"A Science Publishers book."

chapter 1 Preface; Introduction to Pike and This Book / P. Anders Nilsson -- part Section I Individuals -- chapter 2 Finding Food and Staying Alive / P. Anders Nilsson -- chapter 3 Coping with Environments; Vegetation, Turbidity and Abiotics / Lene Jacobsen -- chapter 4 Bioenergetics and Individual Growth of Pike / John D. Armstrong -- chapter 5 Spatial Ecology / Christian Skov -- part Section II Populations andCommunities -- chapter 6 Pike Population Size and Structure: Influence of Density-Dependent and Density-Independent Factors -- chapter 7 Thrond O. Haugen and L. Asbjørn Vøllestad 7. Population Genetics of Pike / Lovisa Wennerström -- chapter 8 Trophic Interactions / Anders Persson -- part Section III Management andFisheries -- chapter 9 Stocking for Pike Population Enhancement / Nicolas Guillerault -- chapter 10 Habitat Restoration – A Sustainable Key to Management / Olof Engstedt -- chapter 11 Pike Stocking for Lake Restoration / Christian Skov -- chapter 12 Recreational Piking - Sustainably Managing Pike in Recreational Fisheries / Robert Arlinghaus -- chapter 13 Northern Pike Commercial Fisheries, Stock Assessment and Aquaculture -- chapter 14 Anna Kuparinen and Hannu Lehtonen 14. The Northern Pike, A Prized Native but Disastrous Invasive / Kristine Dunker.

This book sets out to bridge the order scales among pike researchers, populations, communities, management, and fisheries. It emphasizes the progress of pike research during the last two decades, during which the order-bridging approach emerged. This framework underpins the text and the message, to convey its importance to pike research and to fish research in general. In addition, a considerable part of the book is devoted to management implications and highlights aspects of human dimensions in recreational fisheries.