morand

Biogeography has renewed its options and strategies following very important fresh advances in phylogenetics, macroecology, and geographic info platforms. In parallel, the evolutionary ecology of host-parasite interactions has attracted the pursuits of diverse reviews facing life-history qualities evolution, neighborhood ecology, and evolutionary epidemiology. The Biogeography of Host-Parasite Interactions is the 1st booklet to combine those fields, utilizing examples from quite a few host-parasite institutions in a number of areas, and throughout either ecological and evolutionary timescales. along with a powerful theoretical part, there's a bias in the direction of functions, particularly within the fields of biogeography, palaeontology, phylogeography, panorama epidemiology, invasion biology, conservation biology, human evolution, and wellbeing and fitness ecology. a specific emphasis matters rising and re-emerging infectious ailments associated with worldwide alterations.

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Integrative and Comparative Biology, 42, 953–59. D. (2006). Leishmaniasis in ancient Egypt and Upper Nubia. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 12, 1616–17. 1 Historical perspective Evolutionary processes usually take place in a dynamic geographical context (Schaal and Olsen 2000; Whittaker et al. 2005; Diniz Filho et al. 2008). As a consequence, patterns of genetic variation are typically strongly structured in space and time (Hewitt 2001). Thanks to the recent development of multiple types of molecular markers, genetic information has been analysed in numerous organisms in order to disentangle processes occurring at the intra-specific level.

Equally important to understanding parasite evolution on long and short scales are ecological considerations. Climate change is arguably the most pressing ecological (and societal) issue of this century. Undoubtedly our planet is undergoing dramatic ecological changes, including habitat loss and fragmentation, species loss, invasions, and homogenization. Yet, the determination of change and causality in ecosystems is difficult, both philosophically and practically, and these difficulties increase with the scale and complexity of ecosystems.

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