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Parco Nazionale Gran Sasso - Monti della Laga

Quick facts

  • Natura 2000 site (code IT7110128)
  • Under Birds Directive
  • Since October 1988
  • Country: Italy
  • Administrative region: Abruzzo (ITF1)
  • Surface area: 1433 km2 (143311.00 ha)
  • Marine area: 0%
  • Located in Alpine biogeographical region
  • It protects 41 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 (41)
Species group Number
Amphibians 2
Birds 21
Fishes 4
Flowering Plants 3
Invertebrates 4
Mammals 5
Reptiles 2

Habitat types

Habitat type code Habitat type english name Cover [ha]
3240 Alpine rivers and their ligneous vegetation with Salix elaeagnos 1433.11
3280 Constantly flowing Mediterranean rivers with Paspalo-Agrostidion species and hanging curtains of Salix and Populus alba 1433.11
4060 Alpine and Boreal heaths 2866.22
5130 Juniperus communis formations on heaths or calcareous grasslands 1433.11
5210 Arborescent matorral with Juniperus spp 1433.11
6110 Rupicolous calcareous or basophilic grasslands of the Alysso-Sedion albi 2866.22
6170 Alpine and subalpine calcareous grasslands 5732.44
6210 Semi-natural dry grasslands and scrubland facies on calcareous substrates (Festuco-Brometalia) (* important orchid sites) 35827.8
6220 Pseudo-steppe with grasses and annuals of the Thero-Brachypodietea 4299.33
6230 Species-rich Nardus grasslands, on silicious substrates in mountain areas (and submountain areas in Continental Europe) 1433.11
8120 Calcareous and calcshist screes of the montane to alpine levels (Thlaspietea rotundifolii) 2866.22
8130 Western Mediterranean and thermophilous scree 1433.11
8210 Calcareous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation 2866.22
8220 Siliceous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation 1433.11
8240 Limestone pavements 2866.22
8340 Permanent glaciers 28.66
9180 Tilio-Acerion forests of slopes, screes and ravines 1433.11
9210 Apeninne beech forests with Taxus and Ilex 10031.8
9220 Apennine beech forests with Abies alba and beech forests with Abies nebrodensis 1433.11
9260 Castanea sativa woods 2866.22
9340 Quercus ilex and Quercus rotundifolia forests 1433.11

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) Under Birds directive
  • Date classified as Special Protection Area (SPA)
October 1988
 
Habitats Directive 92/43/EEC (SCI) Not under Habitats directive
 
Date of Standard data form update December 2015

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