Biology, Ecology and Management
1. Edition December 2017
808 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Brown Trout: Biology, Ecology and Management
A comprehensive guide to the most current research, history, genetics and ecology of the brown trout including challenging environmental problems
The brown trout is an iconic species across its natural European distribution and has been introduced throughout the World. Brown Trout offers a comprehensive review of the scientific information and current research on this major fish species. While the brown trout is the most sought species by anglers, its introduction to various waters around the world is causing serious environmental problems. At the same time, introduction of exogenous brown trout lineages threats conservation of native gene pools of populations in many regions. The authors summarize the important aspects of the brown trout's life history and ecology and focus on the impact caused by the species. The text explores potential management strategies in order to maintain numerous damaged populations within its natural distributional range and to ameliorate its impacts in exotic environments.
The authors include information on a wide-range of topics such as recent updates in population genetics, evolutionary history, reproductive traits and early ontogeny, life history plasticity in anadromous brown trout and life history of the adfluvial brown trout and much more. This vital resource:
* Contains the latest research on the biology and ecology of brown trout
* Includes information on phylogeography, genetics, population dynamics and stock management
* Spotlights the brown trout's introduction to regions around the world and the serious environmental impacts
* Offers a comprehensive review of conservation and management techniques
Written for salmonid scientists and researchers, fishery and environmental managers, and students of population genetics, ecology and population dynamics, Brown Trout explores the most recent findings on the history, ecology and sustainability of this much-researched species.
CHAPTER 2 Introduction
SECTION 1 PHYLOGEOGRAPHY AND GENETIC STRUCTURE
CHAPTER 1-3 Phylogeographic history of brown trout: a review
CHAPTER 1-4 Genetics of the genus Salmo in Italy: evolutionary history, population structure, molecular ecology and conservation
CHAPTER 1-5 Understanding the brown trout population genetic structure in the Iberian Peninsula
CHAPTER 1-6 Understanding brown trout population genetic structure: a Northern-European perspective.
SECTION 2 REPRODUCTIVE TRAITS AND EARLY ONTOGENY
CHAPTER 2-7 The Velocity of Love. The role of female choice in salmonine reproduction
CHAPTER 2-8 Observations of male choice in brown trout (Salmo trutta) from Lar National Park, Iran
CHAPTER: 2-9 Energetic trade-offs faced by brown trout during ontogeny and reproduction
CHAPTER 2.10 Impact of embeddedness on Salmo trutta at different periods of their early ontogenesis
SECTION 3 LIFE HISTORY
CHAPTER 3.11 Habitat as template for life histories
CHAPTER 3-12 Life history plasticity in anadromous brown trout: a Norwegian perspective
CHAPTER 3-13 Life-history of the adfluvial brown trout (Salmo trutta L.) in eastern Fennoscandia
SECTION 4. POPULATION DYNAMICS
CHAPTER 4-14 Stream Discharge-Dependent Recruitment in Stream-Spawning Brown Trout
CHAPTER 4-15 Population Dynamics of Juvenile Brown Trout (Salmo trutta L.), Recruitment, Mortality, Biological Production and Smolt Yield in two Danish Baecks.
CHAPTER 4-16 Foraging behaviour of brown trout: a model species for linking individual ecology to population dynamics?
CHAPTER 4-17 Competition within and between year classes in brown trout; implications of habitat complexity on habitat use and fitness.
CHAPTER 4-18 Brown trout on the move - migration ecology and methodology
CHAPTER 4-1. Sea trout (Salmo trutta) in Galicia (NW Spain)
CHAPTER 4-20 Sea Trout (Salmo trutta L.) in Denmark
SECTION 5 BROWN TROUT AS A GLOBAL INVADER
CHAPTER 5-21 BROWN TROUT AS AN INVADER: A Synthesis of Problems and Perspectives in North America
CHAPTER 5-22 The introduction of brown trout to New Zealand and their impact on native fish communities
CHAPTER 5-23 The effects of brown trout on the trophic webs of New Zealand streams
CHAPTER 5-24 Brown trout in Argentina: history, interactions and perspectives
CHAPTER 5-25 Africa: Brown Trout introductions, establishment, current status, impacts and conflicts.
SECTION 6 CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT
CHAPTER 6-26 Why conserve native brown trout
CHAPTER 6-27 Fisheries management of stream resident brown trout populations - Possibilities and Restrictions
CHAPTER 6-28 Ecology and management of stream-resident brown trout in Michigan (USA)
CHAPTER 6-29 History, conservation and management of adfluvial brown trout stocks in Finland
CHAPTER 6-30 Brown trout management for the 21st century.
Javier Lobón-Cerviá is Scientific Researcher, National Museum of Natural Sciences, Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, Spain. He is Founder and Editor in Chief of the International Journal Ecology of Freshwater Fish, a Wiley publication.
Nuria Sanz is Scientific Researcher of the Ichthyology Laboratory of Genetics and Professor of Genetics of the University of Girona, Girona, Spain. She is Associate Editor of the International Journal Ecology of Freshwater Fish.