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Project "Biodiversity Preservation in the Adriatic Sea"-Specially protected area "Palagruža"

The projekt "Biodiversity in the Preservation in the Adriaic Sea" is created to promote apecial protection of selected areas. The network of specially protected areas (marine parks, fish reserves, special reserves etc.) in the Croatian part of the Adriatic Sea with strictly defined management regulation has an aim to preserve and to protect the biodiversity and to allow the natural renewal of bioresources, especially of economically important species. In the present preliminary research, the following main characteristics of the narine area of the island of Palgruža have been determinated: dimension and bathymetry ; physical paremeters: temperature, salinity, density, transparency and colour ; chemical parameters: concentration of nutrients, pH and oxygen concentration ; benthic bionomy: distribution and composition of benthic communities, and composition of coastal populations of fish, cephalopods and crustaceans. The proper protocol for systematic protection includes a thorough inventory species, conditions and environmental impacts, the collection of monitoring data to track change and ongoing research into the dynamics of underwater communities. Priority concerning research and inclusion into specially protected areas should be extended to the open sea islands. The elaboration and implementation concepts of projects are thus highly compatible with the development - policy guidelines of national scientific-research programme nad National Island Development Strategy.

Adriatic Sea; Palagruža; specially protected area.

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