Description
Reindeer and Caribou: Health and Disease is a comprehensive presentation of health and diseases in reindeer and caribou, or just Rangifer, a key Circumarctic species with broad social and ecological value. It is an essential reference for anyone interested in the biology and health of wild or semi-domesticated reindeer and caribou, and is more broadly relevant for those with interests in other species of free-ranging and captive cervids. Beginning with a general introduction to Rangifer as a species, it then focuses on Rangifer “health” as a concept and describes the determinants of health at an individual and population level. Chapters cover a range of topics from nutrition and feeding to stress, non-infectious and infectious diseases, meat hygiene, capture and restraint, diagnosis and treatment of health issues, and finally, potential impacts of climate change on health of Rangifer. 549 p.
- Morten Tryland, Editor. Professor in veterinary medicine – infection biology; Norwegian Editor of Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica; Works in the Arctic Infection Biology research group at UiT – Arctic University of Norway; and also holds a Professor-II position at Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI). Both institutions are located in Tromsø (Norway).
- Susan Kutz, Editor. Professor in the Department of Ecosystem and Public Health. University of Calgary, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Alberta (Canada).
- Publication date (digital version): 2018-11 – CRC Press (imprint of Taylor & Francis Group); Copyright © 2019 by by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
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