Mediterranean halo-psammophile meadows
Description (English)
Drier, dense formations of sandy soils at the foot of dunes, or between dunes and lagoons of the Mediterranean and thermo-Atlantic coasts of Europe and North Africa, and of the endoreic (closed drainage) interior basins of Mediterranean Iberia, with Plantago crassifolia, Schoenus nigricans, Juncus littoralis, Spartina versicolor (Spartina patens, Spartina juncea), Elytrigia elongata, Limbarda crithmoides, all of which may dominate and form physiognomically distinct, sometimes almost monospecific, facies.
Source: EUNIS habitat classification
Quick facts
EUNIS habitat type | code MA2521 |
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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
Species scientific name | English common name | Species group |
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Elytrigia elongata | Flowering Plants | |
Juncus littoralis | Flowering Plants | |
Plantago crassifolia | Flowering Plants | |
Schoenus nigricans | Flowering Plants | |
Spartina juncea | Flowering Plants | |
Spartina patens | Flowering Plants | |
Spartina versicolor | Flowering Plants |
Other classifications
Classification | Code | Habitat type name | Relationship type |
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EUNIS Habitat Classification 2007 (revised descriptions 2012) | A2.532 | Mediterranean halo-psammophile meadows | same |
History
Classification | Code | Habitat type name | Relationship type | Comment |
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EUNIS Habitat Classification 200410 | A2.532 | Mediterranean halo-psammophile meadows | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308 | A2.632 | Mediterranean halo-psammophile meadows | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202 | A2.632 | Mediterranean halo-psammophile meadows | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199910 | A2.632 | Mediterranean halo-psammophile meadows | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199811 | A2.632 | Mediterranean halo-psammophile meadows | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199712 | B3.43 | Mediterranean halo-psammophile meadows | same | |
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 199905 | 15.53 | Mediterranean halo-psammophile meadows | same | |
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1997 | 15.53 | Mediterranean halo-psammophile meadows | same | |
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1996 | 15.53 | same | ||
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1993 | 15.53 | same | ||
CORINE Biotopes Classification 1991 | 15.53 | same | ||
CORINE Biotopes Classification 1989 | 15.153 | same |