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Abstract
Burullus wetland (i.e. Burullus Protectorate Area) is located along the Mediterranean coast in the northern part of Nile Delta. It is bordered from the north by Mediterranean Sea and from south by the agricultural lands of northern Nile Delta. Burullus Wetland belongs administratively to Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate. It lies in a central position between the two branches of Nile: Damietta Branch to the east and Rosetta Branch to the west. The Protectorate includes the entire area of Lake Burullus with numerous islets insides it, as well as the sand bar that separates the Lake from the Mediterranean Sea, with a shoreline of about 65 km. The total area of this Protectorate is 460 km2.
The shoreline of Lake Burullus takes several forms related basically to its formation, origin and evolution. It has an oblong shape, extends for a distance of 47 km along NE-SW axis. The width of the Lake from north to south varies from site to the other. The western sector has the least width which does not exceed 5 km, then it increases in the middle sector to reach an average of 11 km. Lake Burullus had lost about 49% of its size along 112 years (from 1092 km2 in 1801 to 556 km2 in 1913), and about 62.5% by 1997 (410 km2).
Lake Burullus is a shallow basin with a depth varies between 40 cm near the shores and 200 cm near the sea outlet (Boughaz El-Burullus). The field studies, using remote sensing, indicated that the deepest parts lie in the middle sector of the Lake, where the depth reaches 200 cm, and also the southern parts of the western sector (west of Doshimi islet). The eastern sector is the shallowest, where the depth does not exceed 20 cm near the shore, but increases westwards until it reaches about 70 cm.
The main basin of Lake Burullus is classified into three sectors: eastern, middle and western; each one of them has some sort of homogeneity in the geomorphological, hydrological and biological characteristics.The islets scattered in the Lake form physical isolations between these sectors.