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Temperate Atlantic wet heaths with Erica ciliaris and Erica tetralix
Published dateTemperate heath and scrub Description and ecological characteristics Heathlands containing cross-leaved heath Erica tetralix and the nationally rare Dorset heath E. ciliaris are generally found on aci...
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...
CR.HCR.XFa.CvirCri Corynactis viridis and a mixed turf of crisiids, Bugula, Scrupocellaria, and Cellaria on moderately tide-swept exposed circalittoral rock
Published date 2015-03This biotope typically occurs on wave-exposed, vertical or steep, circalittoral bedrock or large boulders, usually subject to moderate or strong tidal streams. It is characterised by dense aggregation...
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...
LR.FLR.Eph.EphX Ephemeral green and red seaweeds on variable salinity and/or disturbed eulittoral mixed substrata
Published date 2015-03Eulittoral mixed substrata (pebbles and cobbles overlying sand or mud) that are subject to variations in salinity and/or siltation, characterised by dense blankets of ephemeral green and red seaweeds....
LR.FLR.Rkp.Cor Coralline crust-dominated shallow eulittoral rockpools
Published date 2015-03Shallow and smaller rockpools throughout the eulittoral zone in a wide range of wave exposures characterised by a covering of encrusting coralline algae on which Corallina officinalis often forms a de...
IR.FIR Features of infralittoral rock
Published date 2015-03Only one biotope complex is currently found within the infralittoral rock features habitat complex: Surge Gulleys (SG). Surge Gulleys features are found throughout the infralittoral rock zone, and usu...
SS.SMx.SMxVS Sublittoral mixed sediment in variable salinity (estuaries)
Published date 2015-03Shallow sublittoral mixed sediments in estuarine conditions, often with surface shells or stones, enabling the development of diverse epifaunal communities, e.g. Crepidula fornicata (SS.SMx.SMxVS.CreM...
LS.LMx.GvMu.HedMx.Str Hediste diversicolor and Streblospio shrubsolii in littoral gravelly sandy mud
Published date 2015-03Extremely sheltered gravelly sandy mud, subject to variable salinity, on the mid and lower shore. The infaunal community consists of the ragworm Hediste diversicolor, Pygospio elegans, Streblospio shr...
SS.SMx.IMx Infralittoral mixed sediment
Published date 2015-03Shallow mixed (heterogeneous) sediments in fully marine or near fully marine conditions, supporting various animal-dominated communities, with relatively low proportions of seaweeds. This habitat may ...