Frontiers in Remote Sensing, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 6

Опубликована: Апрель 10, 2025

Coastal areas represent delicate and complex environments due to the interconnection between land sea, where marine, fluvial anthropogenic stressors combine threatening undermining coastal health. Sea level rise increasing storminess, for instance, lead more frequent flooding habitat loss erosion; sediment supply by rivers, on other hand, helps balance restore loss. However, excessive riverine nutrient inputs may eutrophication phenomena, putting ecosystem as well communities at serious risk. Here, we compute high resolution (300 m) Chlorophyll-a (Chl) Total Suspended Matter (TSM, a proxy concentration) trends over Adriatic using single sensors MERIS (from 2003 2012) OLCI 2017–2024) data, study response of marine human and/or environmental pressures, thus detecting likely subject starvation. Such an analysis is complemented Po River discharge data investigate role river outputs in shaping observed within basin. Our results reveal Chl TSM northern part basin being positively correlated with during investigated period, both data. Increases/decreases outflow resulted positive/negative trends. Although negative trend was documented last 25 years, load fluctuations regulate long- short-term, local North This result suggests direct relationship existing statistical delta areas.

Язык: Английский