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Los Alcornocales

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Source and more information: Natura 2000 Standard Data Form


Species


List

Species summary

Nature directives' species in this site (74)
Species group Number
Amphibians 1
Birds 50
Ferns 1
Fishes 1
Flowering Plants 4
Invertebrates 5
Mammals 10
Reptiles 2

Habitat types

Habitat type code Habitat type english name Cover [ha]
1210 Annual vegetation of drift lines 0.8
1310 Salicornia and other annuals colonizing mud and sand 5.93
2120 Shifting dunes along the shoreline with Ammophila arenaria ('white dunes') 0.14
2190 Humid dune slacks 13.95
2230 Malcolmietalia dune grasslands 0.14
2250 Coastal dunes with Juniperus spp 0.37
2260 Cisto-Lavenduletalia dune sclerophyllous scrubs 1137.23
3110 Oligotrophic waters containing very few minerals of sandy plains (Littorelletalia uniflorae) 0.05
3140 Hard oligo-mesotrophic waters with benthic vegetation of Chara spp 8.17
3170 Mediterranean temporary ponds 78
3260 Water courses of plain to montane levels with the Ranunculion fluitantis and Callitricho-Batrachion vegetation 2.73
3270 Rivers with muddy banks with Chenopodion rubri pp and Bidention pp vegetation 4.62
3280 Constantly flowing Mediterranean rivers with Paspalo-Agrostidion species and hanging curtains of Salix and Populus alba 8.33
3290 Intermittently flowing Mediterranean rivers of the Paspalo-Agrostidion 5.07
4020 Temperate Atlantic wet heaths with Erica ciliaris and Erica tetralix 24.75
4030 European dry heaths 31222.7
5110 Stable xero-thermophilous formations with Buxus sempervirens on rock slopes (Berberidion pp) 331.41
5210 Arborescent matorral with Juniperus spp 62.12
5330 Thermo-Mediterranean and pre-desert scrub 40546.7
6220 Pseudo-steppe with grasses and annuals of the Thero-Brachypodietea 43355.9
6310 Dehesas with evergreen Quercus spp 29504.1
6420 Mediterranean tall humid grasslands of the Molinio-Holoschoenion 1.43
7220 Petrifying springs with tufa formation (Cratoneurion) 2.87
8130 Western Mediterranean and thermophilous scree 1.83
8210 Calcareous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation 0.29
8220 Siliceous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation 187.8
8310 Caves not open to the public 2.76
91B0 Thermophilous Fraxinus angustifolia woods 486.77
91E0 Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Padion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae) 1228.29
9230 Galicio-Portuguese oak woods with Quercus robur and Quercus pyrenaica 16.25
9240 Quercus faginea and Quercus canariensis Iberian woods 9471.22
92A0 Salix alba and Populus alba galleries 165.9
92B0 Riparian formations on intermittent Mediterranean water courses with Rhododendron ponticum, Salix and others 424.44
92D0 Southern riparian galleries and thickets (Nerio-Tamaricetea and Securinegion tinctoriae) 607.06
9320 Olea and Ceratonia forests 5138.24
9330 Quercus suber forests 46479.6
9340 Quercus ilex and Quercus rotundifolia forests 113.12

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) Under Birds directive
  • Date classified as Special Protection Area (SPA)
Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 CET 1989
 
Habitats Directive 92/43/EEC (SCI) Under Habitats directive
  • Date proposed as Site of Community Importance (SCI)
Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 CET 2003
  • Date confirmed as Site of Community Importance
Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 CEST 2006
 
Date designated as Special Area of Conservation (SAC) Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 CEST 2012
 
Date of Standard data form update Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 CEST 2020

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