Campylobacter pyloriin health and disease: An ecological perspective

An Ecological Perspective on Housing, Health and Well-being

Zoogeography: an Ecological Perspective

1. What is ecological zoogeography 2. Ecogeographical “rules” 2.1. Bergmann’s rule 2.2. Allen’s rule 2.3. Rapoport’s rule 3. Distribution of animals: patterns and causal factors 3.1. Species conceptualization and delimitation: their importance for zoogeography 3.2. Patterns of distribution 3.3. Endemisms and relicts 3.4. Abiotic ecological factors influencing species distribution 3.5. Biotic ec...

Antibiotics: an ecological perspective

The effects of antibiotics on the indigenous microbes of the gut have been the subject of extensive study ever since the discovery of these drugs in the 1940s and their subsequent commercial production. Yet nearly all of this work has concerned the effects of individual antibiotics on individual, cultivated strains of bacteria in the laboratory, or on specific species of bacteria cultivated fro...

The importance of biodiversity to human health: An ecological Perspective

Brazilian biodiversity is recognized as one of the most expressive in the terrestrial biosphere and plays an important role to human well-being and health, providing basic products and ecosystem services. The products or goods from natural ecosystems include pharmaceutical material, food such as fishery, timber, and many others. Natural ecosystems also provide essential life-supporting services...

Infectious diseases: an ecological perspective.

in human history. Between 1348 and 1352 in many European countries plague was estimated to have killed a third to a half of the population [1,2]. It was not swords and guns but imported microbes, carried by explorers over oceans, that defeated native populations in the Americas [3] and in Australia and southern Africa the arrival of Europeans killed off local populations by introducing infectio...