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LR.LLR.FVS.AscVS Ascophyllum nodosum and Fucus vesiculosus on variable salinity mid eulittoral rock
Published date 2015-03Very sheltered to extremely sheltered mid eulittoral bedrock, boulders or cobbles subject to variable salinity characterised by an impoverished community dominated by a mixture of the wracks Ascophyll...
LR.FLR.Rkp.FK Fucoids and kelp in deep eulittoral rockpools
Published date 2015-03Deep or larger rockpools in the mid to lower eulittoral zone on exposed to moderately exposed shores characterised by the wrack Fucus serratus and the kelp Laminaria digitata and the red seaweed Coral...
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 ...
SS.SMx.CMx Circalittoral mixed sediment
Published date 2015-03Mixed (heterogeneous) sediment habitats in the circalittoral zone (generally below 15-20 m) including well mixed muddy gravelly sands or very poorly sorted mosaics of shell, cobbles and pebbles embedd...
LR.FLR.Lic.Pra Prasiola stipitata on nitrate-enriched supralittoral or littoral fringe rock
Published date 2015-03Exposed to moderately exposed bedrock and large boulders in the supralittoral and littoral fringe that receives nitrate enrichment from nearby roosting sea birds and is characterised by a band or patc...
LR.LLR Low energy littoral rock
Published date 2015-03Sheltered to extremely sheltered rocky shores with very weak to weak tidal streams are typically characterised by a dense cover of fucoid seaweeds which form distinct zones (the wrack Pelvetia canalic...
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...
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...
IR.LIR.K.Slat.Ldig Saccharina latissima and Laminaria digitata on sheltered sublittoral fringe rock
Published date 2015-03Sheltered bedrock and boulders in the sublittoral fringe characterised by a mixed canopy of the kelp Laminaria digitata (usually in its broad-fronded cape-form) and Saccharina latissima - both species...
SS.SSa.OSa.OfusAfil Owenia fusiformis and Amphiura filiformis in offshore circalittoral sand or muddy sand
Published date 2015-03Areas of slightly muddy sand (generally Owenia fusiformis and Galathowenia sp., often with the brittlestar Amphiura filiformis. Whilst O. fusiformis is also found in other circalittoral or offshore b...