Coastal habitats
Description (English)
Coastal habitats are those above spring high tide limit (or above mean water level in non-tidal waters) occupying coastal features and characterised by their proximity to the sea, including coastal dunes and wooded coastal dunes, beaches and cliffs. Includes free-draining supralittoral habitats adjacent to marine habitats which are normally only very rarely subject to any type of salt water, in as much as they may be inhabited predominantly by terrestrial species, strandlines characterised by terrestrial invertebrates and moist and wet coastal dune slacks and dune-slack pools. Supralittoral sands and wracks may be found also in marine habitats (M). Excludes supralittoral rock pools and habitats, the splash zone immediately above the mean water line, as well the spray zone and zone subject to sporadic inundation with salt water in as much as it may be inhabited predominantly by marine species, which are included in marine (M).
Source: EUNIS habitat classification
Quick facts
| EUNIS habitat type | code N |
|---|
Vegetation types
Relation to vegetation types (syntaxa)
Not availableSpecies mentioned in habitat description
Other classifications
| Classification | Code | Habitat type name | Relationship type |
|---|---|---|---|
| EUNIS Habitat Classification 2007 (revised descriptions 2012) | B | Coastal habitats | narrower |
History
| Classification | Code | Habitat type name | Relationship type | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EUNIS Habitat Classification 200410 | B | Coastal habitats | same | |
| EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308 | B | Coastal habitats | same | |
| EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202 | B | Coastal habitats | same | |
| EUNIS Habitat Classification 199910 | B | Coastal habitats | same | |
| EUNIS Habitat Classification 199811 | B | Coastal habitats | same | |
| EUNIS Habitat Classification 199712 | B | Coastal and halophytic habitats | same | |
| Palaearctic Habitat Classification 199905 | 1 | Part of Coastal and halophytic communities | wider | |
| Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1997 | 1 | Part of Coastal and halophytic communities | wider | |
| Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1996 | 1 | wider | ||
| Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1993 | 1 | wider | ||
| CORINE Biotopes Classification 1991 | 1 | wider | ||
| CORINE Biotopes Classification 1989 | 1 | wider |
