eBook

Invasive species and human health

Mazza, G, Tricarico, E

2018

Overview

Invasive alien plants and animals are known for their disruption of ecosystems and threat to biodiversity. This book highlights their major impact on human health. This includes not only direct effects through contact with the species via bites, wounds and disease, but also indirect effects caused by changes induced in ecosystems by invasive species, such as more water hyacinth increasing mosquito levels and thereby the potential for malaria. Covering a wide range of case studies from different taxa (animals and plants), and giving an overview of the diverse impacts of invasive species on health in developed and developing countries, the book is a significant contribution that will help in prioritizing approaches to controlling invasive species and mitigating their health effects. It covers invasive plants, marine species, spiders and other arachnids, ticks and dust mites, insects, mosquitos and other diptera, freshwater species (invertebrates and fishes), amphibians and reptiles, birds and mammals. Key Features Collects together the major health impacts for the first timeCovers animal and plant invasive speciesExamines issues in developed and developing countries The broad spectrum of the analyzed case studies will ensure the appeal of the book to a wide public, including researchers of biological invasions, doctors, policy-makers and managers, and students of invasive species in ecology, animal and plant biology and public health medicine.

• Publisher: CAB International,CABI
• Subject: Acari / alien invasive species / Amphibia / angiosperms / animal ecology / animals / Apicomplexa / aquatic animals / aquatic invertebrates / aquatic organisms / aquatic plants / aquatic species / Arachnida / Araneae / arthropod pests / arthropods / Astigmata / Biological invasions / Biological invasions -- Health aspects / birds / bites / Chordata / climate / climate change / climatic change / Commelinales / commelinids / communicable diseases / Culicidae / Dermatophagoides / Diptera / disease vectors / ecosystems / Eichhornia / Eichhornia crassipes / envenomation / eukaryotes / exotic organisms / exotic species / fishes / Formicidae / fresh water fish / fresh water fishes / fresh water invertebrates / freshwater fish / freshwater fishes / freshwater invertebrates / Haemospororida / health impact assessment / Hemiptera / Hexapoda / Hominidae / Homo / house dust mites / housedust mites / human diseases / Hymenoptera / infections / infectious diseases / insect bites / insects / Introduced organisms / Introduced organisms -- Health aspects / introduced species / invasive alien species / invasive organisms / invasive species / invasives / invertebrates / Lepidoptera / malaria / mammals / man / marine animals / marine organisms / marine plants / marine species / Metastigmata / mites / monocotyledons / mosquito-borne diseases / mosquitoes / non-indigenous organisms / non-indigenous species / non-native organisms / non-native species / nonindigenous organisms / nonindigenous species / parasites / parasitic diseases / parasitic infestations / parasitoses / parasitosis / pest arthropods / pests / plant ecology / plants / Plasmodiidae / Plasmodium / poisonous plants / Pontederiaceae / primates / Protozoa / protozoal diseases / protozoal infections / public health / Pyroglyphidae / reptiles / Scorpiones / Spermatophyta / spiders / tick bites / tick-borne diseases / tickborne diseases / toxic plants / vector-borne diseases / vectors / venom / venomous animals / venoms / vertebrates / water hyacinth / wounds
• ISBN: 9781786390981, 1786390981