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Appendix 2<br />

Appendix 2 Mountain habitat types in the<br />

Habitats Directive<br />

Code ( a ) Name Category ( b )<br />

1 Coastal and halophytic habitats<br />

11 Open sea and tidal areas<br />

1110 Sandbanks which are slightly covered by sea water all the time N<br />

1120 * Posidonia beds (Posidonion oceanicae) N<br />

1130 Estuaries N<br />

1140 Mudflats and sandflats not covered by seawater at low tide N<br />

1150 * Coastal lagoons N<br />

1160 Large shallow inlets and bays N<br />

1170 Reefs N<br />

1180 Submarine structures made by leaking gases N<br />

12 Sea cliffs and shingle or stony beaches<br />

1210 Annual vegetation of drift lines N<br />

1220 Perennial vegetation of stony banks N<br />

1230 Vegetated sea cliffs of the Atlantic and Baltic Coasts N<br />

1240 Vegetated sea cliffs of the Mediterranean coasts with endemic Limonium spp. N<br />

1250 Vegetated sea cliffs with endemic flora of the Macaronesian coasts N<br />

13 Atlantic and continental salt marshes and salt meadows<br />

1310 Salicornia and other annuals colonising mud and sand N<br />

1320 Spartina swards (Spartinion maritimae) N<br />

1330 Atlantic salt meadows (Glauco-Puccinellietalia maritimae) N<br />

1340 * Inland salt meadows N<br />

14 Mediterranean and thermo-Atlantic salt marshes and salt meadows<br />

1410 Mediterranean salt meadows (Juncetalia maritimi) N<br />

1420 Mediterranean and thermo-Atlantic halophilous scrubs (Sarcocornetea fruticosi) N<br />

1430 Halo-nitrophilous scrubs (Pegano-Salsoletea) N<br />

15 Salt and gypsum inland steppes<br />

1510 * Mediterranean salt steppes (Limonietalia) N<br />

1520 * Iberian gypsum vegetation (Gypsophiletalia) N<br />

1530 * Pannonic salt steppes and salt marshes N<br />

16 Boreal Baltic archipelago, coastal and landupheaval areas<br />

1610 Baltic esker islands with sandy, rocky and shingle beach vegetation and sublittoral vegetation N<br />

1620 Boreal Baltic islets and small islands N<br />

1630 * Boreal Baltic coastal meadows N<br />

1640 Boreal Baltic sandy beaches with perennial vegetation N<br />

1650 Boreal Baltic narrow inlets N<br />

2 Coastal sand dunes and inland dunes<br />

21 Sea dunes of the Atlantic, North Sea and Baltic coasts<br />

2110 Embryonic shifting dunes N<br />

2120 Shifting dunes along the shoreline with Ammophila arenaria ('white dunes') N<br />

2130 * Fixed coastal dunes with herbaceous vegetation (“grey dunes') N<br />

2140 * Decalcified fixed dunes with Empetrum nigrum N<br />

2150 * Atlantic decalcified fixed dunes (Calluno-Ulicetea) N<br />

2160 Dunes with Hippophaë rhamnoides N<br />

2170 Dunes with Salix repens ssp. argentea (Salicion arenariae) N<br />

2180 Wooded dunes of the Atlantic, Continental and Boreal region N<br />

2190 Humid dune slacks N<br />

21A0 Machairs (* in Ireland) N<br />

22 Sea dunes of the Mediterranean coast<br />

2210 Crucianellion maritimae fixed beach dunes N<br />

2220 Dunes with Euphorbia terracina N<br />

2230 Malcolmietalia dune grasslands N<br />

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Europe's <strong>ecological</strong> <strong>backbone</strong>: recognising the true value of our mountains

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