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Along this path we can meet two types of ecosystems: the typical Mediterranean maquis and the brackish lagoon.

MEDITERRANEAN BUSH:

The typical flora includes shrub species (reference) and tree species (reference) which have similar characteristics, which make them able to tolerate the brackish winds, coming precisely from the Mediterranean (reference), as well as periods of aridity of the land.

In particular:

• limited growth in height

• very resistant stems

• stiff and leathery leaves

• evergreen trees

first of all we need to distinguish two types of spots

• high scrub includes plants with an almost arboreal habit (reference), with foliage reaching 4 meters in height, such as the holm oak (reference), the oak (reference) and the cork oak (reference), but also the strawberry tree (reference), red juniper (reference).

• low maquis in which we find species with a shrubby habit (reference) and foliage that reaches a maximum height of 2-3 m. Examples are brooms (reference), cysts (reference), laurel (reference) and rosemary (reference).

As regards the fauna, the typical animals of this ecosystem are both mammals (reference) and reptiles (reference), birds (reference), amphibians and insects (reference).

Among the mammals we mention the most representative such as the fallow deer (reference), the roe deer (reference), as well as the badger (reference), wild boar (reference), the wolf (reference), the fox (reference), and the squirrel ( reference),. There are also various species of reptiles such as turtles (reference), vipers (reference), and lizards (reference).

LAGOON:

FLORA

They include the following domineering species: the Marsh samphire (Salicornia herbacea, Salicornia europaea), Sea blite (Sueda maritima), Reed (Phragmites australis), Narrowleaf cattail (Typha angustifolia), vicia (Vicia campestris), sea wormwood (Artemisia maritima) etc.

The lagoon is also an ideal habitat for small mammals (rodents and insectivores, coypu which however is allochthonous), insects, small gastropods (e.g. Gibula albida), crustaceans, annelids such as the "Tremolina" (Nereis diversicolor), amphibians and reptiles such as the water snake (Natrix natrix) and the marsh turtle.