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Crêts du Haut-Jura

Quick facts

  • Natura 2000 site (code FR8201643)
  • Under Habitats Directive
  • Since March 1999
  • Country: France
  • Administrative region: Rhône-Alpes (FR71)
  • Surface area: 173 km2 (17315.80 ha)
  • Marine area: 0%
  • Located in Continental biogeographical region
  • It protects 13 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 (13)
Species group Number
Amphibians 1
Flowering Plants 2
Invertebrates 2
Mammals 7
Mosses & Liverworts 1

Habitat types

Habitat type code Habitat type english name Cover [ha]
3240 Alpine rivers and their ligneous vegetation with Salix elaeagnos 0
6110 Rupicolous calcareous or basophilic grasslands of the Alysso-Sedion albi 0
6170 Alpine and subalpine calcareous grasslands 1908.06
6210 Semi-natural dry grasslands and scrubland facies on calcareous substrates (Festuco-Brometalia) (* important orchid sites) 867.3
6430 Hydrophilous tall herb fringe communities of plains and of the montane to alpine levels 0
6510 Lowland hay meadows (Alopecurus pratensis, Sanguisorba officinalis) 346.92
6520 Mountain hay meadows 520.38
7220 Petrifying springs with tufa formation (Cratoneurion) 0
7230 Alkaline fens 0
8120 Calcareous and calcshist screes of the montane to alpine levels (Thlaspietea rotundifolii) 0
8130 Western Mediterranean and thermophilous scree 173.46
8160 Medio-European calcareous scree of hill and montane levels 0
8210 Calcareous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation 0
9130 Asperulo-Fagetum beech forests 867.3
9140 Medio-European subalpine beech woods with Acer and Rumex arifolius 2081.52
9150 Medio-European limestone beech forests of the Cephalanthero-Fagion 2775.36
9160 Sub-Atlantic and medio-European oak or oak-hornbeam forests of the Carpinion betuli 173.46
9180 Tilio-Acerion forests of slopes, screes and ravines 173.46
91E0 Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Padion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae) 0
9410 Acidophilous Picea forests of the montane to alpine levels (Vaccinio-Piceetea) 346.92
9430 Subalpine and montane Pinus uncinata forests (* if on gypsum or limestone) 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)
March 1999
  • Date confirmed as Site of Community Importance
December 2004
 
Date designated as Special Area of Conservation (SAC) October 2008
 
Date of Standard data form update March 2006

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