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Foreste Alto Bacino dell'Arno

Quick facts

  • Natura 2000 site (code IT5180002)
  • Under Habitats Directive
  • Since June 1995
  • Country: Italy
  • Administrative region: Toscana (ITE1)
  • Surface area: 104 km2 (10391.00 ha)
  • Marine area: 0%
  • Located in Continental biogeographical region
  • It protects 35 species of the Nature Directives
  • It protects 20 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 (35)
Species group Number
Amphibians 2
Birds 19
Fishes 2
Invertebrates 6
Mammals 6

Habitat types

Habitat type code Habitat type english name Cover [ha]
3130 Oligotrophic to mesotrophic standing waters with vegetation of the Littorelletea uniflorae and/or of the Isoeto-Nanojuncetea 0.004
3140 Hard oligo-mesotrophic waters with benthic vegetation of Chara spp 0.02
3150 Natural eutrophic lakes with Magnopotamion or Hydrocharition -type vegetation 0.06
3240 Alpine rivers and their ligneous vegetation with Salix elaeagnos 1.4
4030 European dry heaths 64.9
5130 Juniperus communis formations on heaths or calcareous grasslands 115.69
6110 Rupicolous calcareous or basophilic grasslands of the Alysso-Sedion albi 0.07
6210 Semi-natural dry grasslands and scrubland facies on calcareous substrates (Festuco-Brometalia) (* important orchid sites) 35.41
6230 Species-rich Nardus grasslands, on silicious substrates in mountain areas (and submountain areas in Continental Europe) 1.16
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) 100.55
8220 Siliceous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation 0.58
8230 Siliceous rock with pioneer vegetation of the Sedo-Scleranthion or of the Sedo albi-Veronicion dillenii 0.002
8310 Caves not open to the public 0.01
9110 Luzulo-Fagetum beech forests 2061.96
9130 Asperulo-Fagetum beech forests 1255.65
91E0 Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Padion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae) 56.15
9220 Apennine beech forests with Abies alba and beech forests with Abies nebrodensis 40.58
9260 Castanea sativa woods 578.78
91M0 Pannonian-Balkanic turkey oak –sessile oak forests 1228.21

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 1995
  • Date confirmed as Site of Community Importance
Not available
 
Date designated as Special Area of Conservation (SAC) December 2016
 
Date of Standard data form update December 2019

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