Lago Paione Inferiore - Italy

Lakes Paione were studied for the fist time in the 1940’s by Vittorio Tonolli (data on lake morphometry, chemical analysis of lake water, biological characteristics). The lakes have been studied since the late 1970s in the framework of several research projects on mountain lakes funded by the EU. e.g. “Quantification of the susceptibility of Alpine lakes to acidification" (1988-1991), "AL:PE, Acidification of mountain Lakes: Palaeolimnology and Ecology" (1991-1994), "MOLAR: MOuntain LAkes Research" (1996-99), “EMERGE: European Mountain lakes Ecosystems: Regionalisation, diaGnostic and socio-economic Evaluation" (2000-2003). Since 1995 Lakes Paione have been included in the UN-ECE Program ICP-WATERS (International Cooperative Programme on Assessment and Monitoring of Acidification of Rivers and Lakes)