الفهرس 
INTRODUCTION
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Abstract
The study area have been targeted to intensive human activities through establishing various developmental projects such as reclamation of wide areas for agriculture, industries, and fisheries along with their supplementary infrastructures such as roads, irrigation canals, and drains. These human activities, undoubtedly, reshaped the landscape of the study area that result in considerable impact on various habitat. The aim of the study is monitoring the changes of the land forms and natural habitats and the impact of these changes on the vegetation in the study area. To monitor these changes, multi-dates satellite imagery such as Landsat TM (1984), Landsat TM (1997), Landsat ETM (2003) and SPOT XS (2006) have been used to determine and assess the changes of the spatial characteristics of the landforms through the last two decades. Satellite images of different dates have been analyzed using ERDAS Imagine 8.4 software. The study area is differentiated into four land forms as natural habitats (sand sheets, sand dune, salt marsh and reed swamps) and other four land uses or human activities (cultivated lands, reclaimed lands, fisheries, road network and irrigation/ drainage network). These activities reshaped the landscape of the coastal areas of the Nile Delta from 1984 to 2006. The cultivated lands increased from 1.49% in 1984 to 21.09% in 1997, 32.9% in 2003 and decreased to 25.13% in 2006. As a result of these intensive human activities, we can summarize the changes in the habitats in the study area into: habitat destruction, habitat degradation, habitat creation and habitat fragmentation.