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Vennen, heiden en moerassen rond Turnhout

Quick facts

  • Natura 2000 site (code BE2100024)
  • Under Habitats Directive
  • Since January 1900
  • Country: Belgium
  • Administrative region: Prov. Antwerpen (BE21)
  • Surface area: 36 km2 (3627.00 ha)
  • Marine area: 0%
  • Located in Atlantic biogeographical region
  • It protects 6 species of the Nature Directives
  • It protects 18 habitat types of the Habitats Directive

Source and more information: Natura 2000 Standard Data Form


Species


List

Species summary

Nature directives' species in this site (6)
Species group Number
Amphibians 1
Fishes 2
Flowering Plants 1
Invertebrates 1
Mammals 1

Habitat types

Habitat type code Habitat type english name Cover [ha]
2310 Dry sand heaths with Calluna and Genista 25
2330 Inland dunes with open Corynephorus and Agrostis grasslands 24
3110 Oligotrophic waters containing very few minerals of sandy plains (Littorelletalia uniflorae) 2.5
3130 Oligotrophic to mesotrophic standing waters with vegetation of the Littorelletea uniflorae and/or of the Isoeto-Nanojuncetea 41
3150 Natural eutrophic lakes with Magnopotamion or Hydrocharition -type vegetation 21
3160 Natural dystrophic lakes and ponds 1.9
3260 Water courses of plain to montane levels with the Ranunculion fluitantis and Callitricho-Batrachion vegetation 0.04
4010 Northern Atlantic wet heaths with Erica tetralix 149
4030 European dry heaths 76
6230 Species-rich Nardus grasslands, on silicious substrates in mountain areas (and submountain areas in Continental Europe) 53
6410 Molinia meadows on calcareous, peaty or clayey-silt-laden soils (Molinion caeruleae) 5.1
7140 Transition mires and quaking bogs 18
7150 Depressions on peat substrates of the Rhynchosporion 2
7230 Alkaline fens 0.5
9120 Atlantic acidophilous beech forests with Ilex and sometimes also Taxus in the shrublayer (Quercion robori-petraeae or Ilici-Fagenion) 4
9160 Sub-Atlantic and medio-European oak or oak-hornbeam forests of the Carpinion betuli 3.1
9190 Old acidophilous oak woods with Quercus robur on sandy plains 21
91E0 Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Padion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae) 93

Designation information

NATURA 2000 is the ecological network for the conservation of wild animals and plant species and natural habitats of Community importance within the Union. It consists of sites classified under the Birds Directive and the Habitats Directive (the Nature Directives).

NATURA 2000 site under

Birds Directive 2009/147/EC (SPA) Not under Birds directive
 
Habitats Directive 92/43/EEC (SCI) Under Habitats directive
  • Date proposed as Site of Community Importance (SCI)
May 2002
  • Date confirmed as Site of Community Importance
December 2004
 
Date designated as Special Area of Conservation (SAC) April 2014
 
Date of Standard data form update September 2015

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