Invasive Species and Human Health

By: Pedro M. Anastácio and Leonardo Ancillotto and Sylvie Augustin and Daniela Boccolini and Giuseppe Brundu and Dario Capizzi and Lucilla Carnevali and Marco Di Luca and Franz Essl and Bella Galil and Piero Genovesi and Giulio Grandi and Lorenzo Lazzaro and Antonella Lugliè and Angeliki F. Martinou and Jolyon M. Medlock and Mattia Menchetti and Andrea Monaco and Emiliano Mori and Wolfgang Nentwig and Nikola Pantchev and Bachisio Mario Padedda and Olivier S.G. Pauwels and Cristina Preda and Petr Pyšek and Wolfgang Rabitsch and Julian Reynolds and Roberto Romi and Alain Roques and Helen E. Roy and Marie-Anne Auger-Rozenberg and Riccardo Scalera and Francis Schaffner and Stefan Schindler and Francesco Severini and Sauro Simoni and Catherine Souty-Grosset and Paolo Sposimo and Diederik Strubbe and Luciano Toma

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Synopsis: 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 time Covers animal and plant invasive species Examines 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.