EUNIS habitat classification 2017 > M - Marine benthic habitats > MA5 - Littoral sand > MA55 - Mediterranean littoral sand > MA553 - Assemblages of Mediterranean mediolittoral muddy sands and muds in lagoons and estuaries biocenosis > MA5532 - Mediterranean mediolittoral sand facies of saltworks

Mediterranean mediolittoral sand facies of saltworks

Description (English)

Evaporative environments over sand and muddy sand in which water with low or normal salinity evaporates either in the summer period (northern Mediterranean: salterns) or the whole year round, except for the rainy season (in the eastern parts of the southern Mediterranean: bahiret, sebkha, chotts). Dessication may be total, with the production of

Source: EUNIS habitat classification

Quick facts

EUNIS habitat type	code MA5532
Relation to	Annex I habitat types (EU Habitats Directive)
Relation to	Resolution 4 habitat type (used for designation of Emerald sites)

Legal status

Relation to other habitat types mentioned in legal instruments

Legal text	Annex	Name in legal text	Code in legal text	Habitat type relationship	More information
Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora - consolidated version 01/01/2007	Annex I: natural habitat types of community interest whose conservation requires the designation of special areas of conservation	Large shallow inlets and bays	1160	Overlap	http://ec.europa.eu/environm...rective/index_en.htm
Convention on the conservation of European wildlife and natural habitats	Revised Annex I of Resolution 4 (1996) of the Bern Convention on endangered natural habitats types using the EUNIS habitat classification (year of revision 2010)	Littoral sand and muddy sand	A2.2	Narrower	https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc....ckColorLogged=FDC864 Resolution No. 4 (1996) of the Bern Convention lists endangered natural habitats requiring specific conservation measures [and the designation of Areas of Special Conservation Interest (ASCIs) forming the Emerald network]

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
EUNIS Habitat Classification 2007 (revised descriptions 2012)	A2.2	Littoral sand and muddy sand	narrower

For relation to plant communities (syntaxa), see Vegetation types

History

Classification	Code	Habitat type name	Relationship type
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200410	A2.2	Littoral sand and muddy sand	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308	A2.2	Littoral sand and muddy sand	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202	A2.2	Littoral sands and muddy sands	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199910	A2.2	Littoral sands and muddy sands	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199811	A2.2	Littoral sands and muddy sands	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199712	A2.2	Littoral muddy sands	same
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 199905	11.27	Part of Soft sediment littoral communities	wider
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 199905	14.1	Part of Mud flats and sand flats	wider
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1997	14	Part of Mud flats and sand flats	wider
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1997	11.27	Part of Soft sediment littoral communities	wider
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1996	14		wider
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1996	11.27		wider
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1993	11.27		wider
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1993	14		wider
CORINE Biotopes Classification 1991	14		wider
CORINE Biotopes Classification 1989	14		wider
MNCR BioMar 97.06 (Britain & Ireland)	LMS	Littoral muddy sands	same
MNCR BioMar 96.7 (Britain & Ireland)	LMS		same

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