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L'Albera

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Source and more information: Natura 2000 Standard Data Form


Species


List

Species summary

Nature directives' species in this site (69)
Species group Number
Birds 50
Fishes 1
Invertebrates 6
Mammals 10
Reptiles 2

Habitat types

Habitat type code Habitat type english name Cover [ha]
1120 Posidonia beds (Posidonion oceanicae) 2.83
1170 Reefs 1.9
1240 Vegetated sea cliffs of the Mediterranean coasts with endemic Limonium spp 50.476
2110 Embryonic shifting dunes 0.037
2120 Shifting dunes along the shoreline with Ammophila arenaria ('white dunes') 0.184
3170 Mediterranean temporary ponds 0.13
3250 Constantly flowing Mediterranean rivers with Glaucium flavum 0.512
3260 Water courses of plain to montane levels with the Ranunculion fluitantis and Callitricho-Batrachion vegetation 1.81
3270 Rivers with muddy banks with Chenopodion rubri pp and Bidention pp vegetation 0.973
3290 Intermittently flowing Mediterranean rivers of the Paspalo-Agrostidion 0.354
6420 Mediterranean tall humid grasslands of the Molinio-Holoschoenion 2.006
6510 Lowland hay meadows (Alopecurus pratensis, Sanguisorba officinalis) 1.92
8130 Western Mediterranean and thermophilous scree 2.649
8220 Siliceous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation 269.466
9120 Atlantic acidophilous beech forests with Ilex and sometimes also Taxus in the shrublayer (Quercion robori-petraeae or Ilici-Fagenion) 475.912
91E0 Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Padion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae) 85.466
9260 Castanea sativa woods 81.212
92A0 Salix alba and Populus alba galleries 5.576
92D0 Southern riparian galleries and thickets (Nerio-Tamaricetea and Securinegion tinctoriae) 51.768
9330 Quercus suber forests 1991.58
9340 Quercus ilex and Quercus rotundifolia forests 2120.79
9380 Forests of Ilex aquifolium 0.01
9540 Mediterranean pine forests with endemic Mesogean pines 164.694

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)
Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 CET 2005
 
Habitats Directive 92/43/EEC (SCI) Under Habitats directive
  • Date proposed as Site of Community Importance (SCI)
Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 CET 1997
  • Date confirmed as Site of Community Importance
Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 CEST 2006
 
Date designated as Special Area of Conservation (SAC) Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 CET 2014
 
Date of Standard data form update Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 CEST 2021

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