Scientific papers and other reports

Most publications are available as pdf's, some of them through the UniBern repository (BORIS), some on this website.

Please note: The copyright of these articles is with their respective publishers, or with the authors for the open source papers. By downloading an article, you agree to limit the use of the pdf file to printing of single copies for personal research and study. You may not modify the files in any way, and you may not use them for commercial purposes.

Projet Lac Synthesis Report

At the end of 2021 we published the final synthesis report of our project "Projet Lac" in which 35 peri-alpine lakes over a period of 10 years were fished quantitatively for the first time. In Switzerland alone, 106 fish species were detected. With almost 20 percent of all known fish species in Europe, Switzerland is one of the hotspots for fish species diversity. The results are now the basis for measures for sustainable fishing and the protection of this still preserved diversity.