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The article presents a study which assesses the biodiversity and 100-year management of Coregonus in the Central Alpine region of Europe. It explores the impact of biodiversity on local populations, extant patterns of genotypic and phenotypic communities within a taxonomic framework to identify indigenous and introduced populations. It recommends that species in all forms in the Central Alpine Coregonus lineage should be viewed as an evolutionarily significant unit.

Examines models of evolution for Coregonus from the Central Alpine region of Europe. How populations from nine lakes were assessed for variation at six microsatellite DNA loci; Discussion of evolutionary models: phenotypic plasticity, multiple invasions of lakes by divergent forms, and within-lake radiation of species flocks; Results rejecting the hypothesis that within-lake morphological and ecological diversity reflects phenotypic plasticity within a single gene pool; Data indicating reproductively isolated species diverged within lakes, with similar patterns repeatedly emerging among lakes.