Introduced fish are a major threat for high altitude aquatic habitats and Salvelinus fontinalis
have been widely used throughout the Alps for stocking lakes and rivers. Understanding its …

High mountain lakes are originally fishless, although many have had introductions of non-
native fish species, predominantly trout, and recently also minnows introduced by fishermen …

Fish stocking is a serious threat to originally fishless mountain lakes. We used non-chemical
eradication methods (ie gillnetting and electrofishing) in four high mountain lakes in the …

Traceability, quality and safety of edible insects are important both for the producers and the
consumers. Today, alongside the burst of edible insects in western countries, we are facing …

Mountain lakes provide some fundamental ecosystem services (ie, water supply for drinking
and energy production) and have an enormous aesthetic and conservation value …

Despite the biologically damaging impacts of solar ultraviolet radiation (UV) in nature, little is
known about its natural variability, forcing mechanisms, and long-term effects on ecosystems …

Integrative taxonomy, a multi‐disciplinary approach adding modern techniques to traditional
morphology‐based methods (eg molecular and morphological criteria), can play an …

In the context of novel foods, a category for which the market demand is increasing
worldwide, the consumption of edible insects and related insect-based products is expected …

The biogeography and genetic structure of aquatic zooplankton populations remains
understudied in the Eastern Palearctic, especially the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Here, we …

We report a dataset of known and published occurrence records of Italian taxa from species
(and subspecies) to family rank of the phylum Rotifera; we considered only Bdelloidea …