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LR.FLR.CvOv.SpByAs Sponges, bryozoans and ascidians on deeply overhanging lower shore bedrock or caves
Published date 2015-03Overhanging, and shaded vertical, bedrock on the lower shore and in lower shore caves, which is not subject to appreciable wave-surge, characterised by crusts of bryozoans including Oshurkovia littora...
LR.HLR.FT Fucoids in tide-swept conditions
Published date 2015-03Biotope complex description Fucoid seaweeds in tide-swept conditions on sheltered to extremely sheltered mid eulittoral to lower eulittoral rocky shores, such as narrow channels in sea lochs. The midd...
IR.HIR.KSed.Sac Saccorhiza polyschides and other opportunistic kelps on disturbed sublittoral fringe rock
Published date 2015-03Exposed low-lying reefs in the sublittoral fringe or upper infralittoral (generally above 5m depth), mainly in the southwest and west, dominated by the kelp Saccorhiza polyschides. This opportunistic ...
LR.FLR.Lic.UloUro Ulothrix flacca and Urospora spp. on freshwater-influenced vertical littoral fringe soft rock
Published date 2015-03An assemblage of the small un-branched filamentous green seaweeds Ulothrix flacca, Urospora penicilliformis and Urospora wormskioldii at High Water Spring Tide level on steep and vertical rock often i...
LR.HLR High energy littoral rock
Published date 2015-03Extremely exposed to moderately exposed or tide-swept bedrock and boulder shores. Extremely exposed shores dominated by mussels and barnacles, occasionally with robust fucoids or turfs of red seaweed....
SS.SCS.CCS.SpiB Spirobranchus triqueter with barnacles and bryozoan crusts on unstable circalittoral cobbles and pebbles
Published date 2015-03This biotope is characterised by a few ubiquitous robust and/or fast growing ephemeral species which are able to colonise pebbles and unstable cobbles and slates which are regularly moved by wave and ...
LR.HLR.FR.Mas Mastocarpus stellatus and Chondrus crispus on very exposed to moderately exposed lower eulittoral rock
Published date 2015-03Exposed to moderately exposed lower eulittoral vertical to almost horizontal bedrock characterised by a dense turf of Mastocarpus stellatus and Chondrus crispus (either together or separately). Beneat...
LR.MLR.BF.PelB Pelvetia canaliculata and barnacles on moderately exposed littoral fringe rock
Published date 2015-03Exposed to moderately exposed steep, lower littoral fringe rock and mixed substrata characterised by the wrack Pelvetia canaliculata and sparse barnacles Chthamalus montagui and Semibalanus balanoides...
LR.LLR.F.Pel Pelvetia canaliculata on sheltered littoral fringe rock
Published date 2015-03Lower littoral fringe bedrock or stable boulders and mixed substrata in sheltered to extremely sheltered conditions characterised by a dense cover of the wrack Pelvetia canaliculata. The biotope may b...
LR.MLR.MusF.MytPid Mytilus edulis and piddocks on eulittoral firm clay
Published date 2015-03Clay outcrops in the mid to lower eulittoral which are bored by a variety of piddocks including Pholas dactylus, Barnea candida and Petricolaria pholadiformis. The surface of the clay is characterised...