Libri: "Determinants and dynamics of infectious diseases"

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Ma, Zhien, Yicang Zhou e Jianhong Wu. Modeling and dynamics of infectious diseases. A cura di ebrary Inc. Beijing: Higher Education Press, 2009.

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Anderson, Roy M. Infectious diseases of humans: Dynamics and control. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.

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Stefan, Ma, e Xia Yingcun, a cura di. Mathematical Understanding of Infectious Disease Dynamics. Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific Pub Co, 2009.

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Stefan, Ma, e Xia Yingcun, a cura di. Mathematical understanding of infectious disease dynamics. Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific Pub Co, 2009.

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Chen, Dongmei, Bernard Moulin e Jianhong Wu, a cura di. Analyzing and Modeling Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Infectious Diseases. Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118630013.

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Busenberg, Stavros N. Vertically transmitted diseases: Models and dynamics. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1993.

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Apostolopoulos, Yiorgos, Sevil F. So nmez e Mu zehner So nmez. Population mobility and infectious disease. New York, NY: Springer, 2010.

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Casman, Elizabeth A. The contextual determinants of malaria. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2002.

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Dieckmann, Ulf, Johan A. J. Metz, Maurice W. Sabelis e Karl Sigmund, a cura di. Adaptive Dynamics of Infectious Diseases. Cambridge University Press, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511525728.

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Ma, Zhien, Yicang Zhou e Jianhong Wu. Modeling and Dynamics of Infectious Diseases. CO-PUBLISHED WITH HIGHER EDUCATION PRESS, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/7223.

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Ma, Zhien, Jianhong Wu e Yicang Zhou. Modeling and Dynamics of Infectious Diseases. World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 2009.

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Sleigh, Adrian C., Chee Heng Leng, Brenda SA Yeoh, Phua Kai Hong e Rachel Safman. Population Dynamics and Infectious Diseases in Asia. WORLD SCIENTIFIC, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/6132.

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(Editor), Adrian C. Sleigh, Chee Heng Lang (Editor), Brenda S. A. Yeoh (Editor), Phua Kai Hong (Editor) e Rachel Safman (Editor), a cura di. Population Dynamics and Infectious Diseases in Asia. World Scientific Publishing, 2006.

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Anderson, Roy M. Population Dynamics of Infectious Diseases: Theory and Applications. Springer London, Limited, 2013.

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May, Robert M., B. Anderson e Roy M. Anderson. Infectious Diseases of Humans: Dynamics and Control (Oxford Science Publications). Oxford University Press, USA, 1992.

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Hsü, Li. Epitope mapping and characterization of the glycoprotein of infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus. 1990.

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Moulin, Bernard, Jianhong Wu e Dongmei Chen. Analyzing and Modeling Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Infectious Diseases. Wiley & Sons, Limited, John, 2015.

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Adaptive Dynamics of Infectious Diseases: In Pursuit of Virulence Management. Cambridge University Press, 2002.

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Moulin, Bernard, Jianhong Wu e Dongmei Chen. Analyzing and Modeling Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Infectious Diseases. Wiley & Sons, Limited, John, 2015.

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Moulin, Bernard, Jianhong Wu e Dongmei Chen. Analyzing and Modeling Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Infectious Diseases. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2014.

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Moulin, Bernard, Jianhong Wu e Dongmei Chen. Analyzing and Modeling Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Infectious Diseases. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2014.

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Dieckmann, Ulf, Johan A. J. Metz, Karl Sigmund e Maurice W. Sabelis. Adaptive Dynamics of Infectious Diseases: In Pursuit of Virulence Management. Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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Moulin, Bernard, Jianhong Wu e Dongmei Chen. Analyzing and Modeling Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Infectious Diseases. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2014.

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Moulin, Bernard, Jianhong Wu e Dongmei Chen. Analyzing and Modeling Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Infectious Diseases. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2014.

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Dieckmann, Ulf, Johan A. J. Metz, Karl Sigmund e Maurice W. Sabelis. Adaptive Dynamics of Infectious Diseases: In Pursuit of Virulence Management. Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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(Editor), Ulf Dieckmann, Johan A. J. Metz (Editor), Maurice W. Sabelis (Editor) e Karl Sigmund (Editor), a cura di. Adaptive Dynamics of Infectious Diseases: In Pursuit of Virulence Management (Cambridge Studies in Adaptive Dynamics). Cambridge University Press, 2005.

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Medicine, Institute of, Board on Global Health, Forum on Microbial Threats, Eileen R. Choffnes e Alison Mack. Influence of Global Environmental Change on Infectious Disease Dynamics: Workshop Summary. National Academies Press, 2014.

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Medicine, Institute of, Board on Global Health, Forum on Microbial Threats, Eileen R. Choffnes e Alison Mack. Influence of Global Environmental Change on Infectious Disease Dynamics: Workshop Summary. National Academies Press, 2014.

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Medicine, Institute of, Board on Global Health, Forum on Microbial Threats, Eileen R. Choffnes e Alison Mack. Influence of Global Environmental Change on Infectious Disease Dynamics: Workshop Summary. National Academies Press, 2014.

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Medicine, Institute of, Board on Global Health, Forum on Microbial Threats, Eileen R. Choffnes e Alison Mack. Influence of Global Environmental Change on Infectious Disease Dynamics: Workshop Summary. National Academies Press, 2014.

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Casman, Professor Elizabeth, Professor Hadi Dowlatabadi, Elizabeth A. Casman e Hadi Professor Dowlatabadi. Contextual Determinants of Malaria. Routledge, 2010.

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Roche, Benjamin, Hélène Broutin e Frédéric Simard. Afterword II Fundamental knowledge in the evolutionary ecology of infectious diseases. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198789833.003.0022.

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In Part II, the main academic knowledge gathered to date on the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases with relevance for infectious diseases control in low-income countries has been reviewed. We have seen that many pathogens affecting human populations rely strongly on environmental determinants, such as climate, water, abiotic characteristics and inter-specific relationships, among other factors. This is especially important for low-income countries that are mostly located in tropical areas and, therefore, are exposed to high variability in terms of climatic conditions in environments ranging from the deep evergreen equatorial forests to arid deserts....

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Viboud, Cécile, Hélène Broutin e Gerardo Chowell. Spatial-temporal transmission dynamics and control of infectious diseases: Ebola virus disease (EVD) as a case study. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198789833.003.0004.

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Disentangling the spatial-temporal dynamics of infectious disease transmission is important to address issues of disease persistence, epidemic growth and optimal control. In this chapter, we review key concepts relating to the spatial-temporal dynamics of infectious diseases in meta-populations, whereby geographically separate subpopulations are connected by migration or mobility rates. We review the dynamics of colonization, persistence and extinction of emerging and recurrent pathogens in meta-populations; the role of demographic and environmental factors; and geographic heterogeneity in epidemic growth rate. We illustrate theoretical concepts by reviewing the spatial dynamics of childhood diseases and other acute infections in low- and middle-income countries, and provide a detailed description of the spatial-temporal dynamics of the 2014–16 Ebola epidemic in West Africa. We further discuss how increased availability of empirical data and recent methodological developments provide a deeper mechanistic understanding of transmission processes in space and time, and make recommendations for future work.

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Letki, Natalia, Malgorzata Kossowska, Tomasz Zaleskiewicz e Szymon Wichary. Human Behaviour in Pandemics: Social and Psychological Determinants in a Global Health Crisis. Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

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Letki, Natalia, Malgorzata Kossowska, Tomasz Zaleskiewicz e Szymon Wichary. Human Behaviour in Pandemics: Social and Psychological Determinants in a Global Health Crisis. Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

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Letki, Natalia, Malgorzata Kossowska, Tomasz Zaleskiewicz e Szymon Wichary. Human Behaviour in Pandemics: Social and Psychological Determinants in a Global Health Crisis. Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

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An Unnatural History Of Emerging Infections. Oxford University Press, 2013.

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Foufopoulos, Johannes, Gary A. Wobeser e Hamish McCallum. Infectious Disease Ecology and Conservation. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199583508.001.0001.

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Emerging infectious diseases pose an increasingly serious threat to a number of endangered or sensitive species. Despite the significant impact of pathogens on conservation, no single book has yet integrated the theoretical principles underlying disease transmission with the practical health considerations for helping wildlife professionals and conservation biologists to manage disease outbreaks and conserve biodiversity. This novel and accessible textbook starts with a foundational section focusing on the role of pathogens in natural ecosystems, the dynamics of transmission in different environments, and the factors driving wildlife disease outbreaks. It then moves on to far more applied issues concerned with the acquisition of field data including sampling, experimental design, and analysis, as well as diagnostic analyses in both the laboratory and field. Guidelines for effective modeling and data analysis follow, before a final section is devoted to disease prevention and control including the prevention of novel outbreaks, the use of diseases as biocontrol agents, and the associated issues of ethics, public communication, and outreach.

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Owen, Jennifer C., Dana M. Hawley e Kathryn P. Huyvaert, a cura di. Infectious Disease Ecology of Wild Birds. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198746249.001.0001.

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Disease ecology is an interdisciplinary field that recognizes that the host–parasite interaction is shaped by the environment and can affect and be affected by the processes that occur across all levels of ecological organization. This book focuses on the dynamics of infectious diseases for wild avian hosts across different scales of biological organization—from within-host processes to landscape-level patterns. Parasite–bird interactions are both influenced by and have consequences for every level of ecological hierarchy, from the physiology, behavior, and evolution of individual hosts up to the complex biotic and abiotic interactions occurring within biological communities and ecosystems. As the most diverse group of extant vertebrates, birds have evolved to utilize every ecological niche on earth, giving them the capacity to serve as a host of pathogens in every part of the world. The diversity of birds is outmatched only by the diversity of the parasite fauna infecting them. Given the overwhelming diversity of both avian hosts and their parasites, we have only scratched the surface regarding the role that pathogens play in avian biology and the role that birds play in the maintenance and spread of zoonotic pathogens. In addition to this understudied diversity, parasite–bird interactions are increasingly occurring in rapidly changing global environments—thus, their ecology is changing—and this shapes the complex ways by which parasites influence the interconnected health of birds, humans, and shared ecosystems. The chapters in this book illustrate that the understanding of these complex and multiscale interactions requires an inherently integrative approach.

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Alejano-Steele, AnnJanette, a cura di. Women and Health. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216036708.

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This volume on global women's health provides a broad overview of many conditions that impact women's health, including social and economic inequities and examples of health advocacy. The health and wellbeing of the world's population matters, but many of the female half experience unequal access to information and care that increases their health risks. This global women's health volume delves into a number of health and social factors that combine to create a lower quality of life for women. Each chapter represents a global region, featuring three to four countries, and reviews health goals and outcomes relative to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and World Health Organization discussions on social determinants of health. Chapters are organized to invite readers to consider environmental conditions and social determinants that create gender inequities in health around the globe. Cultural forces that impact health, including environmental risks; access to health care; reproductive health; infectious and noncommunicable diseases; behavioral/mental health; and intersectional identity considerations such as religion, ethnicity, and LGBTQ identity issues.

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Yongue, Julia. A distinctive nation: vaccine policy and production in Japan. Manchester University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526110886.003.0009.

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Factors such as climate and geography were important determinants of the types vaccines selected for use and the prevalence of certain infectious diseases in Japan. However, as shown in this chapter, there is strong evidence that preventive vaccination policies that were strongly influenced by foreign health authorities, changing societal expectations, pressure from special interest groups, and new scientific discoveries played as an important, if not a more significant role in the formation of Japan’s approach to immunisation and vaccine production. By delineating the principal features and influences on the development of Japan’s vaccine policies and production using a wide range of illustrations, the writer argues that Japan’s approach differed markedly from the ones adopted by the health authorities in other nations. This distinctiveness stems from Japan’s unique history of disease, policies and institutions, whose centerpiece is the Preventative Vaccination Law (PVL) introduced in 1947 during the Allied occupation (1945-52). This chapter will trace these influences—both past and present—on Japan’s vaccination policies in order to shed light on its unique approach to immunisation and production.

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Roche, Benjamin, Hélène Broutin e Frédéric Simard. Afterword IV Case studies. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198789833.003.0024.

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Through malaria elimination in Italy at the end of 19th century (when the epidemiological situation could be seen as similar to the one present in low-income countries today) and control strategies against Buruli ulcer and schistosomiasis in Africa, we have shown examples demonstrating that the translation of evolutionary ecology knowledge to infectious diseases control in low-income countries can be successful. These successes have reached different stages, from increasing our understanding of the whole infectious system dynamics toward implementation of innovative control strategies in the short term (Buruli ulcer), to improving transmission control by reducing abundance of host population (schistosomiasis in Senegal), as well as ensuring complete disease elimination locally, through a combination of massive reduction of vector populations at key periods and human-population protection and education (malaria in Italy)....

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Schmid-Hempel, Paul. Evolutionary Parasitology. 2^a ed. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198832140.001.0001.

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Parasites are ubiquitous and shape almost every aspect of their hosts, including physiology, behaviour, life histories, the structure of the microbiota, and entire communities. Hence, parasitism is one of the most potent forces in nature and, without parasites, the world would look very different. The book gives an overview over the parasite groups and the diversity of defences that hosts have evolved, such as immune systems. Principles of evolutionary biology and ecology analyse major elements of host–parasite interactions, including virulence, infection processes, tolerance, resistance, specificity, memory, polymorphisms, within-host dynamics, diseases spaces, and many other aspects. Genetics is always one of the key elements in these topics. Modelling, furthermore, can predict best strategies for host and parasites. Similarly, the spread of an infectious disease in epidemiology combines with molecular data and genomics. Furthermore, parasites have evolved ways to overcome defences and to manipulate their hosts. Hosts and parasites, therefore, continuously co-evolve, with changes sometimes occurring very rapidly, and sometimes requiring geological times. Many infectious diseases of humans have emerged from a zoonotic origin, in processes governed by the basic principles discussed in the different sections. Hence, this book integrates different fields to study the diversity of host–parasite processes and phenomena. It summarizes the essential topics for the study of evolutionary parasitology and will be useful for a broad audience.

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Smallman-Raynor, Matthew, e Andrew Cliff. War Epidemics. Oxford University Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198233640.001.0001.

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Down the ages, war epidemics have decimated the fighting strength of armies, caused the suspension and cancellation of military operations, and have brought havoc to the civil populations of belligerent and non-belligerent states alike. This book examines the historical occurrence and geographical spread of infectious diseases in association with past wars. It addresses an intrinsically geographical question: how are the spatial dynamics of epidemics influenced by military operations and the directives of war? The term historical geography in the title indicates the authors' primary concern with qualitative analyses of archival source materials over a 150-year time period from 1850, and this is combined with quantitative analyses less frequently associated with historical studies.

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Zaitchik, Benjamin F. Climate and Health across Africa. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.555.

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Humans have understood the importance of climate to human health since ancient times. In some cases, the connections appear to be obvious: a flood can cause drownings, a drought can lead to crop failure and hunger, and temperature extremes pose a risk of exposure. In other cases, the connections are veiled by complex or unobserved processes, such that the influence of climate on a disease epidemic or a conflict can be difficult to diagnose. In reality, however, all climate impacts on health are mediated by some combination of natural and human dynamics that cause individuals or populations to be vulnerable to the effects of a variable or changing climate.Understanding and managing negative health impacts of climate is a global challenge. The challenge is greater in regions with high poverty and weak institutions, however, and Africa is a continent where the health burden of climate is particularly acute. Observed climate variability in the modern era has been associated with widespread food insecurity, significant epidemics of infectious disease, and loss of life and livelihoods to climate extremes. Anthropogenic climate change is a further stress that has the potential to increase malnutrition, alter the distribution of diseases, and bring more frequent hydrological and temperature extremes to many regions across the continent.Skillful early warning systems and informed climate change adaptation strategies have the potential to enhance resilience to short-term climate variability and to buffer against negative impacts of climate change. But effective warnings and projections require both scientific and institutional capacity to address complex processes that are mediated by physical, ecological, and societal systems. Here the state of understanding climate impacts on health in Africa is summarized through a selective review that focuses on food security, infectious disease, and extreme events. The potential to apply scientific understanding to early warning and climate change projection is also considered.

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Hameed, Saji N. The Indian Ocean Dipole. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.619.

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Discovered at the very end of the 20th century, the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) is a mode of natural climate variability that arises out of coupled ocean–atmosphere interaction in the Indian Ocean. It is associated with some of the largest changes of ocean–atmosphere state over the equatorial Indian Ocean on interannual time scales. IOD variability is prominent during the boreal summer and fall seasons, with its maximum intensity developing at the end of the boreal-fall season. Between the peaks of its negative and positive phases, IOD manifests a markedly zonal see-saw in anomalous sea surface temperature (SST) and rainfall—leading, in its positive phase, to a pronounced cooling of the eastern equatorial Indian Ocean, and a moderate warming of the western and central equatorial Indian Ocean; this is accompanied by deficit rainfall over the eastern Indian Ocean and surplus rainfall over the western Indian Ocean. Changes in midtropospheric heating accompanying the rainfall anomalies drive wind anomalies that anomalously lift the thermocline in the equatorial eastern Indian Ocean and anomalously deepen them in the central Indian Ocean. The thermocline anomalies further modulate coastal and open-ocean upwelling, thereby influencing biological productivity and fish catches across the Indian Ocean. The hydrometeorological anomalies that accompany IOD exacerbate forest fires in Indonesia and Australia and bring floods and infectious diseases to equatorial East Africa. The coupled ocean–atmosphere instability that is responsible for generating and sustaining IOD develops on a mean state that is strongly modulated by the seasonal cycle of the Austral-Asian monsoon; this setting gives the IOD its unique character and dynamics, including a strong phase-lock to the seasonal cycle. While IOD operates independently of the El Niño and Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the proximity between the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and the existence of oceanic and atmospheric pathways, facilitate mutual interactions between these tropical climate modes.

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May, Robert, e Angela R. McLean, a cura di. Theoretical Ecology. Oxford University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199209989.001.0001.

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Robert May's seminal book has played a central role in the development of ecological science. Originally published in 1976, this influential text has overseen the transition of ecology from an observational and descriptive subject to one with a solid conceptual core. Indeed, it is a testament to its influence that a great deal of the novel material presented in the earlier editions has now been incorporated into standard undergraduate textbooks. It is now a quarter of a century since the publication of the second edition, and a thorough revision is timely. Theoretical Ecology provides a succinct, up-to-date overview of the field set in the context of applications, thereby bridging the traditional division of theory and practice. It describes the recent advances in our understanding of how interacting populations of plants and animals change over time and space, in response to natural or human-created disturbance. In an integrated way, initial chapters give an account of the basic principles governing the structure, function, and temporal and spatial dynamics of populations and communities of plants and animals. Later chapters outline applications of these ideas to practical issues including fisheries, infectious diseases, tomorrow's food supplies, climate change, and conservation biology. Throughout the book, emphasis is placed on questions which as yet remain unanswered. The editors have invited the top scientists in the field to collaborate with the next generation of theoretical ecologists. The result is an accessible, advanced textbook suitable for senior undergraduate and graduate level students as well as researchers in the fields of ecology, mathematical biology, environmental and resources management. It will also be of interest to the general reader seeking a better understanding of a range of global environmental problems.

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