Chapter Monitoring changes over a 10-year period, through vegetation maps, in a coastal site in Apulia region (southeastern Italy)

• Main Author: Mantino, Francesca (auth)
• Other Authors: Albanese, Giuseppe (auth), Tomaselli, Valeria (auth), tarantino, cristina (auth), Adamo, Maria (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Florence Firenze University Press 2022
• Series: Monitoring of Mediterranean Coastal Areas: Problems and Measurement Techniques 1
• Subjects: The environment; Habitat change detection; Coastal wetlands; Apulia; Mediterranean sea
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

This study aims to detect, analyze, and evaluate the habitat changes, between 2010 and 2020, occurred in the Mediterranean wetland system of "Zone Umide della Capitanata e Paludi presso il Golfo di Manfredonia". We classified habitats in 2020 using Eunis classification and we compared the obtained map with the Eunis map of 2010, obtained using the same approach, in terms of class area, Magnitude of Changes and the corresponding Trend Percentage of Change. It emerged that expansion of agricultural activities and alterations of the hydrological regime are behind most of the observed changes.