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Quagga Mussel Monitoring in Lake Zurich — Tracking an Invasion in Real Time
A joint Quagga mussel monitoring survey with AWEL Kanton Zürich shows how fast the population is growing in Lake Zurich — and why continued benthos sampling matters for tracking the invasion's impact from the start.
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Sampling Quagga Mussels Across the Depth Gradient in Lake Constance
Fieldwork for the Morphometrics project — collecting Quagga mussels from 30 m to 200 m depth in Lake Constance using Ponar grabs to study shell shape variation across a depth gradient.
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Monitoring the Quagga Mussel in the Three Lakes Region
In May 2026, a sampling campaign across Neuenburgersee, Bielersee, and Murtensee documented the spread and population dynamics of the Quagga mussel in western Switzerland.
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Lake Zurich's Long History of Invasion
The Quagga mussel made headlines in 2024. But the story of non-native species in Lake Zurich started over a century ago.
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How the Quagga Mussel Was Found in Lake Zurich
In September 2024, a routine sampling trip to Mythenquai ended with the first confirmed record of Quagga mussels in Lake Zurich. Here is that story.
