Baltic hydrolittoral rock and boulders dominated by Fucus spp.
Description (English)
Baltic bottoms in the hydrolittoral zone (with level fluctuations due to tide or weather) with at least 90 % coverage of rock, boulders or stones of more than 63 mm in diameter. Perennial attached algae covers at least 10 % of the seabed, and more than other perennial attached erect groups. Out of the perennial attached algae Fucus spp. constitute at least 50 % of the biovolume.
Physical environment
Salinity range: >5; Exposure range: all, more common in exposed areas;
Characteristic species
Fucus radicans, F. serratus, F. vesiculosus
Quality descriptors
Lower limit of vegetation, amount of epiphytic algae
Geographic range
Baltic Sea up to the Quark in the north and central Gulf of Finland approximately to the Russian border in the east
Source: EUNIS habitat classification
Quick facts
EUNIS habitat type | code MA1311 |
---|---|
Relation to | Resolution 4 habitat type (used for designation of Emerald sites) |
Legal status
Relation to other habitat types mentioned in legal instruments
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) | A1.473 | Hydrolittoral solid rock (bedrock): reefs | narrower |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 2007 (revised descriptions 2012) | A1.472 | Hydrolittoral solid rock (bedrock): level bottoms dominated by macrophyte vegetation | overlap |
History
Classification | Code | Habitat type name | Relationship type | Comment |
---|---|---|---|---|
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200410 | A1.472 | Hydrolittoral solid rock (bedrock): level bottoms dominated by macrophyte vegetation | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200410 | A1.473 | Hydrolittoral solid rock (bedrock): reefs | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308 | A1.422 | Hydrolittoral solid rock (bedrock): level bottoms dominated by macrophyte vegetation | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308 | A1.423 | Hydrolittoral solid rock (bedrock): reefs | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202 | A1.423 | Hydrolittoral solid rock (bedrock): reefs | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202 | A1.422 | Hydrolittoral solid rock (bedrock): level bottoms dominated by macrophyte vegetation | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199910 | A1.423 | Hydrolittoral solid rock (bedrock): reefs | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199910 | A1.422 | Hydrolittoral solid rock (bedrock): level bottoms dominated by macrophyte vegetation | same |