"One exciting aspect of this book is that 'ecologists' and 'epidemiologists' and 'microbiologists' and 'botanists' and various other scholars were brought together to share ideas, data, and inferences. This volume reflects such interdisciplinary exchange, and more interactions like this are sorely needed... It is highly recommended as a useful set of readings for ecologists interested in disease-causing microbes, and for epidemiologists seeking understanding of the ecosystem interactions that affect infectious agent transmission."--Mark L. Wilson, Ecology "Infectious Disease Ecology provides new and useful insights that expand upon earlier works in the field."--Gregory E. Glass, BioScience "[T]his is an enormously useful book which, for the first time, brings together a wide range of disciplinary expertise under the umbrella of a comprehensive, integrated approach towards understanding the interrelationship between disease and ecology... This book is tremendously recommendable. It provides comprehensive cutting edge insights into the fascinating interplay of the proximate and ultimate forces that shape the host-pathogen race... It will be the standard for some time to come."--Holger Schutkowski, Journal of Archaeological Science "Overall, the book is quite strong, and offers useful and thorough overviews, a difference from the usual reworks and overviews that pervade edited volumes--in this sense, the editors are to be congratulated... [T]his book is a useful picture of the state of the field, and could be a basis for graduate-level seminars treating the field of disease ecology."--A. Townsend Peterson, Quarterly Review of Biology
