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Hautes Vosges

Quick facts

  • Natura 2000 site (code FR4201807)
  • Under Habitats Directive
  • Since June 2004
  • Country: France
  • Administrative region: Alsace (FR42)
  • Surface area: 90 km2 (9002.00 ha)
  • Marine area: 0%
  • Located in Continental biogeographical region
  • It protects 8 species of the Nature Directives
  • It protects 21 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 (8)
Species group Number
Fishes 2
Mammals 4
Mosses & Liverworts 2

Habitat types

Habitat type code Habitat type english name Cover [ha]
3160 Natural dystrophic lakes and ponds 90.02
3260 Water courses of plain to montane levels with the Ranunculion fluitantis and Callitricho-Batrachion vegetation 90.02
4030 European dry heaths 360.08
6230 Species-rich Nardus grasslands, on silicious substrates in mountain areas (and submountain areas in Continental Europe) 1620.36
6410 Molinia meadows on calcareous, peaty or clayey-silt-laden soils (Molinion caeruleae) 90.02
6430 Hydrophilous tall herb fringe communities of plains and of the montane to alpine levels 90.02
6510 Lowland hay meadows (Alopecurus pratensis, Sanguisorba officinalis) 90.02
6520 Mountain hay meadows 270.06
7110 Active raised bogs 90.02
7120 Degraded raised bogs still capable of natural regeneration 90.02
7140 Transition mires and quaking bogs 90.02
7150 Depressions on peat substrates of the Rhynchosporion 90.02
8110 Siliceous scree of the montane to snow levels (Androsacetalia alpinae and Galeopsietalia ladani) 180.04
8220 Siliceous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation 90.02
9110 Luzulo-Fagetum beech forests 1980.44
9130 Asperulo-Fagetum beech forests 2250.5
9140 Medio-European subalpine beech woods with Acer and Rumex arifolius 720.16
9180 Tilio-Acerion forests of slopes, screes and ravines 270.06
91D0 Bog woodland 90.02
91E0 Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Padion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae) 90.02
9410 Acidophilous Picea forests of the montane to alpine levels (Vaccinio-Piceetea) 90.02

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)
June 2004
  • Date confirmed as Site of Community Importance
December 2008
 
Date designated as Special Area of Conservation (SAC) April 2010
 
Date of Standard data form update March 2007

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