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Fossitt
Classification
Level Fossitt Category Code and Name EU Habitats Directive Annex 1 habitats & Natura 2000 Code
EU Habitats
Directive Status
Level 1 F Freshwater
Level 2 FL Lakes & Ponds
Level 3 FL1 Dystrophic lakes Natural dystrophic lakes and ponds (3160) Annex 1 Habitat
Appendix 6a. The County Clare Wetlands Survey Wetland Habitat Types recorded
and their relationship to the EU Habitats Directive.
Adapted from Fossitt (2000). level 3 = 34 habitat types; of which 8 are priority
Level 1 Dunes with Salix repens ssp. argentea (Salicion arenariae) (2170);
C Coastland
Level 2 CW Brackish water
Level 3 CW1 Lagoons and saline lakes *Coastal lagoons (1150) Priority Habitat
Level 2 CD Sand dune systems
Level 3 CD5 Dune Slacks
Humid dune slacks (2190) Annex 1 Habitat
Level 3 FL2 Acid oligotrophic lakes
Level 3 FL3 Limestone/marl lakes
Level 3 FL4 Mesotrophic lakes
Oligotrophic waters containing very few minerals of sandy plains
(Littorelletalia uniflorae) (3110); Oligotrophic to mesotrophic
standing waters with vegetation of the Littorelletea uniflorae
and/or of the Iso‘to-Nanojuncetea (3130) Annex 1 Habitat
Hard oligo-mesotrophic waters with benthic vegetation of Chara
spp. (3140)
Natural eutrophic lakes with Magnopotamion or Hydrocharitiontype
Level 3 Hydrophilous tall herb fringe communities of plains and of the
FL5 Eutrophic lakes
vegetation (3150) Annex 1 Habitat
Level 3 FL6 Turloughs Turloughs (3180) Priority Habitat
Level 3 FL7 Reservoirs
Level 3 FL8 Other artificial lakes and ponds
Level 2 FP Springs
Level 3 FP1 Calcareous springs Petrifying springs with tufa formation (Cratoneurion) (7220) Priority Habitat
Level 3 FP2 Non-Calcareous springs
Level 2 FS Swamps
Level 3 FS1 Reed and large sedge swamps
Level 3 FS2 Tall herb swamps
montane to alpine levels (6430) Annex 1 Habitat