StN DATABASE: CONTENT AND GLOSSARY OF ... - Pollinators

seasonal flower bed, urban park: area of rotovated, or otherwise maintained bare ground, into which
has been planted various herbaceous plants with decorative flowers, the plants usually being replaced a
number of times during any one year, in order to maintain a display of flowers for as long a season as
possible. CORINE 85.14: Park flower beds, arbors and shrubbery
semi-permanent flower bed, urban park: area of rotovated, or otherwise maintained bare ground, into
which has been planted either tall, perennial herbaceous plants (e.g. Iris, Narcissus) or small shrubs
(e.g. Erica, Lavandula, Rosa) that are left in place for more than one year, often acting as an edging or
backdrop to a seasonal flower bed, or as a hedge or path border. CORINE 85.14: Park flower beds,
arbors and shrubbery
sheep, heavily-grazed improved grassland: cropping of ground vegetation by sheep throughout the
growing season, resulting in reduction in general sward height to less than 2cm.
shingle beaches, coastal beaches: CORINE 17.1, 17.2, 17.3.
CORINE 17.1: UNVEGETATED SHINGLE BEACHES: Shingle beaches devoid of phanerogamic
vegetation. Mediolittoral (intertidal) and supralittoral invertebrate communities can be used to define
subdivisions.
CORINE 17.2: SHINGLE BEACH DRIFT LINES; Cakiletea maritimae p.; Formations of annuals
occupying accumulations of drift material and gravels rich in nitrogenous organic matter; characteristic
are Cakile maritima, Salsola kali, Atriplex spp. (particularly A. glabriuscula), Polygonum spp.,
Euphorbia peplis, Mertensia maritima, Glaucium flavum, Matthiola sinuata.
CORINE 17.3: SEA KALE COMMUNITIES; Honkenyo-Crambion; Halo-nitrophilous perennial
vegetation of the upper beach formed by Crambe maritima, Honkenya peploides and species
characteristic of the regional communities as indicated below.
shrubbery/hedge, urban park: stands or hedges of usually broad-leaved, evergreen, shrubs of 1-3m
height, with dense, ornamental foliage and/or ornamental flowers (e.g. Buxus, Laurus, Ligustrum,
Prunus laurocerasus, Rhododendron, Viburnum tinus). CORINE 85.14: Park flower beds, arbors and
shrubbery
small open area with flushes in forest, forest supplementary habitats: glades and small clearings
within forest, containing helocrene groundwater outflows and usually with a ground cover of tall-herb
communities (see under tall herb communities), though sometimes predominantly grassy with Juncus
and or Carex spp.
Spartina beds, saltmarsh: perennial, pioneer cordgrass (Spartina ) grasslands of coastal salt
muds:CORINE 15.2.
CORINE 15.2: CORDGRASS SWARDS; Spartinion maritimae; perennial pioneer Spartina grasslands
of coastal salt muds.
spring/flush (gen.), running freshwater: running water outflows at their point of emergence above
ground. CORINE 54.1: SPRINGS. For convenience helocrene features (flushes and seepages) are
included under this general category, with limnocrene and rheocrene springs. This category includes
CORINE 54.12: petrifying springs with tufa formations (Natura 2000 category code 7220).
CORINE 54.1: Montio-Cardaminetea i.a.; gushing spring (rheocrenes), springs basins (limnocrenes)
and seepages (helocrenes) and the communities closely associated with them and dependent on the
peculiar microclimatic and hydrological situation created by the spring. These comprise the specialised
spring communities (Montio-Cardaminetea) as well as the fen communities (Caricetalia davallianae,
54.2, Caricetalia fuscae, 54.4) or other communities (Caricion bicoloris-atrofuscae, 54.3, Festuco-
Brometea, 34.3) that are interwoven with them.
CORINE 54.12: Hard water springs with active formation of travertine or tufa. These formations are
found in such diverse environments as forests or open countryside. They are generally small (point or
linear formations) and dominated by bryophytes (Cratoneurion commutati).
spring in forest, forest supplementary habitat: limnocrene and rheocrene springs emerging within
forests, under the tree canopy.
spring in open ground, open ground supplementary habitats: limnocrene and rheocrene springs
emerging in open ground.
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