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Defileul Jiului

Quick facts

  • Natura 2000 site (code ROSCI0063)
  • Under Habitats Directive
  • Since Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 CET 2007
  • Country: Romania
  • Administrative region: Sud-Vest Oltenia (RO41), Vest (RO42)
  • Surface area: 109 km2 (10927.10 ha)
  • Marine area: 0%
  • Located in Alpine and Continental biogeographical regions
  • It protects 27 species of the Nature Directives
  • It protects 22 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 (27)
Species group Number
Amphibians 2
Fishes 3
Flowering Plants 2
Invertebrates 10
Mammals 10

Habitat types

Habitat type code Habitat type english name Cover [ha]
3220 Alpine rivers and the herbaceous vegetation along their banks 109
3230 Alpine rivers and their ligneous vegetation with Myricaria germanica 109
3240 Alpine rivers and their ligneous vegetation with Salix elaeagnos 109
4060 Alpine and Boreal heaths 552
6230 Species-rich Nardus grasslands, on silicious substrates in mountain areas (and submountain areas in Continental Europe) 24
6410 Molinia meadows on calcareous, peaty or clayey-silt-laden soils (Molinion caeruleae) 1
6430 Hydrophilous tall herb fringe communities of plains and of the montane to alpine levels 109
6510 Lowland hay meadows (Alopecurus pratensis, Sanguisorba officinalis) 231
7220 Petrifying springs with tufa formation (Cratoneurion) 1
8220 Siliceous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation 110
9110 Luzulo-Fagetum beech forests 3584
9130 Asperulo-Fagetum beech forests 318
9150 Medio-European limestone beech forests of the Cephalanthero-Fagion 11
9170 Galio-Carpinetum oak-hornbeam forests 109
9180 Tilio-Acerion forests of slopes, screes and ravines 135
91E0 Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Padion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae) 58
9410 Acidophilous Picea forests of the montane to alpine levels (Vaccinio-Piceetea) 19
40A0 Subcontinental peri-Pannonic scrub 3
6190 Rupicolous pannonic grasslands (Stipo-Festucetalia pallentis) 19
91L0 Illyrian oak-hornbeam forests (Erythronio-carpinion) 109
91V0 Dacian Beech forests (Symphyto-Fagion) 4152
91Y0 Dacian oak & hornbeam forests 62

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)
Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 CET 2007
  • Date confirmed as Site of Community Importance
Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 CET 2009
 
Date of Standard data form update Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 CEST 2021

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