Extremely high benthic biomass provides food for predators and scavengers

Great interest in the media for published article with participation of Prof. Patricia Holm as co-author

A vast icefish breeding colony has been discovered in the southern Weddell Sea.
A breeding colony of notothenioid icefish (Neopagetopsis ionah, Nybelin 1947) of globally unprecedented extent has been discovered in the southern Weddell Sea, Antarctica.

Cryosphere, microplastics, nature becomes landscape, growth constraints and a threat to Basel

Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Basel, NGIB
Lectures Winter 2021 / Spring 2022

Lecture Prof. Patricia Holm, September 16, 2021

Radio SRF 2 Context broadcast, 30 July 2021

Marine research in Switzerland

What can be done against global warming, acidification, coral dieback and microplastics? Research on these issues is also being carried out in landlocked Switzerland.

Interview with Prof. Patricia Holm starting at minute 41

SRF 4, News aktuell, 01.06.2021

Ship losing tons of plastic

In Sri Lanka, following the accident of a container ship off the coast, tons of microplastics washed up on the coast near the capital Colombo. There is a threat of massive consequences for marine life, and not only on the directly affected section of the coast.
Assessments by Prof. Patricia Holm

Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology - GMIT

participating in report

Evaluations of the interview with Prof. Patricia Holm
in chapter 3 and recommendations for
for authorities in chapter 4

April 2021

Hobbyists acting simultaneously as anglers and aquarists: Novel pathways for non‐native fish and impacts on native fish

Research results from the MGU aim to stipulate a change of perspective among hobbyists, who – by acting simultaneously as anglers and aquarists – establish novel pathways for non‐native fish.
Human translocations of non‐native aquatic species are a global conservation challenge. Aquarists and anglers are two hobbyist groups whose practices are particularly likely to translocate non‐native aquatic species, especially fish. [de]

Jan 2021

This fish grunts when it is ready to have sex

Popular science article on sound production and behaviour of fish of the species Symphodus melops.