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Limestone pavements
Published dateRocky habitats and caves Description and ecological characteristics Limestone pavements are outcrops of rock, typically horizontal or gently inclined, although a few are steeply inclined. The surface ...
Estuaries
Published dateMarine, coastal and halophytic habitats Description and ecological characteristics Estuaries are habitat complexes which comprise an interdependent mosaic of subtidal and intertidal habitats, which ar...
Atlantic decalcified fixed dunes (Calluno-Ulicetea)
Published dateCoastal sand dunes and continental dunes Description and ecological characteristics This habitat type occurs on mature, stable dunes where the initial calcium carbonate content of the dune sand is low...
Oligotrophic waters containing very few minerals of sandy plains (Littorelletalia uniflorae)
Published dateFreshwater habitats Description and ecological characteristics This type of waterbody is restricted to sandy plains that are acidic and low in nutrients, and are therefore very scarce. The water is ty...
Dunes with Hippophae rhamnoides
Published dateCoastal sand dunes and continental dunes Description and ecological characteristics Dunes with Hippophae rhamnoides comprise scrub vegetation on more-or-less stable sand dunes in which sea-buckthorn H...
Northern Atlantic wet heaths with Erica tetralix
Published dateTemperate heath and scrub Description and ecological characteristics Wet heath usually occurs on acidic, nutrient-poor substrates, such as shallow peats or sandy soils with impeded drainage. The veget...
Green shield-moss [Buxbaumia viridis]
Published dateLower plant species Description and ecological characteristics Green shield-moss Buxbaumia viridis is a highly-specialised and atypical moss with much-reduced leaves arising from a protonemal mat (i.e...
Atlantic acidophilous beech forests with Ilex and sometimes also Taxus in the shrublayer (Quercion robori-petraeae or Ilici-Fagenion)
Published dateForests Description and ecological characteristics This Annex I type comprises beech Fagus sylvatica forests with holly Ilex , growing on acid soils, in a humid Atlantic climate. Sites of this habitat...
Bog woodland
Published dateForests Description and ecological characteristics Under certain combinations of physical circumstances in the UK, scattered trees can occur across the surface of a bog in a relatively stable ecologic...
Studland to Portland
Published dateDesignated Special Area of Conservation (SAC) Country England Unitary Authority Extra-Regio Centroid * SY881728 Latitude 50.555 Longitude -2.168 SAC EU Code UK0030382 Status Designated Special Area of...