Lago di Lugano

Federica Rotta, Camilla Capelli, Agnese Marchini, Barbara Leoni, Giusto Lo Bue, Maya Musa, Maria Pia Riccardi, Fabio Lepori, Beyond the surface – Microplastic hotspots in the water column of a top plastic-polluted deep lake, Journal of Great Lakes Research,
Volume 52, Issue 1, 2026, 102740, ISSN 0380-1330.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2025.102740.

• Fabio Lepori, Camilla Capelli, Danilo Foresti, Changes in phytoplankton composition hinder the recovery from eutrophication in a perialpine lake (Lake Lugano, Switzerland and Italy), Journal of Plankton Research, Volume 44, Issue 1, January/February 2022, Pages 22–35, https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbab083
• Lepori, F., Lucchini, B., Capelli, C., & Rotta, F. (2022). Mesotrophy is not enough: re-assessing phosphorus objectives for the restoration of a deep Alpine lake (Lake Lugano, Switzerland and Italy). Advances in Oceanography and Limnology, 13(2). https://doi.org/10.4081/aiol.2022.11061

• Valsecchi, S., Babut, M., Mazzoni, M., Pascariello, S., Ferrario, C., De Felice, B., Bettinetti, R., Veyrand, B., Marchand, P. and Polesello, S. (2021), Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Fish from European Lakes: Current Contamination Status, Sources, and Perspectives for Monitoring. Environ Toxicol Chem, 40: 658-676. https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.4815

• Guzzella, L.M., Novati, S., Casatta, N. et al. Spatial and temporal trends of target organic and inorganic micropollutants in Lake Maggiore and Lake Lugano (Italian-Swiss water bodies): contamination in sediments and biota. Hydrobiologia 824, 271–290 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-017-3494-7