[2] This char species usually inhabits the deeper waters of the lakes, feeding on crustaceans, insects and benthic fauna.

They look for areas with pebbly or stony bottom on steep slopes, at depths between 30 and 120 m during the spawning season.

[3] This char species lives in alpine and subalpine glacial valley lakes of central Europe, between France and Austria and between Germany and Northern Italy.

Although it is assessed as a least concern species by IUCN, the eutrophication of the lakes in the Subalpine region, which began in the 1950s and peaked in 1979, badly affected Salvelinus umbla populations, which crashed during that period.

[4] The name Salvelinus umbla has also been used in Sweden of char populations of central parts of the country, referred to as storröding (large char) in distinction of the northern fjällröding ( = Salvelinus alpinus).