Twenty-Three Years of Land-Use Changes Induced Considerable Threats to the Main Wetlands of Sardinia and Sicily (Italy) along the Mediterranean Bird Flyways
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Methods
2.1. Selection of the Study Areas
2.2. Data Preparation
2.3. Change-Detection Analyses
3. Results
3.1. Land-Use Changes in the Sardinian Wetlandscape
3.2. Land-Use Changes in the Sicilian Wetlandscape
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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ID | Region | Wetland | Natura 2000 Site | Surface (ha) | Distance from the Coastline (m) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Sardinia | Cabras | yes | 2048 | 140 |
2 | Sardinia | Calich | yes | 95 | 320 |
3 | Sardinia | Casaraccio | yes | 85 | 300 |
4 | Sardinia | Chia | yes | 13 | 120 |
5 | Sardinia | Colostrai | yes | 127 | 150 |
6 | Sardinia | Feraxi | yes | 63 | 400 |
7 | Sardinia | is Benas | yes | 107 | 500 |
8 | Sardinia | is Brebeis | yes | 162 | 100 |
9 | Sardinia | La Maddalena | yes | 159 | 80 |
10 | Sardinia | Molentargius | yes | 431 | 1900 |
11 | Sardinia | Notteri | yes | 30 | 120 |
12 | Sardinia | Pilo | yes | 130 | 40 |
13 | Sardinia | Platamona | yes | 88 | 340 |
14 | Sardinia | Porto Botte | yes | 156 | 100 |
15 | Sardinia | S. Caterina | yes | 163 | 80 |
16 | Sardinia | S. Giovanni | yes | 305 | 0 |
17 | Sardinia | S. Giusta | yes | 788 | 1800 |
18 | Sardinia | S. Teodoro | yes | 210 | 80 |
19 | Sardinia | Sa Curcurica | yes | 29 | 150 |
20 | Sardinia | Sa Praia | yes | 90 | 800 |
21 | Sardinia | Tartanelle | no | 41 | 250 |
22 | Sardinia | Tortoli | no | 225 | 200 |
23 | Sicily | Auruca | yes | 31 | 300 |
24 | Sicily | Baronello | yes | 20 | 140 |
25 | Sicily | Cuba | yes | 61 | 200 |
26 | Sicily | Faro | no | 26 | 150 |
27 | Sicily | Ganzirri | no | 34 | 150 |
28 | Sicily | Gela | yes | 107 | 1500 |
29 | Sicily | Gornalunga | yes | 13 | 20 |
30 | Sicily | Longarini | yes | 109 | 200 |
31 | Sicily | Morghella | yes | 49 | 150 |
32 | Sicily | Pantano Bruno | yes | 16 | 200 |
33 | Sicily | Pantano Grande | yes | 28 | 100 |
34 | Sicily | Pantano Piccolo | yes | 15 | 100 |
35 | Sicily | Preola | yes | 30 | 1500 |
36 | Sicily | Roveto | yes | 124 | 100 |
37 | Sicily | Tindari | yes | 10 | 40 |
38 | Sicily | Tondi | yes | 10 | 1900 |
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Ferrarini, A.; Gustin, M.; Celada, C. Twenty-Three Years of Land-Use Changes Induced Considerable Threats to the Main Wetlands of Sardinia and Sicily (Italy) along the Mediterranean Bird Flyways. Diversity 2021, 13, 240. https://doi.org/10.3390/d13060240
Ferrarini A, Gustin M, Celada C. Twenty-Three Years of Land-Use Changes Induced Considerable Threats to the Main Wetlands of Sardinia and Sicily (Italy) along the Mediterranean Bird Flyways. Diversity. 2021; 13(6):240. https://doi.org/10.3390/d13060240
Chicago/Turabian StyleFerrarini, Alessandro, Marco Gustin, and Claudio Celada. 2021. "Twenty-Three Years of Land-Use Changes Induced Considerable Threats to the Main Wetlands of Sardinia and Sicily (Italy) along the Mediterranean Bird Flyways" Diversity 13, no. 6: 240. https://doi.org/10.3390/d13060240