Conservation Medicine

Question 1

What does invasion biology study?

Answer 1

The colonization and establishment of organisms into new habitats, ecosystems or regions in which they did not occur previously

Question 2

Costs of biological invasions

Answer 2

• Economic cost (参见shellfish toxin)
• Environmental cost (#2 cause of species loss after habitat destruction)

Question 3

Bordering or being intersected by one or more major ____ is ____ correlated to a county’s likelihood to be invaded by I. scapularis

Answer 3

rivers; positively

Question 4

Neighboring a previously invaded county is ____ correlated to a county’s likelihood to be ____ by I. scapularis

Answer 4

positively; invaded

Question 5

____ forest cover is ____ correlated to a county’s likelihood to be invaded by I. scapularis

Answer 5

Increasing; positively

Question 6

After the invasion by I. scapularis, the incisence of lyme disease ____.

Answer 6

Increased

Question 7

How does the introduction of the burmese python to southern Florida relate to an increased risk of disease transmission?

Answer 7

The burmese python caused declines in medium/large sized mammals at the local area, which caused subsequent increase in small mammals, including reservoir hosts
(rodents) of mosquito-borne ‘Everglades virus’

Question 8

Invasional meltdown

Answer 8

Different species (indeginous AND invasive) can support each other, which can disrupt the indeginous ecosystem.

Question 9

What is viral chatter？

Answer 9

When a virus episodically spreads from wild animals into humans, occasionally causing small chains of trasmission