The Connections Between Ecology and Infectious Disease

Chapter 1: Interkingdom Community Interactions in Disease Ecology

Authors: M. Eric Benbow, Jennifer L. Pechal, Jeffery K. Tomberlin, and Heather R. Jordan

Chapter 2: Biodiversity and Disease Transmission

Author: Serge Morand

Part II: The Ecology of Infectious Diseases Affecting Humans

Chapter 3: Understanding and Estimating the Risk of Waterborne Infectious Disease Associated with Drinking Water

Author: Christon J. Hurst

Chapter 4: The Ecology of Bacterial Agents of Foodborne Illness

        Authors: Alexander Gill and John W. Austin

Chapter 5: Impact of Mycobacterial Biofilms on Public Health

Author: Anil K. Ojha

Part III: The Ecology of Infectious Diseases Affecting Livestock and Wildlife

Chapter 6: Opportunistic Bacteria Associated with Mammalian Livestock Disease

Author: Christon J. Hurst

Chapter 7: Infectious Disease in Wild Animal Populations: examining transmission and control with mathematical models

Authors: Sergey S. Berg, James D. Forester, and Meggan E. Craft

Chapter 8: The Ecology of Pathogen Spillover and Disease Emergence at the Human - Wildlife - Environment Interface

Authors: Kathleen A. Alexander, Colin J. Carlson, Bryan L. Lewis, Wayne M. Getz, Madhav V. Marathe, Stephen G. Eubank, Claire E. Sanderson, and Jason K. Blackburn

Chapter 9: Integrating Landscape Hierarchies in the Discovery and Modeling of Ecological Drivers of Zoonotically Transmitted Disease from Wildlife

Authors: Douglas G. Goodin, Colleen B. Jonsson, Linda J. S. Allen, and Robert D. Owen