Western Pontic solonetz hollows

English name: Western Pontic solonetz hollows

Description (English)

Communities dominated by grasses, chenopods or sea-lavenders, formed on solonetz or solonchak-solonetz soils in the rills of salt steppes and other inland saline flats subject to inundation and desiccation of the western Black Sea plain, as well as on the higher ground of western Black Sea coastal saltmarshes, with outposts in the lower Danube valley and the northern Thracian middle Maritsa and Tundzha basins.

Source: EUNIS habitat classification

Quick facts

EUNIS habitat type code E6.223
Bern Convention Included in a Resolution 4 habitat type at a higher level (E6.2)

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 15.A213 Western Pontic solonetz hollows source
For relation to plant communities (syntaxa), see Vegetation types

History

Classification Code Habitat type name Relationship type
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200410 E6.223 Western Pontic solonetz hollows same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308 E6.223 Western Pontic solonetz hollows same
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