EUNIS habitat classification 2017 > M - Marine benthic habitats > MA6 - Littoral mud > MA65 - Mediterranean littoral mud > MA651 - Assemblages of Mediterranean littoral muddy sands and muds in lagoons and estuaries biocenosis > MA6512 - Mediterranean mediolittoral mud facies of saltworks

Mediterranean mediolittoral mud facies of saltworks

Description (English)

Evaporative environments over mud 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 MA6512
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
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)	Estuaries	1130	Overlap	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]
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)	Large shallow inlets and bays	1160	Overlap	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]
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 mud	A2.3	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)	A2.3	Littoral mud	narrower

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

History

Classification	Code	Habitat type name	Relationship type
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200410	A2.3	Littoral mud	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308	A2.3	Littoral mud	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202	A2.3	Littoral muds	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199910	A2.3	Littoral muds	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199811	A2.3	Littoral muds	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199712	A2.3	Littoral muds	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)	LMU	Littoral muds	same
MNCR BioMar 96.7 (Britain & Ireland)	LMU		same

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