Lincolnshire coast (Saltfleetby–Theddlethorpe Dunes and Gibraltar Point)

This candidate Special Area of Conservation includes four sand dune communities:

1. 2120 Shifting dunes along the shoreline with Ammophila arenaria (`white dunes`). The dune system on the composite site Saltfleetby–Theddlethorpe Dunes and Gibraltar Point contains good examples of Shifting dunes. They are part of a successional transition with the other dune vegetation;
2. 2130 Fixed dunes with herbaceous vegetation (`grey dunes`);
3. 2160 Dunes with Hippophae rhamnoides. Good examples of dunes with Hippophae rhamnoides occur here within the natural range for this habitat in the UK;
4. 2190 Humid dune slacks.

The balance between the area covered by mature Hippophae rhamnoides and the the other dune communities that make up the site is an important management issue. A practical scheme of management has been proposed which integrates the conservation of the dune scrub with the requirements of the other sand dune features.