The authors, specialists in their field, created a perfect balance between basic concepts and higher level eco-epidemiological connections. Thus, the book will be understood not only by researchers working with VBDs, but also by graduate students or public health specialists. * Conservation Biology * The current approach and the new directions detailed in this book will improve understanding and, thus, contribute to developing strategies to mitigate VBD risk to humans, crops, and animals. * Conservation Biology * The book covers the topic in the widest possible sense, from basics in vector population biology to pathogen-vector interactions, ecoepidemiology, social drivers, and control methods of VBDs. The authors have created a perfect balance between basic concepts and higher level eco-epidemiological connections. Thus, the book will be understood not only by researchers working with VBDs, but also by graduate students or public health specialists. * Journal of Conservation Biology * Although marketed as a textbook, each article in the collection is thorough and well researched and could easily stand alone. * J. K. Peterson, Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, The Quarterly Review of Biology *
