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are endemic. Other elements of the ecosystem, such as pools and fallow fields, can be noted by
addition of codes from other units (22, 16.2, 34, 37, 53, 54, 82, 87). As a whole, machair is an essential
habitat for breeding waders such as Haematopus ostralegus, Vanellus vanellus, Charadrius hiaticula,
Calidris alpine, Tringa totanus and Gallinago gallinago; it supports the healthiest European population
of the threatened corncrake Crex crex).
compost heap, urban park: stored accumulations of rotting debris of herbaceous vegetation resultant
from management operations, including grass cuttings and fallen leaves.
conifer plantation (gen.): planted, uniformly-aged, usually single-species stands of coniferous trees.
CORINE 83.31.
CORINE 83.31: CONIFER PLANTATIONS
coniferous forest (gen.): forest and woodland of native coniferous trees other than floodplain and mire
woods and with stands of overmature, mature and young (saplings/scrub) trees; formations dominated
by coniferous trees, but including broad-leaved evergreen trees, are included. CORINE 42.
CORINE 42: CONIFEROUS WOODLANDS; forests and woodlands of native coniferous trees other
than floodplain and mire woods; formations dominated by coniferous trees, but comprising broadleaved
evergreen trees, are included.
conifers, scattered trees in open ground: see scattered trees in open ground (gen.).
continental salt meadows, saltmarsh: continetal salt meadows belonging phytosociologically to the
order Puccinellietalia distantis. CORINE 15.4.
CORINE 15.4: CONTINENTAL SALT MEADOWS; Puccinellietalia distantis; Salt meadows of salt
basins of interior middle Europe. Continental saltmarshes are remarkable, extremely threatened
communities occurring in a few isolated stations of Saxony and Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein,
Thuringe, Hesse, Lorraine, Auvergne and the Midlands. They comprise this unit and continental
glasswort swards (15.112). Habitats Directive, Natura 2000 code: 1340.
corine: the CORINE ”habitats” classification system; a hierarchical, numerical categorisation of
”habitat” categories, each of which is defined in the ”CORINE Biotopes Manual, Data
specifications”, Part 2, published by the Office for Official publications of the European
Communities, 1991. (ISBN 92-826-3211-3). Most CORINE ”habitat” categories are defined entirely
in terms of flowering-plant communities. Macrohabitat categories which co-incide with numbered
CORINE “habitat” categories have their corresponding CORINE code numbers given in this glossary,
followed, word for word, by the definitions of those CORINE categories as provided in the CORINE
Biotopes Manual mentioned above. The references provided in the CORINE Biotopes Manual, to
published sources of information on the different CORINE categories, are not included here. The
extension of the CORINE system to cover northern Europe has not yet been published in any readily
accessible form. References made to northern European categories here follow Romau (1996). A
French language version of the CORINE Biotopes Manual, restricted in its coverage to the CORINE
habitat types known to occur in France, has recently become available- see Bissardon and Guibal
(1998).
Corylus thickets, Atlantic scrub: thickets of Corylus avellanae. CORINE 31.8C.
cow dung, forest and open ground supplementary habitat: dung of cows/cattle, produced in situ, by
grazing livestock (this does not include manure, imported from elsewhere and spread mechanically, as
fertiliser).
crop: CORINE 82: Crops; fields of cereals, beets, sunflowers, leguminous fodder, potatoes and other
annually harvested plants. Faunal and floral quality and diversity depend on the intensity of agricultural
use. If a tree layer is present, it can be indicated by simultaneous use of a code of 83 or 84 with the
present one.
culture macrohabitats: anthropogenic landscape features. CORINE 8.
CORINE 8: Cultivated or built-up areas under the overwhelming influence of human activity; the
natural vegetation cover has been totally replaced as a result of agricultural practices, urbanization or
industrialization. A natural flora and fauna subsists mainly in areas of extensive and traditional
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