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Killarney fern [Trichomanes speciosum]
Published dateHigher plant species Description and ecological characteristics Killarney fern Trichomanes speciosum is a medium-sized, long-lived fern with delicate, translucent fronds arising from a creeping rhizom...
Dry Atlantic coastal heaths with Erica vagans
Published dateTemperate heath and scrub Description and ecological characteristics This priority habitat type comprises coastal heaths on well-drained, moderately base-rich soils in areas with a warm oceanic climat...
Blanket bogs
Published dateRaised bogs and mires and fens Description and ecological characteristics These extensive peatlands have formed in areas where there is a climate of high rainfall and a low level of evapotranspiration...
Alpine and Boreal heaths
Published dateTemperate heath and scrub Description and ecological characteristics Alpine heaths develop above the natural altitudinal tree-line. Boreal heaths develop below the tree-line in gaps among scrubby high...
Special Protection Areas
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SS.SMp.KSwSS.SlatR Saccharina latissima and red seaweeds on infralittoral sediments
Published date 2015-03On infralittoral mixed muddy substrata communities characterised by the kelp Saccharina latissima and mixed filamentous and foliose red algae can be found. This biotope contains a number of sub-biotop...
SS.SCS.OCS.GlapThyAmy Glycera lapidum, Thyasira spp. and Amythasides macroglossus in offshore gravelly sand
Published date 2015-03Offshore (deep) circalittoral habitats with coarse sands and gravel, stone or shell and occasionally a little silt (Glycera lapidum and Amythasides macroglossus with the bivalve Thyasira spp. (particu...
LR.LLR.F.Fves.X Fucus vesiculosus on mid eulittoral mixed substrata
Published date 2015-03Sheltered and very sheltered mid eulittoral pebbles and cobbles lying on sediment in fully marine conditions typically characterised by the wrack Fucus vesiculosus. The wrack Ascophyllum nodosum can o...
LR.LLR.FVS.Fcer Fucus ceranoides on reduced salinity eulittoral rock
Published date 2015-03Very sheltered to extremely sheltered bedrock and stable boulders in the eulittoral zone that are subject to reduced salinity and characterised by the wrack Fucus ceranoides. Species richness is typic...
LR.HLR.FT.FserT Fucus serratus, sponges and ascidians on tide-swept lower eulittoral rock
Published date 2015-03Sheltered to extremely sheltered lower eulittoral bedrock, boulders and cobbles that are subject to increased tidal water movement and characterised by the wrack Fucus serratus and a rich assemblage o...