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Montagnes de Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port

Quick facts

  • Natura 2000 site (code FR7200754)
  • Under Habitats Directive
  • Since April 2002
  • Country: France
  • Administrative region: Aquitaine (FR61)
  • Surface area: 127 km2 (12749.00 ha)
  • Marine area: 0%
  • Located in Alpine and Atlantic biogeographical regions
  • It protects 14 species of the Nature Directives
  • It protects 19 habitat types of the Habitats Directive

Source and more information: Natura 2000 Standard Data Form


Species

Species summary

Nature directives' species in this site (14)
Species group Number
Ferns 1
Invertebrates 5
Mammals 8

Habitat types

Habitat type code Habitat type english name Cover [ha]
3260 Water courses of plain to montane levels with the Ranunculion fluitantis and Callitricho-Batrachion vegetation 1.01
4020 Temperate Atlantic wet heaths with Erica ciliaris and Erica tetralix 0.01
4030 European dry heaths 525
5110 Stable xero-thermophilous formations with Buxus sempervirens on rock slopes (Berberidion pp) 8.7
6210 Semi-natural dry grasslands and scrubland facies on calcareous substrates (Festuco-Brometalia) (* important orchid sites) 1595
6230 Species-rich Nardus grasslands, on silicious substrates in mountain areas (and submountain areas in Continental Europe) 3661
6410 Molinia meadows on calcareous, peaty or clayey-silt-laden soils (Molinion caeruleae) 5.32
6430 Hydrophilous tall herb fringe communities of plains and of the montane to alpine levels 0.1
6510 Lowland hay meadows (Alopecurus pratensis, Sanguisorba officinalis) 99
7110 Active raised bogs 0.01
7140 Transition mires and quaking bogs 2.37
7150 Depressions on peat substrates of the Rhynchosporion 2.01
7230 Alkaline fens 0
8210 Calcareous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation 52.78
8230 Siliceous rock with pioneer vegetation of the Sedo-Scleranthion or of the Sedo albi-Veronicion dillenii 265.81
8310 Caves not open to the public 0
9120 Atlantic acidophilous beech forests with Ilex and sometimes also Taxus in the shrublayer (Quercion robori-petraeae or Ilici-Fagenion) 1002
91E0 Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Padion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae) 0.01
9230 Galicio-Portuguese oak woods with Quercus robur and Quercus pyrenaica 0.01

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) July 2014
 
Date of Standard data form update October 2019

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