Flora
Brijuni is a specific and valuable landscape relations in our region just vegetation component. On the Great Brijun achieved is extremely valuable harmony of natural and anthropogenic elements in coherent picture of the landscape. By taking formerly agricultural areas and clearing of forest areas and their conversion into landscape parks with large open meadows, have created a remarkable landscape that is unique to the Croatian Adriatic coast.
The majority of floristic elements on the Brioni Islands have the right Mediterranean features. The most important vegetable categories Great Brijuni: maquis (261 ha), grassland (124 ha), parks (118 ha), black oak forest (68 ha), oak and laurel forest (48 ha), coniferous (18 ha)
Is worth mentioning that in the islands found some species of plants that are classified as particularly vulnerable in Istria (sea Makovica, wild cucumber, some types of grass, etc.), and they are represented in the islands a lot and normally develop.
Fauna
Given the presence of thousands of years man on the Brijuni islands, wildlife on the islands, especially on the Great Brijun by native animals is enriched with numerous entries filled species that are characteristic of this habitat, but they are good thanks aklimatizirale almost ideal microclimate conditions.
Undersea
Jagged coastline, diversity of background, bathymetric configuration of the specific hydrodynamic conditions are reflected in the great diversity of littoral biocenose - living communities - that are characteristic of the north - the Adriatic region and still unchanged outside the direct influence of pollution sources.
The Brijuni archipelago is important as a fish hatchery and representative oasis (marine park) for a typical marine organisms of the northern Adriatic Sea, and their villages and communities. Of the marine organisms that are protected by the law on nature protection in the waters of Brijuni is the presence of pen shell (Pinna nobilis) and shellfish (Lithophaga lithophaga). Protected marine vertebrates, occasionally more of Brijuni turtles and dolphins. There are several endemic species like the brown algae, and the tunicate Bračić Adriatic Adriatic gypsy. The underwater world is rich in sponges, shellfish, sea urchins, crabs, fish and other. Among the most common fish in the sea bass, sea bream, mullets, soles, scorpion fish, conger eels, dentex, umber ... In the past, the waters of Brijuni large number of species which is first mentioned in the Adriatic. Here are described some new species for science, as well as coral Alcyonium brionense (Kuekenthal 1906.), Or the variety of sponges Ircinia variabilis fistulata (Szymanski, 1904)..
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