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Rade de Brest, estuaire de l'Aulne

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  • Natura 2000 site (code FR5300046)
  • Under Habitats Directive
  • Since April 2002
  • Country: France
  • Administrative region: Bretagne (FR52)
  • Surface area: 92 km2 (9227.00 ha)
  • Marine area: 78%
  • Located in Atlantic biogeographical region
  • It protects 15 species of the Nature Directives
  • It protects 23 habitat types of the Habitats Directive

Source and more information: Natura 2000 Standard Data Form


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Species summary

Nature directives' species in this site (15)
Species group Number
Ferns 1
Fishes 4
Flowering Plants 1
Invertebrates 3
Mammals 6

Habitat types

Habitat type code Habitat type english name Cover [ha]
1110 Sandbanks which are slightly covered by sea water all the time 311.2
1130 Estuaries 622
1140 Mudflats and sandflats not covered by seawater at low tide 332.8
1150 Coastal lagoons 1
1160 Large shallow inlets and bays 4450.2
1170 Reefs 371.26
1210 Annual vegetation of drift lines 1.08
1230 Vegetated sea cliffs of the Atlantic and Baltic Coasts 2.45
1310 Salicornia and other annuals colonizing mud and sand 9.6
1330 Atlantic salt meadows (Glauco-Puccinellietalia maritimae) 73.73
1410 Mediterranean salt meadows (Juncetalia maritimi) 0.31
3110 Oligotrophic waters containing very few minerals of sandy plains (Littorelletalia uniflorae) 0.03
4020 Temperate Atlantic wet heaths with Erica ciliaris and Erica tetralix 0.37
4030 European dry heaths 17.44
6410 Molinia meadows on calcareous, peaty or clayey-silt-laden soils (Molinion caeruleae) 6.19
6430 Hydrophilous tall herb fringe communities of plains and of the montane to alpine levels 1.23
8220 Siliceous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation 0.45
8230 Siliceous rock with pioneer vegetation of the Sedo-Scleranthion or of the Sedo albi-Veronicion dillenii 0.15
9120 Atlantic acidophilous beech forests with Ilex and sometimes also Taxus in the shrublayer (Quercion robori-petraeae or Ilici-Fagenion) 336.41
9130 Asperulo-Fagetum beech forests 6.17
9180 Tilio-Acerion forests of slopes, screes and ravines 0.16
91D0 Bog woodland 0.11
91E0 Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Padion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae) 3.15

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)
 April 2002
  • Date confirmed as Site of Community Importance
 December 2004
 
Date designated as Special Area of Conservation (SAC) May 2014
 
Date of Standard data form update September 2017

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