The role of Scientific divers in the ADRIREEF project: ARPA Puglia activities Michele De Gioia Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione dell'Ambiente Puglia, Italy Ilaria Dalle Mura ARPA Puglia, Italy Francesco Marco D’Onghia ARPA Puglia, Italy Giuseppe Strippoli ARPA Puglia, Italy Gaetano Costantino ARPA Puglia, Italy Enrico Barbone ARPA Puglia, Italy Nicola Ungaro ARPA Puglia, Italy This is a section of Ninth International Symposium “Monitoring of Mediterranean Coastal Areas: Problems and Measurement Techniques”(DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0030-1) by Laura Bonora, Donatella Carboni, Matteo De Vincenzi, Giorgio Matteucci Firenze University Press Firenze 2022 https://doi.org/10.36253/979-12-215-0030-1.60

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The ADRIREEF project was targeted to valorization of the natural and artificial reefs in the Adriatic Sea according to the principles of the Blue Growth. ARPA Puglia identified the coralligenous reef in the Torre Guaceto MPA (Brindisi, Italy) as a case study for the project purposes. According to the project objectives, the Agency selected some low-impact monitoring methods, like a standard photographic sampling method for the benthic communities and the visual census method to describe the fish assemblages and finally a R.O.V. to test the applied methods and compare the obtained data.

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