Abstract

Turkey,which has totally 8333 km length coastline, has important sand dune regions which are generally accepted as a sensitive ecosystem. Coastal sand dunes which include flora and fauna are the important parts of the ecosystem. In ecologically, sand dunes are very sensitive biotops. Most of the sand dune plants can not continue their lives any other place, except sand dune regions. Saros Gulf includes coastal ecosystem, forest ecosystem ,aquatic ecosystem and agricultural ecosystem is very important from the coastal ecosysstem point of view, too. But, sand dune regions are under the pressure of the various environmental effects because of the dense usage. Therefore, in the research, the region between the Adilhan-Kocaçesme and Enez education camp of the İstanbul University which has 75km 787m length coastline was taken into consideration and coastal sand dunes of the Adilhan, Sazlıdere, Gökçetepe, Mecidiye, Erikli, Yayla, Karaincirli, Vakıf, Büyükevren, Gülçavuş and Sultaniçe has been searched. By using the Netcad program sand dunes lengths and squares have been calculated , environmental effects on them have been defined and evaluated in various criterions.