Habitat types key navigation
You can use the 'key navigation' function to identify a specific habitat by answering a set of questions. Starting from first question to next questions you select one of the possible answers. Here are samples of possible answers:-
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[ E6 ] - Links directly to factsheet for E6
Category : (B1 )Coastal dunes and sandy shores
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b01
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Wind-blown sand over peat?
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| Machair (characterised by wind-blown calcareous sand with a predominance of shell fragments usually over peat, a low proportion of sand-binding vegetation and a long history of agricultural use) (path = Yes), is distinguished from other coastal sand habitats. Note that a machair complex is defined comprising units from B1, C and I. | ||
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b02
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Surface topography
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| The topography of the surface distinguishes the abrupt mounds and hollows of sand dunes from more or less level sand beach habitats. | ||
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b03
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Humidity
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| Dry sand dunes are distinguished from moist or wet dune slacks including dune slack pools. | ||
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b04
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Mobile?
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| Unvegetated mobile sand dunes (path = Yes) are separated from dunes which have become stabilised by vegetation. | ||
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b05
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Vegetation stratum
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| Predominant vegetation type is used to distinguish between: dune grassland (herbs); dune heath (predominantly ericaceous dwarf shrubs); dune scrub (shrubs); and dune woodland (trees). | ||||
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b06
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Above driftline?
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| Driftline habitats characterised by lines of wave-deposited organic material colonised by annual angiosperms are distinguished (path = No) from mobile sand beaches above the driftline. Note that freshly deposited driftlines characterised by marine invertebrates and without annual vegetation are included in A2. | ||
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