Distribution of the ARPA monitoring station along the Apulian coast in the framework of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive. Activities envisaged for monitoring the following elements:

Module 1 – Chemical-physical parameters of the water column, pelagic habitats, floating waste

Module 2 – Microplastics

Module 3 – Non-native species

Module 4 – Beached Waste

Descriptor 5 – Eutrophication (activities carried out in modules 6A, 6F)

Descriptor 8 - Contamination (sediments and biota)

Module 7 – Coralligenous habitat

Module 8 – Habitat of the funds in Rodoliti

Module 9 – Seabed habitat subjected to physical damage

Module 10 – Habitat of Posidonia oceanica meadows

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