Remembering Alvise Vittori (Riva del Garda 1932 – Trento 2018)

Obituary for Alvise Vittori (Riva del Garda 1932 - Trento 2018), a well-known Italian ichthyologist, limnologist and all-round ecologist. After many years of service as an aquatic biologist, he was appointed Director of the Experiment Station, where he oversaw its transition to the now Fondazione Edmund Mach. His professional interests ranged from fisheries to lake and stream monitoring to habitat restoration. Alvise was instrumental in starting lake monitoring in Trentino (1973) and in the 1980s founded the San Nicolò Laboratory on Lake Garda. He was involved in lake restoration projects, most notably Lake Caldonazzo, initiated the ecological mapping of Trentino’s waterways using macroinvertebrates and developed the first Fisheries Management Plan (Carta Ittica -1983) in Italy.