Quantitative Ecology and the Brown Trout
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Quantitative Ecology and the Brown Trout by Elliott
Covering not only brown trout, but also their close relatives, this book provides valuable information which is also relevant to animal ecology. The book highlights the global success of the species and provides a long-term case study of population dynamics of one population. It also considers growth and energetics, ecological differences between brown trout populations, natural selection and genetic differences between brown trout, and the mechanisms responsible for population regulation in juvenile trout. Emphasizing the value of such long-term studies to species management and conservation, the book stresses the importance of development, testing and use of realistic models when considering species such as brown trout.
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! * FISH *
All fish population ecologists will want to read this bookIts detail serves to illustrate the principles of population ecology, bringing alive concepts that in the abstract are hard to grasp and sometimes tedious. The book will help students, at all levels, to apply the principles they read about in textbooks, and the textbooks themselves will soon be drawing on Elliott's summary of his own research for both inspiration and illustration. Researchers will want to use the book as a source of ideas for their own work. These will all emphasize the excellent service Elliott has done for fisheries biology by carrying out the research and summarizing it in this splendid book. * Paul J.B. Hart, University of Leicester, Journal of Fish Biology, Volume 46, Number 1, January 1995 *
This is a very carefully planned and well-written book. Its aims and overall structure are clearly outlined at the start and its conclusions spelled out as seven key points in the concludijng chapter. Elliott's style of writing is simple and concise ... As a result, the book provides a detailed and informative but easily-assimilated review of what must count as one of the key ecological studies of recent times. Felicity Huntingford, University of Glasgow, TREE, Vol. 10, No. 2, February 1995
All fish population ecologists will want to read this bookIts detail serves to illustrate the principles of population ecology, bringing alive concepts that in the abstract are hard to grasp and sometimes tedious. The book will help students, at all levels, to apply the principles they read about in textbooks, and the textbooks themselves will soon be drawing on Elliott's summary of his own research for both inspiration and illustration. Researchers will want to use the book as a source of ideas for their own work. These will all emphasize the excellent service Elliott has done for fisheries biology by carrying out the research and summarizing it in this splendid book. * Paul J.B. Hart, University of Leicester, Journal of Fish Biology, Volume 46, Number 1, January 1995 *
This is a very carefully planned and well-written book. Its aims and overall structure are clearly outlined at the start and its conclusions spelled out as seven key points in the concludijng chapter. Elliott's style of writing is simple and concise ... As a result, the book provides a detailed and informative but easily-assimilated review of what must count as one of the key ecological studies of recent times. Felicity Huntingford, University of Glasgow, TREE, Vol. 10, No. 2, February 1995
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780198540908 |
| ISBN 10 | 0198540906 |
| Title | Quantitative Ecology and the Brown Trout |
| Author | Elliott |
| Series | Oxford Series In Ecology And Evolution |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1994-02-17 |
| Number of pages | 298 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |