Naturalità e Vulnerabilità Ambientale nei Siti Natura 2000 che insistono sui corridoi ecologici del versante jonico calabrese. Caso studio SIC Foce Neto

The Calabria region boasts 179 Sites of Community Interest (SIC) and 6 Special Protection Areas (SPAs). The lack of studies on the state of conservation and environmental quality of these sites (naturalness, artificiality, sensitivity, vulnerability and risk) has led the AA. to characterize the 10 SIC that insist on the ecological corridors of the Ionian Calabrian side. Through the Index of Landscape Conservation (ILC) and Environmentally Sensitive Areas Index (ESAi), an Environmental Analysis was conducted aimed at defining, identifying and assessing values and criticalities. Starting from the Land Use Map (CLC), the Map of Naturalness-Artificiality and the Map of Environmental Sensitivity of the afore mentioned sites have been created, such as derived maps. This study is concluded with a methodological study on the appropriate methods that should be taken to characterize a SIC thanks to the analysis, made before, on SIC Neto, addressed with phytosociological method