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Date of publication: February 12, 2024
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Distribution of European habitat types as derived from the Article 17 (Annex I) reporting of the Habitats Directive 92/43/EEC for the period 2013-2018. The dataset contains gridded habitats distribution data (10 km grid cells), as reported by EU28 Member States. ...(continue reading)
DOI 10.25829/hn9gx7HabitatsEuropeHabitats Directive
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Bushes with Pinus mugo and Rhododendron hirsutum (Mugo-Rhododendretum hirsuti) |
Active raised bogs |
Mountain hay meadows |
Lowland hay meadows (Alopecurus pratensis, Sanguisorba officinalis) |
Alluvial meadows of river valleys of the Cnidion dubii |
Hydrophilous tall herb fringe communities of plains and of the montane to alpine levels |
Molinia meadows on calcareous, peaty or clayey-silt-laden soils (Molinion caeruleae) |
Pannonic loess steppic grasslands |
Species-rich Nardus grasslands, on siliceous substrates in mountain areas (and submountain areas, in Continental Europe) |
Semi-natural dry grasslands and scrubland facies on calcareous substrates (Festuco-Brometalia) (* important orchid sites) |
Rupicolous pannonic grasslands (Stipo-Festucetalia pallentis) |
Alpine and subalpine calcareous grasslands |
Calaminarian grasslands of the Violetalia calaminariae |
Rupicolous calcareous or basophilic grasslands of the Alysso-Sedion albi |
Alpine Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra forests |
Natural dystrophic lakes and ponds |
Subalpine and montane Pinus uncinata forests (* if on gypsum or limestone) |
(Sub-) Mediterranean pine forests with endemic black pines |
Pannonic salt steppes and salt marshes |
Pannonic inland dunes |
Oligotrophic to mesotrophic standing waters with vegetation of the Littorelletea uniflorae and/or of the Isoeto-Nanojuncetea |
Juniperus communis formations on heaths or calcareous grasslands |
Natural eutrophic lakes with Magnopotamion or Hydrocharition - type vegetation |
Subcontinental peri-Pannonic scrub |
Alpine rivers and the herbaceous vegetation along their banks |
Alpine rivers and their ligneous vegetation with Salix elaeagnos |
Water courses of plain to montane levels with the Ranunculion fluitantis and Callitricho-Batrachion vegetation |
Rivers with muddy banks with Chenopodion rubri p.p. and Bidention p.p. vegetation |
European dry heaths |
Depressions on peat substrates of the Rhynchosporion |
Hard oligo-mesotrophic waters with benthic vegetation of Chara spp. |
Euro-Siberian steppic woods with Quercus spp. |
Degraded raised bogs still capable of natural regeneration |
Tilio-Acerion forests of slopes, screes and ravines |
Bog woodland |
Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Padion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae) |
Riparian mixed forests of Quercus robur, Ulmus laevis and Ulmus minor, Fraxinus excelsior or Fraxinus angustifolia, along the great rivers (Ulmenion minoris) |
Sub-Atlantic and medio-European oak or oak-hornbeam forests of the Carpinion betuli |
Pannonian woods with Quercus pubescens |
Medio-European limestone beech forests of the Cephalanthero-Fagion |
Illyrian Fagus sylvatica forests (Aremonio-Fagion) |
Illyrian oak-hornbeam forests (Erythronio-Carpinion) |
Pannonian-Balkanic turkey oak-sessile oak forests |
Acidophilous Picea forests of the montane to alpine levels (Vaccinio-Piceetea) |
Pannonic woods with Quercus petraea and Carpinus betulus |
Calcareous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation |
Sub-Pannonic steppic grasslands |
Calcareous fens with Cladium mariscus and species of the Caricion davallianae |
Petrifying springs with tufa formation (Cratoneurion) |
Alkaline fens |
Alpine pioneer formations of Caricion bicoloris-atrofuscae |
Galio-Carpinetum oak-hornbeam forests |
Medio-European calcareous scree of hill and montane levels |
Transition mires and quaking bogs |
Siliceous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation |
Siliceous rock with pioneer vegetation of the Sedo-Scleranthion or of the Sedo albi-Veronicion dillenii |
Caves not open to the public |
Luzulo-Fagetum beech forests |
Asperulo-Fagetum beech forests |
Medio-European subalpine beech woods with Acer and Rumex arifolius |
Medio-European upland siliceous screes |
Blanket bogs (* if active bog) |
Pannonic sand steppes |
Alpine rivers and their ligneous vegetation with Myricaria germanica |
Siliceous alpine and boreal grasslands |
Alpine and Boreal heaths |
Sub-Arctic Salix spp. scrub |
Siliceous scree of the montane to snow levels (Androsacetalia alpinae and Galeopsietalia ladani) |
Permanent glaciers |
Calcareous and calcshist screes of the montane to alpine levels (Thlaspietea rotundifolii) |
Limestone pavements |
Xeric sand calcareous grasslands |
Stable xerothermophilous formations with Buxus sempervirens on rock slopes (Berberidion p.p.) |
Northern Atlantic wet heaths with Erica tetralix |
Inland dunes with open Corynephorus and Agrostis grasslands |
Reefs |
Mudflats and sandflats not covered by seawater at low tide |
Estuaries |
Sandbanks which are slightly covered by sea water all the time |
Old acidophilous oak woods with Quercus robur on sandy plains |
Atlantic acidophilous beech forests with Ilex and sometimes also Taxus in the shrublayer (Quercion robori-petraeae or Ilici-Fagenion) |
Wooded dunes of the Atlantic, Continental and Boreal region |
Oligotrophic waters containing very few minerals of sandy plains (Littorelletalia uniflorae) |
Humid dune slacks |
Spartina swards (Spartinion maritimae) |
Dunes with Salix repens ssp. argentea (Salicion arenariae) |
Dunes with Hippophae rhamnoides |
Atlantic decalcified fixed dunes (Calluno-Ulicetea) |
Fixed coastal dunes with herbaceous vegetation ("grey dunes") |
Shifting dunes along the shoreline with Ammophila arenaria ("white dunes") |
Embryonic shifting dunes |
Atlantic salt meadows (Glauco-Puccinellietalia maritimae) |
Salicornia and other annuals colonizing mud and sand |
Dry sand heaths with Calluna and Genista |
Arborescent matorral with Juniperus spp. |
Ponto-Sarmatic deciduous thickets |
Endemic oro-Mediterranean heaths with gorse |
Pseudo-steppe with grasses and annuals of the Thero-Brachypodietea |
Eastern sub-Mediterranean dry grasslands (Scorzoneratalia villosae) |
Ponto-Sarmatic steppes |
Oro-Moesian acidophilous grasslands |
Mediterranean tall humid grasslands of the Molinio-Holoschoenion |
Southern riparian galleries and thickets (Nerio-Tamaricetea and Securinegion tinctoriae) |
Eastern white oak woods |
Western Pontic beech forests |
Mediterranean salt meadows (Juncetalia maritimi) |
Salix alba and Populus alba galleries |
Inland salt meadows |
Moesian silver lime woods |
Endemic forests with Juniperus spp. |
Moesian beech forests |
Castanea sativa woods |
Hellenic beech forests with Abies borisii-regis |
Platanus orientalis and Liquidambar orientalis woods (Platanion orientalis) |
High oro-Mediterranean pine forests |
Large shallow inlets and bays |
Submarine structures made by leaking gases |
Submerged or partially submerged sea caves |
Moesian silver fir forests |
Rhodopide and Balkan Range Scots pine forests |
Rhodope Potentilla fruticosa thickets |
Vegetated sea cliffs of the Mediterranean coasts with endemic Limonium spp. |
Annual vegetation of drift lines |
Coastal lagoons |
Cupressus forests (Acero-Cupression) |
Olea and Ceratonia forests |
Eastern Mediterranean screes |
Peat grasslands of Troodos |
Scrub and low forest vegetation with Quercus alnifolia |
Woodlands with Quercus infectoria (Anagyro foetidae-Quercetum infectoriae) |
Mediterranean pine forests with endemic Mesogean pines |
Cedrus brevifolia forests (Cedrosetum brevifoliae) |
Posidonia beds (Posidonion oceanicae) |
Serpentinophilous grasslands of Cyprus |
Arborescent matorral with Zyziphus |
Mediterranean and thermo-Atlantic halophilous scrubs (Sarcocornetea fruticosi) |
Halo-nitrophilous scrubs (Pegano-Salsoletea) |
Mediterranean salt steppes (Limonietalia) |
Iberian gypsum vegetation (Gypsophiletalia) |
Dunes with Euphorbia terracina |
Intermittently flowing Mediterranean rivers of the Paspalo-Agrostidion |
Laurus nobilis thickets |
Sarcopoterium spinosum phryganas |
Malcolmietalia dune grasslands |
Arborescent matorral with Laurus nobilis |
Mediterranean temporary ponds |
Cisto-Lavenduletalia dune sclerophyllous scrubs |
Coastal dunes with Juniperus spp. |
Brachypodietalia dune grasslands with annuals |
Thermo-Mediterranean and pre-desert scrub |
Sarmatic steppe pine forest |
Central European lichen Scots pine forests |
Turloughs |
Lakes of gypsum karst |
Perennial vegetation of stony banks |
Vegetated sea cliffs of the Atlantic and Baltic Coasts |
Decalcified fixed dunes with Empetrum nigrum |
Dry sand heaths with Calluna and Empetrum nigrum |
Fennoscandian mineral-rich springs and springfens |
Fennoscandian wooded meadows |
Western Taiga |
Northern boreal alluvial meadows |
Fennoscandian hemiboreal natural old broad-leaved deciduous forests (Quercus, Tilia, Acer, Fraxinus or Ulmus) rich in epiphytes |
Fennoscandian deciduous swamp woods |
Fennoscandian wooded pastures |
Coniferous forests on, or connected to, glaciofluvial eskers |
Fennoscandian herb-rich forests with Picea abies |
Boreal Baltic islets and small islands |
Boreal Baltic sandy beaches with perennial vegetation |
Boreal Baltic coastal meadows |
Fennoscandian lowland species-rich dry to mesic grasslands |
Nordic alvar and precambrian calcareous flatrocks |
Wooded dunes with Pinus pinea and/or Pinus pinaster |
Oligotrophic waters containing very few minerals generally on sandy soils of the West Mediterranean, with Isoetes spp. |
Crucianellion maritimae fixed beach dunes |
Mountain Cytisus purgans formations |
Temperate Atlantic wet heaths with Erica ciliaris and Erica tetralix |
Constantly flowing Mediterranean rivers with Paspalo-Agrostidion species and hanging curtains of Salix and Populus alba |
Constantly flowing Mediterranean rivers with Glaucium flavum |
Fields of lava and natural excavations |
Palm groves of Phoenix |
Canarian endemic pine forests |
Endemic macaronesian heaths |
Macaronesian laurel forests (Laurus, Ocotea) |
Riparian formations on intermittent Mediterranean water courses with Rhododendron ponticum, Salix and others |
Thermophilous Fraxinus angustifolia woods |
Forests of Ilex aquifolium |
Quercus ilex and Quercus rotundifolia forests |
Quercus suber forests |
Quercus faginea and Quercus canariensis Iberian woods |
Galicio-Portuguese oak woods with Quercus robur and Quercus pyrenaica |
Tetraclinis articulata forests |
Abies pinsapo forests |
Mediterranean Taxus baccata woods |
Dehesas with evergreen Quercus spp. |
Oro-Iberian Festuca indigesta grasslands |
Endemic phryganas of the Euphorbio-Verbascion |
West Mediterranean clifftop phryganas (Astragalo-Plantaginetum subulatae) |
Low formations of Euphorbia close to cliffs |
Western Mediterranean and thermophilous scree |
Siliceous Pyrenean Festuca eskia grasslands |
Vegetated sea cliffs with endemic flora of the Macaronesian coasts |
Dry Atlantic coastal heaths with Erica vagans |
Boreal Baltic narrow inlets |
Fennoscandian natural rivers |
Natural forests of primary succession stages of landupheaval coast |
Nordic subalpine/subarctic forests with Betula pubescens ssp. czerepanovii |
Palsa mires |
Aapa mires |
Baltic esker islands with sandy, rocky and shingle beach vegetation and sublittoral vegetation |
Old sessile oak woods with Ilex and Blechnum in the British Isles |
Quercus macrolepis forests |
Quercus trojana woods |
Quercus frainetto woods |
Aegean Quercus brachyphylla woods |
Tufa cascades of karstic rivers in the Dinaric Alps |
Sub-Mediterranean grasslands of the Molinio-Hordeion secalini |
Dinaric dolomite Scots pine forests (Genisto januensis-Pinetum) |
Pannonic inland sand dune thicket (Junipero-Populetum albae) |
Taxus baccata woods of the British Isles |
Apennine beech forests with Taxus and Ilex |
Apennine beech forests with Abies alba and beech forests with Abies nebrodensis |
Southern Apennine Abies alba forests |
Holy Cross fir forests (Abietetum polonicum) |
Western Carpathian calcicolous Pinus sylvestris forests |
Cistus palhinhae formations on maritime wet heaths |
Macaronesian mesophile grasslands |
Dacian oak and hornbeam forests |
Dacian Beech forests (Symphyto-Fagion) |
Dobrogean beech forests |
Transylvanian hot-spring lotus beds |
Caledonian forest |
Machairs (* in Ireland) |