Aquatic Ecology & Evolution

Conservation Biology

Documenting endemic whitefish species and developping a management scheme

After a decade of research in our group on the distribution, origin and loss of endemic whitefish in the northern prealpine lakes of Switzerland we have now entered a phase, where we want to compile all we have learned into a compendium for fisheries managers. To make conservation-minded management effective, the species have to be recognized, defined and named. Our research had led to the realization that there are several yet undescribed and unnamed species of Coregonus in Switzerland. We are now in the process of describing these in the context of a systematic revision of the genus in Switzerland. This is a Bafu/Eawag funded project that we do in collaboration with AquaBios.

graph created by Pascal Vonlanthen

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Funding

Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN)