Quantitative Ecology and the Brown Trout

• 1. Introduction: the brown trout and quantitative ecology ; 2. The brown trout, a successful polytypic species ; 3. Case-study: population dynamics of migratory brown trout in Black Brows Beck, 1966-1990 ; 4. Growth and energetics of brown trout ; 5. Case-study: growth and production of migratory brown trout in Black Brows Beck, 1966-1990 ; 6. Ecological differences between brown trout populations ; 7. Natural selection and genetic differences between brown trout ; 8. Mechanisms responsible for population regulation in young brown trout ; 9. General conclusions ; References ; Author index ; Subject index

Frost and Brown's work "The Trout" has rightly been the touchstone against which all subsequent publications on the species have been judged: Elliot has produced a text of equal importance to the modern trout biologist and at an affordable price!