FIW 4984: Disease ecology and ecosystem health
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Basic guides and tools before getting started
Finding books and materials in Addison
Keywords: broad/general terms found anywhere in the record; use as starting point to find information, then move to subject searches based on items returned of interest in your search.
Some keywords to try:
- Disease ecology
- wildlife parasit*
- use * for truncation – searches parasite, parasites, parasitism, etc
- wildlife disease (management or control)
- use of () dictates search must include the first 2 terms, wildlife and disease, and could include either management or control (or both terms, as long as one is present with the first two, a record will be returned).
Subject headings (specific classifications given to materials about their subject area): these are also called "controlled vocabulary" or "index terms" as these are assigned to materials that meet criteria for a specific subject area.
Examples of broader subject headings
- Host-parasite relationships
- Communicable diseases in animals
- Wildlife diseases
- Parasitology
Examples of more specific subject headings
- Birds -- Infections.
- Mammals -- Parasites.
- Plant diseases -- Epidemiology.
- Chronic wasting disease -- United States.
A sample of the many useful books and resources available through the library
Background resources
- Encyclopedia of parasitology
- Dictionary of parasitology
Examples of books in the collection on evolution of diseases
- Disease emergence and resurgence : the wildlife-human connection
- Ecology and evolution of parasitism
- Emerging pathogens : the archaeology, ecology, and evolution of infectious disease
- Evolutionary ecology of parasites
- Infectious disease ecology : the effects of ecosystems on disease and of disease on ecosystems
- Microbial ecology and infectious disease
- Micromammals and macroparasites : from evolutionary ecology to management
- Parasitism and host behaviour
Examples of books in the collection on specific examples of diseases or species examined
- Chronic wasting disease
- Essentials of disease in wild animals
- Forest pathology : from genes to landscapes
- Infectious diseases of wild birds
- Infectious diseases of wild mammals
- Lemurs : ecology and adaptation
- Parasites, immunity and pathology : the consequences of parasitic infection in mammals
- Primate parasite ecology : the dynamics and study of host-parasite relationships
Using databases to find articles
- Biological Abstracts: Covers articles from life sciences research journals published worldwide
- CABDirect: Over 8.3 million records in the life sciences, covering an international scope
- CSA Natural Sciences: CSA Natural Sciences will search across 20 indexes and their subsets in all areas of the natural sciences (biology, ecology, diseases, plant sciences, etc)
- Medline (aka PubMed) comes from a variety of vendors/platforms:
- Web of Science: Includes Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index
- Wildlife and Ecology Studies Worldwide: World's largest index to literature on wild mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians.
A few key websites
Although there are many websites available, these will help get you started, and are relatively unbiased.
- Wildlife Disease Information Node
- National Wildlife Research Center
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- Science.gov - searches across scientific reports published by the government
- USA.gov - searches across all departments of the government
Additional subject guides to check
- Kyrille K Goldbeck DeBose
- College Librarian for Natural Resources and Environment
- (540) 231-0495
- (540) 231-0419 (Cheatham Hall office)
- kdebose@vt.edu
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315B Cheatham Hall
4005 Newman Library
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