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Permanent inland saline and brackish lakes, ponds and pools

English name: Permanent inland saline and brackish lakes, ponds and pools

Description (English)

Non-coastal brackish, saline or hypersaline lakes, ponds or pools and their pelagic vertebrates and plankton.

Source:
EUNIS habitat classification
Interpretation Manual of the habitats targeted by Resolution No. 4

Quick facts

EUNIS habitat type	code C1.5
Bern Convention	Resolution 4 habitat type (used for designation of Emerald sites)
Relation to	Annex I habitat types (EU Habitats Directive)

Legal status

Mentioned in the following international legal instruments and agreements

Legal text	Annex	More information
Convention on the conservation of European wildlife and natural habitats (Bern Convention)	Revised Annex I of Resolution 4 (1996) of the Bern Convention on endangered natural habitats types using the EUNIS habitat classification (year of revision 2014)	https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc....ckColorLogged=FDC864 Resolution No. 4 (1996) of the Bern Convention lists endangered natural habitats requiring specific conservation measures [and the designation of Areas of Special Conservation Interest (ASCIs) forming the Emerald network]

Relation to other habitat types mentioned in legal instruments

Legal text	Annex	Name in legal text	Code in legal text	Habitat type relationship	More information
Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora - consolidated version 01/01/2007	Annex I: natural habitat types of community interest whose conservation requires the designation of special areas of conservation	Coastal lagoons	1150	Overlap	http://ec.europa.eu/environm...rective/index_en.htm

Vegetation types

Relation to vegetation types (syntaxa)

Name	Definition	Other names	Reference
Ruppion maritimae Br.-Bl. ex Westhoff in Bennema et al. 1943	Submerged rooted communities of brackish waters	Althenio-Ruppion Den Hartog 1981; Althenio-Ruppion Den Hartog 1985; Eleocharition parvulae Segal 1965; Eleocharition parvulae Segal 1968; Riellion parvulae Cirujano et al. 1993; Ruppion cirrhosae Lovric in Lovric et Rac 1987; Ruppion maritimae Br.-Bl. 1931; Ruppion maritimae Br.-Bl. et de Leeuw 1936; Ruppion maritimae Br.-Bl. ex Br.-Bl. et al. 1952; Ruppion maritimae Br.-Bl. ex Soó 1947; Riellion helicophyllae Cirujano et al. ex Rivas-Mart. et al.1999; Scirpion parvuli Segal 1968; Zannichellion pedunculatae Segal 1963 p.p.	Schaminee et al, 2012
Ranunculion aquatilis Passarge 1964	Vegetation of crosswort rooted macrophyte communities of shallow stagnant freshwaters temperate Europe	Lemno-Callitrichion Passarge 1992; Lemno-Callitrichion Passarge 1996; Ranunculion peltati Schaminée et al. 1990; Batrachion aquatilis Passarge 1964 nom. mut. propos.; Callitricho-Batrachion Den Hartog et Segal 1964 p.p.	Schaminee et al, 2012
Zannichellion pedicellatae Schaminée et al. 1990	diagnosis		Schaminee et al, 2012

Species mentioned in habitat description

Not available

Other classifications

Classification	Code	Habitat type name	Relationship type
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 200112	23.11	Salt basins and salt basin pelagic communities	wider
CORINE Land Cover	5.1.2.	Water bodies	n/a
HELCOM Baltic Sea Marine and Coastal Biotopes 1998	04.01.01	Coastal lakes: brackish	narrower
Ramsar Wetland Types	Q	Permanent saline/brackish/alkaline lakes	overlap
Phase 1 habitat classification (UK) 1993	G16	Standing water: brackish	narrower
National Vegetation Classification (UK)	SM2	Ruppia maritima salt-marsh community	overlap
National Vegetation Classification (UK)	A21	Ranunculus baudotii community	overlap

For relation to plant communities (syntaxa), see Vegetation types

History

Classification	Code	Habitat type name	Relationship type
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200410	C1.5	Permanent inland saline and brackish lakes, ponds and pools	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308	C1.5	Permanent inland saline and brackish lakes, ponds and pools	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202	C1.5	Permanent inland saline and brackish lakes, ponds and pools	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199910	C1.5	Permanent inland saline and brackish lakes, ponds and pools	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199811	C1.16	Inland saline and brackish water bodies	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199712	B2.11	Saline and brackish lakes and ponds	same
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 199905	23.11	Salt basins and salt basin pelagic communities	wider
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1997	23.11	Salt basins and salt basin pelagic communities	wider
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1996	23.11		wider
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1993	23.11		wider
CORINE Biotopes Classification 1991	23.11		wider
CORINE Biotopes Classification 1989	23.11		wider

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