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Sparsely- or un-vegetated habitats on mineral substrates not resulting from recent ice activity

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English name Sparsely- or un-vegetated habitats on mineral substrates not resulting from recent ice activity Open code browser    Diagram icon

EUNIS habitat type code   H5.3 Level   3
Edition   EUNIS Habitat Classification 2012 - a revision of the habitat classification descriptions.

Description ( English )

Accumulations of sand, boulders, stones, rock fragments, pebbles or gravels, unvegetated, occupied by lichens or mosses, or colonized by sparse herbs or shrubs. Included are inland dunes, moraines and drumlins originating from glacial deposition, sandar, eskers and kames resulting from fluvio-glacial deposition, block slopes, block streams and block fields constructed by periglacial depositional processes of downslope mass movement, ancient beach deposits constituted by former coastal constructional processes. Excludes mobile screes (H2) and deposits originating from eruptive volcanic activity (H6).

Source

Davies, C.E., Moss, D. & Hill, M.O. (2004)

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Relationships with other classifications

Classification Code Title Relation type
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200410 H5.3 Sparsely- or un-vegetated habitats on mineral substrates not resulting from recent ice activity same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308 H5.3 Sparsely- or un-vegetated habitats on mineral substrates not resulting from recent ice activity same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202 H5.3 Sparsely- or un-vegetated habitats on mineral substrates not resulting from recent ice activity same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199910 H5.3 Clay, silt, sand and gravel habitats with very sparse or no vegetation same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199811 H5.1 Clay, silt, sand and gravel habitats with very sparse or no vegetation same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199712 H5.1 Unvegetated mud, sand and gravel same
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 200112 61 Screes, gravel and boulder fields wider
CORINE Land Cover 3.3.1. Beaches, dunes, and sand plains n/a
Phase 1 habitat classification (UK) 1993 J4 Bare ground wider
Milieux Naturels de Suisse 1998 7.1.0 Terrain piétiné et décombres dépourvus de végétation overlap
Milieux Naturels de Suisse 1998 2.4 Tourbière narrower
  H Inland unvegetated or sparsely vegetated habitats Go to key navigator, starting with this habitat    Ancestor
  H5 Miscellaneous inland habitats with very sparse or no vegetation Go to key navigator, starting with this habitat    Parent
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