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Hydrophilous tall herb fringe communities of plains and of the montane to alpine levels
Published dateNatural and semi-natural grassland formations Description and ecological characteristics This habitat type is typically found on ungrazed upland cliff ledges, occasionally extending on to open ground,...
Hard oligo-mesotrophic waters with benthic vegetation of Chara spp.
Published dateFreshwater habitats Description and ecological characteristics This habitat type is characterised by water with a high base content, most often calcium but very rarely magnesium, and is usually confin...
LR.FLR.Rkp.G Green seaweeds (Ulva spp. and Cladophora spp.) in shallow upper shore rockpools
Published date 2015-03Rockpools in the littoral fringe or upper eulittoral zone subject to widely fluctuating temperatures and salinity are characterised by ephemeral green alga of the genus Ulva, along with Cladophora spp...
SS.SCS.OCS.HeloPkef Hesionura elongata and Protodorvillea kefersteini in offshore coarse sand
Published date 2015-03Offshore (deep) circalittoral habitats with coarse sand may support populations of the interstitial polychaete Hesionura elongata with Protodorvillea kefersteini. Other notable species include the phy...
LS.LMu.MEst.HedMacScr Hediste diversicolor, Macoma balthica and Scrobicularia plana in littoral sandy mud
Published date 2015-03Mainly mid shore mud or sandy mud subject to variable salinity on sheltered estuarine shores. Typically, the sediment is wet in appearance and has an anoxic layer below 1 cm depth. The surface of the ...
LR.FLR Features of littoral rock
Published date 2015-03Littoral rock features includes lichens and algae crusts (LIC) in the supralittoral zone and rockpools (Rkp), ephemeral algae (Eph) and caves (CvOv) in the intertidal zone (the area of the shore betwe...
SS.SBR.SMus Sublittoral mussel beds (on sublittoral sediment)
Published date 2015-03Sublittoral mussel beds comprised of either the horse mussel Modiolus modiolus or the common mussel Mytilus edulis. These communities may be sublittoral extensions of littoral reefs or exist independe...
LR.HLR.FR.RPid Ceramium sp. and piddocks on eulittoral fossilised peat
Published date 2015-03Outcrops of fossilised peat in the eulittoral are soft enough to allow a variety of piddocks such as Barnea candida and Petricolaria pholadiformis to bore into them. The surface of the peat can be cha...
LS.LBR Littoral biogenic reefs
Published date 2015-03The Littoral Biogenic Reefs habitat complex contains two biotope complexes (littoral Sabellaria reefs, and mixed sediment shores with mussels), encompassing the littoral biotope dominated by the honey...
Sub-Atlantic and medio-European oak or oak-hornbeam forests of the Carpinion betuli
Published dateForests Description and ecological characteristics In south-east England there are woodland stands of oak Quercus spp. with some hornbeam Carpinus betulus that are considered closer to this central Eu...