Revision of habitat descriptions originating from Devillers et al (2001)

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Title Revision of habitat descriptions originating from Devillers et al (2001)
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Source Hill, M.O., Moss, D. & Davies, C.E. [edited ETC/BD]
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Created 2001-01-01
Publisher European Topic Centre on Nature Protection and Biodiversity, Paris

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A7.84 Abyssopelagic zone in unstratified full salinity water
A8.11 Seasonal pack-ice
B1 Coastal dunes and sandy shores
B1.1 Sand beach driftlines
B1.2 Sand beaches above the driftline
B1.4 Coastal stable dune grassland (grey dunes)
B1.7 Coastal dune woods
B1.8 Moist and wet dune slacks
B2.1 Shingle beach driftlines
B2.3 Upper shingle beaches with open vegetation
B2.4 Fixed shingle beaches, with herbaceous vegetation
B2.5 Shingle and gravel beaches with scrub
B2.6 Shingle and gravel beach woodland
B3 Rock cliffs, ledges and shores, including the supralittoral
B3.1 Supralittoral rock (lichen or splash zone)
B3.2 Unvegetated rock cliffs, ledges, shores and islets
B3.3 Rock cliffs, ledges and shores, with angiosperms
B3.4 Soft sea-cliffs, often vegetated
C1 Surface standing waters
C1.2 Permanent mesotrophic lakes, ponds and pools
C1.3 Permanent eutrophic lakes, ponds and pools
C1.5 Permanent inland saline and brackish lakes, ponds and pools
C1.6 Temporary lakes, ponds and pools
C2.1 Springs, spring brooks and geysers
C2.2 Permanent non-tidal, fast, turbulent watercourses
C2.3 Permanent non-tidal, smooth-flowing watercourses
C2.4 Tidal rivers, upstream from the estuary
C2.5 Temporary running waters
C3.2 Water-fringing reedbeds and tall helophytes other than canes
C3.3 Water-fringing beds of tall canes
C3.5 Periodically inundated shores with pioneer and ephemeral vegetation
D1.1 Raised bogs
D1.2 Blanket bogs
D2 Valley mires, poor fens and transition mires
D2.2 Poor fens and soft-water spring mires
D3 Aapa, palsa and polygon mires
D3.1 Palsa mires
D3.2 Aapa mires
D3.3 Polygon mires
D4 Base-rich fens and calcareous spring mires
D4.1 Rich fens, including eutrophic tall-herb fens and calcareous flushes and soaks
D5.1 Reedbeds normally without free-standing water
D5.3 Swamps and marshes dominated by Juncus effusus or other large Juncus spp.
D6.1 Inland saltmarshes
E1.1 Inland sand and rock with open vegetation
E1.4 Mediterranean tall-grass and Artemisia steppes
E1.6 Subnitrophilous annual grassland
E1.7 Closed non-Mediterranean dry acid and neutral grassland
E1.C Dry mediterranean lands with unpalatable non-vernal herbaceous vegetation
E2 Mesic grasslands
E2.1 Permanent mesotrophic pastures and aftermath-grazed meadows
E2.2 Low and medium altitude hay meadows
E2.3 Mountain hay meadows
E2.4 Iberian summer pastures (vallicares)
E2.5 Meadows of the steppe zone
E3 Seasonally wet and wet grasslands
E3.1 Mediterranean tall humid grassland
E3.3 Sub-mediterranean humid meadows
E3.5 Moist or wet oligotrophic grassland
E4 Alpine and subalpine grasslands
E4.1 Vegetated snow-patch
E4.3 Acid alpine and subalpine grassland
E4.4 Calcareous alpine and subalpine grassland
E4.5 Alpine and subalpine enriched grassland
E5.2 Thermophile woodland fringes
E5.4 Moist or wet tall-herb and fern fringes and meadows
E5.5 Subalpine moist or wet tall-herb and fern stands
E6.1 Mediterranean inland salt steppes
E6.2 Continental inland salt steppes
E7.3 Dehesa
F1 Tundra
F1.1 Shrub tundra
F1.2 Moss and lichen tundra
F2.1 Subarctic and alpine dwarf willow scrub
F2.2 Evergreen alpine and subalpine heath and scrub
F2.3 Subalpine deciduous scrub
F2.4 Conifer scrub close to the tree limit
F3 Temperate and mediterranean-montane scrub
F3.1 Temperate thickets and scrub
F3.2 Submediterranean deciduous thickets and brushes
F4 Temperate shrub heathland
F4.1 Wet heaths
F4.2 Dry heaths
F5 Maquis, arborescent matorral and thermo-Mediterranean brushes
F5.1 Arborescent matorral
F5.3 Pseudomaquis
F5.4 Spartium junceum fields
F5.5 Thermo-Mediterranean scrub
F6 Garrigue
F6.1 Western garrigues
F6.2 Eastern garrigues
F6.3 Illyrian garrigues
F6.4 Black Sea garrigues
F6.6 Supra-Mediterranean garrigues
F6.7 Mediterranean gypsum scrubs
F6.8 Xero-halophile scrubs
F7.4 Hedgehog-heaths
F8 Thermo-Atlantic xerophytic scrub
F9.2 Salix carr and fen scrub
F9.3 Southern riparian galleries and thickets
FA Hedgerows
FB Shrub plantations
FB.4 Vineyards
G1.6 Fagus woodland
G1.7 Thermophilous deciduous woodland
G1.B Non-riverine Alnus woodland
G1.C Highly artificial broadleaved deciduous forestry plantations
G1.D Fruit and nut tree orchards
G2 Broadleaved evergreen woodland
G2.2 Eurasian continental sclerophyllous woodland
G2.3 Macaronesian Laurus woodland
G2.4 Olea europaea - Ceratonia siliqua woodland
G2.6 Ilex aquifolium woods
G2.7 Canary Island heath woodland
G2.8 Highly artificial broadleaved evergreen forestry plantations
G3.4 Pinus sylvestris woodland south of the taiga
G3.7 Lowland to montane mediterranean Pinus woodland (excluding Pinus nigra)
G3.9 Coniferous woodland dominated by Cupressaceae or Taxaceae
G3.A Picea taiga woodland
G3.B Pinus taiga woodland
G3.C Larix taiga woodland
G3.D Boreal bog conifer woodland
G3.E Nemoral bog conifer woodland
G3.F Highly artificial coniferous plantations
G4 Mixed deciduous and coniferous woodland
G4.6 Mixed Abies - Picea - Fagus woodland
G4.C Mixed Pinus sylvestris - thermophilous Quercus woodland
G5.1 Lines of trees
G5.8 Recently felled areas
H1 Terrestrial underground caves, cave systems, passages and waterbodies
H1.4 Lava tubes
H2 Screes
H2.1 Cold siliceous screes
H2.2 Cold limestone screes
H2.3 Temperate-montane acid siliceous screes
H2.4 Temperate-montane calcareous and ultra-basic screes
H2.5 Acid siliceous screes of warm exposures
H3 Inland cliffs, rock pavements and outcrops
H3.1 Acid siliceous inland cliffs
H3.2 Basic and ultra-basic inland cliffs
H3.5 Almost bare rock pavements, including limestone pavements
H3.6 Weathered rock and outcrop habitats
H4.1 Snow packs
H5 Miscellaneous inland habitats with very sparse or no vegetation
H5.3 Sparsely- or un-vegetated habitats on mineral substrates not resulting from recent ice activity
H5.37 Boulder fields
H6.1 Active volcanic features
I1 Arable land and market gardens
I1.2 Mixed crops of market gardens and horticulture
I1.3 Arable land with unmixed crops grown by low-intensity agricultural methods
I1.5 Bare tilled, fallow or recently abandoned arable land
I2.1 Large-scale ornamental garden areas
J1.1 Residential buildings of city and town centres
J2.4 Agricultural constructions
J3.1 Active underground mines
J5.3 Highly artificial non-saline standing waters
J5.4 Highly artificial non-saline running waters
J6.5 Industrial waste
X01 Estuaries
X02 Saline coastal lagoons
X05 Snow patches
X06 Crops shaded by trees
X07 Intensively-farmed crops interspersed with strips of natural and/or semi-natural vegetation
X10 Mosaic landscapes with a woodland element (bocages)
X11 Large parks
X18 Wooded steppe
X19 Wooded tundra
X20 Treeline ecotones
X22 Small city centre non-domestic gardens
X29 Salt lake islands
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