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Natura 2000 codes and equivalent NVC communities, sand dune

Codes Directive Name National Vegetation Classification communities, relevant pages (Rodwell 2000), applicable to the UK only
Atlantic, North Sea and Baltic  
1210 Annual vegetation of drift lines Including SD 2 Honkenya peloides-Cakile maritima strandline community (Pages 136-139) and SD 3 Matricaria maritima-Galium aparine strandline community (Pages 140-143). Both communities of sandy/shingle shorelines.
16.211 Embryonic shifting dunes

SD 4 Elymus farctus ssp. boreali-atlanticus foredune community (Pages 144-147)
SD 5 Leymus arenarius mobile dune community (Pages 148-152)
16.212 Shifting dunes with Ammophila arenaria (white dunes) SD 6 Ammophila arenaria mobile dune community (Pages 153-162)
16.221-16.227* Fixed dunes with herbaceous vegetation (grey dune)

SD 7 Ammophila arenaria-Festuca rubra semi-fixed dune community (Pages 163-173)
SD 8 Festuca rubra-Galium verum fixed dune grassland (Pages 174-187)
SD 9 Ammophila arenaria-Arrhenatherum elatius dune (Pages 188-193)
SD 11 Carex arenaria-Cornicularia aculeata dune community (Pages 201-207)
SD 12 Carex arenaria-Festuca ovina capillaris dune grassland (Pages 208-213)
16.23* Decalcified dunes with Empetrum nigrum H 11 Calluna vulgaris-Carex arenaria heath.
16.24* Eu-atlantic decalcified fixed dunes (Calluno-Ulicetea)

H 11 Calluna vulgaris-Carex arenaria heath.

SD 10 Carex arenaria dune community (sub-community with Carynephorus canescens) (Pages 194-200)
16.251 Dunes with Hippophae rhamnoides SD 18 Hippophae rhamnoides dune scrub (Pages 242-246)
16.26 Dunes with Salix arenaria ssp. argentea (Salicion arenariea) SD 16 Salix repens-Holcus lanatus dune-slack community (Pages 230-235)
16.31-16.35 Humid dune slacks

SD 13 Sagina nodosa-Bryum pseudotriquetrum dune-slack community (Pages 214-217)
SD 14 Salix repens-Camylium stellatum dune-slack community (Pages 219-223)
SD 15 Salix repens-Calliergon cuspidatum dune-slack community (Pages 224-229)
SD 16 Salix repens-Holcus lanatus dune-slack community (Pages 230-235)
SD 17 Potentilla anserine-Carex nigra dune-slack community (Pages 236-241)
1A* Machairs *Priority habitat in Ireland only  

Table: Coastal habitats of Community interest (sand dunes) forming the basis for the selection of Special Areas for Conservation (SAC's). Taken from the Interpretation Manual of European Union Habitats, European Commission, October 1999. *Priority Habitat types. Note SD 1 is really a shingle beach community; SD 2 & 3 are also included in the shingle section.

References

Rodwell, J.S. 2000. British Plant Communities. Volume 5 Maritime Communities and Vegetation of Open Habitats. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 512 pp.

 
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