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January 1, 2002

Wildlife disease in the Colorado Delta as an indicator of ecosystem health Wildlife disease in the Colorado Delta as an indicator of ecosystem health

Ecosystem health and management are relatively new paradigms for environmental management (Costanza et al., 1992) and will be continually redefined and reevaluated relative to their purpose and utility in serving human society (Costanza et al., 1992; Sutter, 1993; Grumbine, 1994; Lackey, 1998, 1999). The stimulus for ecosystem management is often associated with sustaining or restoring...

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Tonie E. Rocke, M. Friend

Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

January 1, 2002

Preface Preface

This issue of Hydrobiologia brings together a series of papers resulting from an intensified effort to describe the current status of the physical and biological conditions present at California's Salton Sea. Most of the studies were contract investigations that were part of a project initiated in January 1998 to pursue the improvement of environmental conditions at the Salton Sea. The...

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M. Friend

Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

January 1, 2002

Joining forces to improve our world Joining forces to improve our world

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W.B. Karesh, S.A. Osofsky, Tonie E. Rocke, P.L. Barrows

Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

January 1, 2002

Book review: Wisconsin's natural communities: how to recognize them, where to find them by Randy Hoffman, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, 2002 Book review: Wisconsin's natural communities: how to recognize them, where to find them by Randy Hoffman, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, 2002

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James P. Bennett

Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

January 1, 2002

Car lichens in the United States Car lichens in the United States

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J. P. Bennett

Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

January 1, 2002

West Nile virus in livestock and wildlife West Nile virus in livestock and wildlife

West Nile (WN) virus, the causative agent of West Nile fever, a dengue-like infection in humans, is one of the most widely distributed arthropod-borne viruses extending, until recently, from Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and western Asia. WN virus is a natural avian virus transmitted between birds primarily by ornithophilic mosquitoes, although isolations have been reported from...

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R. G. McLean, S. R. Ubico, D. Bourne, N. Komar

Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

January 1, 2002

Climate warming and disease risks for terrestrial and marine biota Climate warming and disease risks for terrestrial and marine biota

Infectious diseases can cause rapid population declines or species extinctions. Many pathogens of terrestrial and marine taxa are sensitive to temperature, rainfall, and humidity, creating synergisms that could affect biodiversity. Climate warming can increase pathogen development and survival rates, disease transmission, and host susceptibility. Although most host-parasite systems are...

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C. D. Harvell, C. E. Mitchell, J. R. Ward, S. Altizer, A. P. Dobson, R. S. Ostfeld, Michael D. Samuel

Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

January 1, 2002

French Frigate Shoals reef health survey French Frigate Shoals reef health survey

French Frigate Shoals (FFS) is one of the refugia comprising the Northwest Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge (NWHINWR). French Frigate Shoals was discovered by La Perouse in the late 18th century; however, the atoll was most notable as a naval air station during World War II when the US Navy dredged Tern Island into an airstrip, and the US Coast guard established a LORAN station...

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Thierry M. Work, Steve L. Coles, Robert Rameyer

Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

January 1, 2002

Application of diagnostic tests for mycoplasmal infections of desert and gopher tortoises with management recommendations Application of diagnostic tests for mycoplasmal infections of desert and gopher tortoises with management recommendations

Mycoplasmosis is a transmissible upper respiratory tract disease that has affected plans for management and conservation of wild desert and gopher tortoises in the United States. Although impact of mycoplasmosis on populations of desert and gopher tortoises is unknown, increased prevalence of seropositive animals as well as field observations of clinically ill tortoises have occurred in

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D.R. Brown, Isabella M. Schumacher, Grace S. Mclaughlin, L.D. Wendland, Mary E. Brown, P.A. Klein, E.R. Jacobson

Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

January 1, 2002

Epizootiologic studies of avian vacuolar myelinopathy in waterbirds Epizootiologic studies of avian vacuolar myelinopathy in waterbirds

Epizootic avian vacuolar myelinopathy (AVM) was first recognized as a neurologic disease in bald eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) and American coots (Fulica americana) in Arkansas, USA in 1994 and 1996, respectively, but attempts to identify the etiology of the disease have been unsuccessful to date. Between 1998 and 2001, wing clipped sentinel birds (wild American coots and game farm...

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Tonie E. Rocke, N. J. Thomas, T. Augspurger, Kimberli J.G. Miller

Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

January 1, 2002