TRETAMARA project
Programme: INTERREG ITALIA-SLOVENIA
Priority: 3 Protecting and promoting natural and cultural resources
Project title: Rocky habitats and marine environments of the Northern Adriatic: management proposals
Acronym: TRETAMARA
Duration: 2019 - 2021 (24 months)
Total budget: EUR 820.000
ISMAR budget: EUR 150.000
Web site: n.a.
Summary:
In the northern Adriatic Sea there are peculiar marine and coastal habitats that host a very relevant animal and plant biodiversity: they are the underwater biogenic-geogenic rocky outcrops of Friuli Venezia Giulia and Veneto, the dead corallites of Cladocora caespitosa of the Slovenian side pertaining to several coastal ZSC-ZPS along the littorals. In the frame of the previous Trecorala project (Interreg Ita-Slo 2007-13) the ecological status of these geo-biogenic formations has been assessed: the activity led to the identification of priority habitats such as coralligenous, rhodolith and maerl fonds that have been recognized as sites of EU interest. In Slovenia, the Cladocora caespitosa formations are found in the protected marine areas Natural Monument of Punta Grossa and Strunjan Nature Park. TRETAMARA aims to build upon previous knowledge and promotes the identification of the best management practices to be included in the Management Plans of coastal and marine sites. The project will contribute to the harmonization of management plans in the northern Adriatic basin, also proposing national and transnational guidelines for an integrated management of the marine-coastal habitats of high ecological value: this will be achieved through targeted actions with high innovative content.
Contact person in ISMAR: alessandro.bergamasco@ve.ismar.cnr.it
Partnership:
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – Istituto di Scienze Marine (CNR-ISMAR)
- Nacionalni Inštitut Za Biologijo, Morska Biološka Postaja Piran
- Shoreline Società Cooperativa
- Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale – OGS
