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Arctic offshore circalittoral mixed sediment

Description (English)

Arctic offshore (deep) circalittoral habitats with slightly muddy mixed gravelly sand and stones or shell. This habitat may cover large areas of the offshore continental shelf although there is relatively little data available.

Source: EUNIS habitat classification

Quick facts

EUNIS habitat type	code MD41
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)	Sublittoral sediment	A5	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)	A5.45	Deep circalittoral mixed sediments	narrower
EUNIS Habitat Classification 2007 (revised descriptions 2012)	A5	Sublittoral sediment	narrower
EUNIS Habitat Classification 2007 (revised descriptions 2012)	A5.4	Sublittoral mixed sediments	narrower

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

History

Classification	Code	Habitat type name	Relationship type
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200410	A5.4	Sublittoral mixed sediments	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200410	A5.45	Deep mixed sediments	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200410	A5	Sublittoral sediment	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308	A4	Sublittoral sediment	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308	A4.75	Animal communities of deep circalittoral mixed sediment bottoms	narrower
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308	A4.4	Sublittoral mixed sediment	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308	A4.76	Communities of shelf-edge detritic bottom	narrower
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202	A4.75	Animal communities of deep circalittoral mixed sediment bottoms	narrower
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202	A4.76	Communities of shelf-edge detritic bottom	narrower
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202	A4	Sublittoral sediments	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202	A4.75	Animal communities of deep circalittoral mixed sediment bottoms	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202	A4.4	Sublittoral combination sediments	narrower
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199910	A4.72	Biocenosis of shelf-edge detritic bottom	narrower
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199910	A4	Sublittoral sediments	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199910	A4.4	Sublittoral mixed sediments	narrower
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199811	A4	Sublittoral sediments	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199712	X16	Sublittoral sediments	same
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 199905	11.22	Sublittoral soft seabeds	narrower
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 199905	11.23	Sublittoral pebbly seabeds	narrower
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1997	11.23	Sublittoral pebbly seabeds	narrower
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1997	11.22	Sublittoral soft seabeds	narrower
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1996	11.23		narrower
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1996	11.22		narrower
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1993	11.22		narrower
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1993	11.23		narrower
CORINE Biotopes Classification 1991	11.23		narrower
CORINE Biotopes Classification 1991	11.22		narrower
MNCR BioMar 97.06 (Britain & Ireland)	SS	Sublittoral sediments	same

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