Wildlife Toxicology: Emerging Contaminant and Biodiversity Issues

Surveillance for Emerging Biodiversity Diseases of Wildlife

Effective surveillance is crucial for early detection and successful mitigation of emerging diseases [1]. The current global approach to surveillance for wildlife diseases affecting biodiversity (‘‘biodiversity diseases’’) is still inadequate as demonstrated by the slow characterization and response to the two recent devastating epidemics, chytridiomycosis and whitenose syndrome [2–5]. Current ...

Parasite Zoonoses and Wildlife: Emerging Issues

The role of wildlife as important sources, reservoirs and amplifiers of emerging human and domestic livestock pathogens, in addition to well recognized zoonoses of public health significance, has gained considerable attention in recent years. However, there has been little attention given to the transmission and impacts of pathogens of human origin, particularly protozoan, helminth and arthropo...

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Emerging Consequences of Biotechnology: Biodiversity Loss and IPR Issues

The commercialization of biotechnology has resulted in an intensive search for new biological resources for the purposes of increasing food productivity, medicinal applications, energy production, and various other applications. Although biotechnology has produced many benefits for humanity, its applications have also resulted in some undesirable consequences such as diminished species biodiver...

Emerging Consequences of Biotechnology: Biodiversity Loss and IPR Issues

The commercialization of biotechnology has resulted in an intensive search for new biological resources for the purposes of increasing food productivity, medicinal applications, energy production, and various other applications. Although biotechnology has produced many benefits for humanity, its applications have also resulted in some undesirable consequences such as diminished species biodiver...