Wildlife Health and Disease in Conservation—2nd Edition
A special issue of Veterinary Sciences (ISSN 2306-7381).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 1124
Special Issue Editor
Interests: wildlife pathology; wildlife diseases; veterinary pathology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We invite submissions for this Special Issue of Veterinary Sciences, entitled “Wildlife Health and Disease in Conservation—2nd Edition”, focusing on disease, causative agents, and their impact on threatened wildlife conservation. External factors such as climate change, habitat encroachment, human–wildlife interactions, pollution, and invasive species pose novel threats, increasing mortality and morbidity, among wildlife worldwide. Therefore, how these emerging and re-emerging threats influence or intensify the degree of occurrence of novel host–pathogen interactions remains poorly understood. This Special Issue seeks contributions that address wildlife disease threats within a conservation context, including, but not limited to, novel host–pathogen relationships, particularly in endangered and vulnerable species.
Dr. Viviana Gonzalez Astudillo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- conservation
- wildlife
- disease
- climate change
- habitat encroachment
- endangered species
- natural disasters
- host–pathogen relationships
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