Salt basins and salt basin pelagic communities

English name: Salt basins and salt basin pelagic communities

Description (English)

Athalassic (inland) brackish, saline or hypersaline lakes, ponds or pools and their pelagic animal, green algal or lower algal communities, including marine mammal, bird and pelagic fish communities of the large inland seas of central Eurasia and of the big brackish lakes of the boreal zone.

Source: EUNIS habitat classification

Quick facts

EUNIS habitat type code C1.511
Bern Convention Included in a Resolution 4 habitat type at a higher level (C1.5)

Vegetation types

Relation to vegetation types (syntaxa)

Not available

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

History

Classification Code Habitat type name Relationship type
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200410 C1.511 Salt basins and salt basin pelagic communities same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308 C1.511 Salt basins and salt basin pelagic communities same
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