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Récifs et marais arrière-littoraux du Cap Lévi à la Pointe de Saire

Quick facts

  • Natura 2000 site (code FR2500085)
  • Under Habitats Directive
  • Since December 1997
  • Country: France
  • Administrative region: Basse-Normandie (FR25)
  • Surface area: 154 km2 (15385.00 ha)
  • Marine area: 96%
  • Located in Atlantic biogeographical region
  • It protects 9 species of the Nature Directives
  • It protects 23 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 (9)
Species group Number
Amphibians 1
Invertebrates 1
Mammals 7

Habitat types

Habitat type code Habitat type english name Cover [ha]
1110 Sandbanks which are slightly covered by sea water all the time 4158.81
1140 Mudflats and sandflats not covered by seawater at low tide 134.01
1170 Reefs 5082.99
1210 Annual vegetation of drift lines 0.92
1220 Perennial vegetation of stony banks 7.7
1230 Vegetated sea cliffs of the Atlantic and Baltic Coasts 9.24
1310 Salicornia and other annuals colonizing mud and sand 4.62
1330 Atlantic salt meadows (Glauco-Puccinellietalia maritimae) 16.94
1410 Mediterranean salt meadows (Juncetalia maritimi) 4.62
2110 Embryonic shifting dunes 6.16
2120 Shifting dunes along the shoreline with Ammophila arenaria ('white dunes') 10.78
2130 Fixed coastal dunes with herbaceous vegetation ('grey dunes') 32.35
2190 Humid dune slacks 0.15
3110 Oligotrophic waters containing very few minerals of sandy plains (Littorelletalia uniflorae) 0.62
4030 European dry heaths 204.86
6230 Species-rich Nardus grasslands, on silicious substrates in mountain areas (and submountain areas in Continental Europe) 4.62
6410 Molinia meadows on calcareous, peaty or clayey-silt-laden soils (Molinion caeruleae) 7.7
6430 Hydrophilous tall herb fringe communities of plains and of the montane to alpine levels 7.7
6510 Lowland hay meadows (Alopecurus pratensis, Sanguisorba officinalis) 1.54
7230 Alkaline fens 6.21
9120 Atlantic acidophilous beech forests with Ilex and sometimes also Taxus in the shrublayer (Quercion robori-petraeae or Ilici-Fagenion) 6.16
9130 Asperulo-Fagetum beech forests 53.41
91E0 Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Padion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae) 0

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)
December 1997
  • Date confirmed as Site of Community Importance
January 2011
 
Date designated as Special Area of Conservation (SAC) October 2014
 
Date of Standard data form update July 2019

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