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Granquet-Pibeste et Soum d'Ech

Quick facts

  • Natura 2000 site (code FR7300920)
  • Under Habitats Directive
  • Since December 1998
  • Country: France
  • Administrative region: Midi-Pyrénées (FR62)
  • Surface area: 73 km2 (7259.00 ha)
  • Marine area: 0%
  • Located in Alpine and Atlantic biogeographical regions
  • It protects 11 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 (11)
Species group Number
Invertebrates 2
Mammals 8
Mosses & Liverworts 1

Habitat types

Habitat type code Habitat type english name Cover [ha]
4030 European dry heaths 134.92
4060 Alpine and Boreal heaths 43.72
4090 Endemic oro-Mediterranean heaths with gorse 288.16
5110 Stable xero-thermophilous formations with Buxus sempervirens on rock slopes (Berberidion pp) 98.75
5130 Juniperus communis formations on heaths or calcareous grasslands 232.28
6110 Rupicolous calcareous or basophilic grasslands of the Alysso-Sedion albi 0.42
6170 Alpine and subalpine calcareous grasslands 196.06
6210 Semi-natural dry grasslands and scrubland facies on calcareous substrates (Festuco-Brometalia) (* important orchid sites) 963.99
6230 Species-rich Nardus grasslands, on silicious substrates in mountain areas (and submountain areas in Continental Europe) 319.52
6410 Molinia meadows on calcareous, peaty or clayey-silt-laden soils (Molinion caeruleae) 3.18
6430 Hydrophilous tall herb fringe communities of plains and of the montane to alpine levels 0
6520 Mountain hay meadows 16.2
7110 Active raised bogs 3.44
7120 Degraded raised bogs still capable of natural regeneration 0.86
7220 Petrifying springs with tufa formation (Cratoneurion) 4.8
8130 Western Mediterranean and thermophilous scree 35.98
8210 Calcareous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation 246.75
8310 Caves not open to the public 0.04
9120 Atlantic acidophilous beech forests with Ilex and sometimes also Taxus in the shrublayer (Quercion robori-petraeae or Ilici-Fagenion) 77.58
9150 Medio-European limestone beech forests of the Cephalanthero-Fagion 281.51
9180 Tilio-Acerion forests of slopes, screes and ravines 41.22

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 1998
  • Date confirmed as Site of Community Importance
December 2008
 
Date designated as Special Area of Conservation (SAC) May 2009
 
Date of Standard data form update March 2018

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