These form the natural separation between lagoon and sea. Unlike the salt marshes, which are muddy or silty, the barrier islands are sandy and made up of dunes variously...

The hunting of waterfowl often takes place alongside fishing and is exercised from the hides (botti) that are buried in small islets almost flush with the water, taking...

In the last century, vast areas of the lagoons and surrounding marshes were drained to obtain new agricultural, industrial and urban land. To prevent stagnation, filling was...

Upstream of the lagoons, there used to stretch a vast forest of oak, hornbeam, elm and ash trees that took on the current range of flora about 1000 BC. Over the millennia,...

At the mouth of the Isonzo and in the lagoon of Marano there are large areas of delta with strips of riparian forest and large reed beds that give way to salt marshes and tidal...

Areas normally above the water in a lagoon are called barene or salt marshes and are characterised by halophilic vegetation typical of salty soils. Their height varies...

The coastline that once upon a time (until the 1920s) used to change naturally in response to the rise and fall of the sea level and sedimentation and erosion of the beaches is...