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Source and more information: Natura 2000 Standard Data Form


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Nature directives' species in this site (47)
Species group Number
Birds 41
Flowering Plants 2
Invertebrates 1
Mammals 2
Mosses & Liverworts 1

Habitat types

Habitat type code Habitat type english name Cover [ha]
3110 Oligotrophic waters containing very few minerals of sandy plains (Littorelletalia uniflorae) 1800
3160 Natural dystrophic lakes and ponds 157.883
3210 Fennoscandian natural rivers 2052
3220 Alpine rivers and the herbaceous vegetation along their banks 12.646
3260 Water courses of plain to montane levels with the Ranunculion fluitantis and Callitricho-Batrachion vegetation 91.175
4060 Alpine and Boreal heaths 12200
4080 Sub-Arctic Salix spp scrub 1
6150 Siliceous alpine and boreal grasslands 192.82
6270 Fennoscandian lowland species-rich dry to mesic grasslands 6
6450 Northern boreal alluvial meadows 1
7110 Active raised bogs 53.128
7140 Transition mires and quaking bogs 5217.05
7160 Fennoscandian mineral-rich springs and springfens 22.876
7220 Petrifying springs with tufa formation (Cratoneurion) 0.1
7230 Alkaline fens 446.098
7310 Aapa mires 1700
7320 Palsa mires 242.496
8110 Siliceous scree of the montane to snow levels (Androsacetalia alpinae and Galeopsietalia ladani) 0.285
8220 Siliceous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation 175.435
9010 Western Taïga 27600
9040 Nordic subalpine/subarctic forests with Betula pubescens ssp czerepanovii 5400
9050 Fennoscandian herb-rich forests with Picea abies 200
9060 Coniferous forests on, or connected to, glaciofluvial eskers 950
9080 Fennoscandian deciduous swamp woods 10.081
91D0 Bog woodland 2100
91E0 Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Padion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae) 35

Designation information

NATURA 2000 is the ecological network for the conservation of wild animals and plant species and natural habitats of Community importance within the Union. It consists of sites classified under the Birds Directive and the Habitats Directive (the Nature Directives).

NATURA 2000 site under

Birds Directive 2009/147/EC (SPA) Under Birds directive
  • Date classified as Special Protection Area (SPA)
 Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 CEST 2005
 
Habitats Directive 92/43/EEC (SCI) Under Habitats directive
  • Date proposed as Site of Community Importance (SCI)
 Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 CEST 1998
  • Date confirmed as Site of Community Importance
 Not available
 
Date designated as Special Area of Conservation (SAC) Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 CEST 2015
 
Date of Standard data form update Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 CET 2018

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