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Dunes with Hippophae rhamnoides

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Coastal 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

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Temperate 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]

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Lower 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)

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Forests 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

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Forests 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

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Designated 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...

Thursley, Ash, Pirbright and Chobham

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Designated Special Area of Conservation (SAC) Country England Unitary Authority Surrey, East and West Sussex Centroid * SU914411 Latitude 51.1617 Longitude -0.6931 SAC EU Code UK0012793 Status Designa...

Grey seal [Halichoerus grypus]

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Vertebrate species: mammals Description and ecological characteristics Grey seals Halichoerus grypus spend most of the year at sea, and may range widely in search of prey. They come ashore in autumn t...

Round-mouthed whorl snail [Vertigo genesii]

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Invertebrate species: molluscs Description and ecological characteristics The round-mouthed whorl snail Vertigo genesii is a tiny boreal and alpine species. In the UK, it is found in calcareous flushe...

Petalwort [Petalophyllum ralfsii]

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Lower plant species Description and ecological characteristics Petalwort Petalophyllum ralfsii is a pale green thalloid liverwort with erect lamellae on its upper surface, that grows in open, damp, ca...