The Biogeography of Host-Parasite Interactions

Biogeography has renewed its concepts and methods following important recent advances in phylogenetics, macroecology, and geographic information systems. In parallel, the evolutionary ecology of host-parasite interactions has attracted the interests of numerous studies dealing with life-history traits evolution, community ecology, and evolutionary epidemiology. The Biogeography of Host-Parasite Interactionsis the first book to integrate these two fields, using examples from a variety of host-parasite associations in various regions, and across both ecological and evolutionary timescales. Besides a strong theoretical component, there is a bias towards applications, specifically in the fields of biogeography, palaeontology, phylogeography, landscape epidemiology, invasion biology, conservation biology, human evolution, and health ecology. A particular emphasis concerns emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases linked to global changes.

Serge Morand is an evolutionary ecologist who received his PhD at the University of Rennes (Brittany, France) and now works as a CNRS scientist in the "Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution" at the University of Montpellier 2 and at the CIRAD in the unit "Animal et Gestion Integree du Risque". He is author or co-author of more the 250 publications and 5 edited books.

Boris Krasnov was born in Moscow (former USSR) and graduated from Moscow State University in 1978. He received his PhD from Moscow State University in 1986 and worked in the Institute of Evolutionary Morphology and Ecology of Animals of the Academy of Science of the USSR. From 1991, Krasnov is working in Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. At present, he is a Full Professor and is author of about 200 publications, including 6 books (three monographs and 3 edited volumes). He also the recipient of the 2003 Poula and David Ben-Gurion Foundation's Yudith and Abraham Pasternak Prize and the 2006 BGU Rector's Award for Outstanding Scientists.

Preface, Robert E. Ricklefs
INTRODUCTION Serge Morand and Boris R. Krasnov
PART I HISTORICAL BIOGEOGRAPHY
1. Beyond vicariance: integrating taxon pulses, ecological fitting and oscillation in evolution and historical biogeography, Eric P. Hoberg and Daniel R. Brooks
2. Palaeogeography of parasites, Katharina Dittmar
3. Phylogeography and historical biogeography of obligate specific mutualisms, Nadir Alvarez, Doyle McKey, Finn Kjellberg and Martine Hossaert-McKey
4. Biogeography, humans and their parasites, Pascale Perrin, Vincent Herbreteau, Jean-Pierre Hugot, and Serge Morand
5. The use of co-phylogeographic patterns to predict the nature of host-parasite interactions, and vice versa, Caroline Nieberding, Emmanuelle Jousselin, and Yves Desdevises
PART II ECOLOGICAL BIOGEOGRAPHY AND MACROECOLOGY
6. Marine parasite diversity and environmental gradients, Klaus Rohde
7. Parasite diversity and latitudinal gradients in terrestrial mammals, Frédéric Bordes, Serge Morand, Boris R. Krasnov and Robert Poulin
8. Ecological properties of a parasite: species-specific stability and geographical variation, Boris R. Krasnov and Robert Poulin
9. Similarity and variability in parasite assemblages across geographical space, Robert Poulin and Boris R. Krasnov
10. Gap analysis and the geographical variation in our knowledge of parasites, Mariah Hopkins and Charles L. Nunn
PART III GEOGRAPHY OF INTERACTIVE POPULATIONS
11. In the hosts' footsteps? Ecological niche modeling and its utility in predicting parasite distributions, Eric Walteri and Suzan L. Perkins
12. The geography of defence, Serge Morand, Frédéric Bordes, Benoît Pisanu, Joëlle Goüy de Bellocq, and Boris R. Krasnov
13. Evolutionary landscape epidemiology, Julie Deter, Nathalie Charbonnel, and Jean-François Cosson
PART IV INVASION, INSULARITY, AND INTERACTIONS
14. The geography of host and parasite invasions, Kevin D. Lafferty, Mark E. Torchin, and Armand M. Kuris
15. Immune defence and invasion, Anders P. Møller and Laszlo Z. Garamszegi
16. Infection, immunity, and island adaptation in birds, Kevin D. Matson and Jon S. Beadell
PART V APPLIED BIOGEOGRAPHY
17. The geography and ecology of pathogen emergence, Jan Slingenbergh, Lenny Hogerwerf, and Stéphane de la Rocque
18. When geography of health meets health ecology, Vincent Herbreteau
CONCLUSION AND PERSPECTIVES Serge Morand and Boris R. Krasnov
Index