SAC Interest Features

Habitats

Marine, coastal and halophytic habitats		No. of SACs
1110	Sandbanks which are slightly covered by sea water all the time	25
1130	Estuaries	18
1140	Mudflats and sandflats not covered by seawater at low tide	30
1150	* Coastal lagoons	20
1160	Large shallow inlets and bays	14
1170	Reefs	37
1180	Submarine structures made by leaking gases	2
1210	Annual vegetation of drift lines	13
1220	Perennial vegetation of stony banks	12
1230	Vegetated sea cliffs of the Atlantic and Baltic coasts	40
1310	Salicornia and other annuals colonising mud and sand	13
1320	Spartina swards (Spartinion maritimae)	2
1330	Atlantic salt meadows (Glauco-Puccinellietalia maritimae)	26
1340	* Inland salt meadows	1
1420	Mediterranean and thermo-Atlantic halophilous scrubs (Sarcocornetea fruticosi)	4

Coastal sand dunes and continental dunes		No. of SACs
2110	Embryonic shifting dunes	24
2120	Shifting dunes along the shoreline with Ammophila arenaria (`white dunes`)	34
2130	* Fixed dunes with herbaceous vegetation (`grey dunes`)	32
2140	* Decalcified fixed dunes with Empetrum nigrum	2
2150	* Atlantic decalcified fixed dunes (Calluno-Ulicetea)	10
2160	Dunes with Hippophae rhamnoides	2
2170	Dunes with Salix repens ssp. argentea (Salicion arenariae)	14
2190	Humid dune slacks	26
21A0	Machairs	8
2250	* Coastal dunes with Juniperus spp.	2
2330	Inland dunes with open Corynephorus and Agrostis grasslands	1

Freshwater habitats		No. of SACs
3110	Oligotrophic waters containing very few minerals of sandy plains (Littorelletalia uniflorae)	4
3130	Oligotrophic to mesotrophic standing waters with vegetation of the Littorelletea uniflorae and/or of the Isoëto-Nanojuncetea	47
3140	Hard oligo-mesotrophic waters with benthic vegetation of Chara spp.	15
3150	Natural eutrophic lakes with Magnopotamion or Hydrocharition-type vegetation	16
3160	Natural dystrophic lakes and ponds	23
3170	* Mediterranean temporary ponds	1
3180	* Turloughs	2
3260	Water courses of plain to montane levels with the Ranunculion fluitantis and Callitricho-Batrachion vegetation	23

Temperate heath and scrub		No. of SACs
4010	Northern Atlantic wet heaths with Erica tetralix	72
4020	* Temperate Atlantic wet heaths with Erica ciliaris and Erica tetralix	4
4030	European dry heaths	117
4040	* Dry Atlantic coastal heaths with Erica vagans	1
4060	Alpine and Boreal heaths	33
4080	Sub-Arctic Salix spp. scrub	15

Sclerophyllous scrub (matorral)		No. of SACs
5110	Stable xerothermophilous formations with Buxus sempervirens on rock slopes (Berberidion p.p.)	1
5130	Juniperus communis formations on heaths or calcareous grasslands	17

Natural and semi-natural grassland formations		No. of SACs
6130	Calaminarian grasslands of the Violetalia calaminariae	20
6150	Siliceous alpine and boreal grasslands	29
6170	Alpine and subalpine calcareous grasslands	15
6210	Semi-natural dry grasslands and scrubland facies: on calcareous substrates (Festuco-Brometalia)	45
6211	* Semi-natural dry grasslands and scrubland facies: on calcareous substrates (Festuco-Brometalia) (important orchid sites)	17
6230	* Species-rich Nardus grassland, on siliceous substrates in mountain areas (and submountain areas in continental Europe)	22
6410	Molinia meadows on calcareous, peaty or clayey-silt-laden soils (Molinion caeruleae)	33
6430	Hydrophilous tall herb fringe communities of plains and of the montane to alpine levels	28
6510	Lowland hay meadows (Alopecurus pratensis, Sanguisorba officinalis)	5
6520	Mountain hay meadows	2

Raised bogs and mires and fens		No. of SACs
7110	* Active raised bogs	55
7120	Degraded raised bogs still capable of natural regeneration	38
7130	* Blanket bogs	77
7140	Transition mires and quaking bogs	41
7150	Depressions on peat substrates of the Rhynchosporion	32
7210	* Calcareous fens with Cladium mariscus and species of the Caricion davallianae	13
7220	* Petrifying springs with tufa formation (Cratoneurion)	17
7230	Alkaline fens	49
7240	* Alpine pioneer formations of the Caricion bicoloris-atrofuscae	15

Rocky habitats and caves		No. of SACs
8110	Siliceous scree of the montane to snow levels (Androsacetalia alpinae and Galeopsietalia ladani)	29
8120	Calcareous and calcshist screes of the montane to alpine levels (Thlaspietea rotundifolii)	11
8210	Calcareous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation	35
8220	Siliceous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation	33
8240	* Limestone pavements	11
8310	Caves not open to the public	6
8330	Submerged or partially submerged sea caves	15

Forests		No. of SACs
9120	Atlantic acidophilous beech forests with Ilex and sometimes also Taxus in the shrublayer (Quercion robori-petraeae or Ilici-Fagenion)	7
9130	Asperulo-Fagetum beech forests	11
9160	Sub-Atlantic and medio-European oak or oak-hornbeam forests of the Carpinion betuli	2
9180	* Tilio-Acerion forests of slopes, screes and ravines	48
9190	Old acidophilous oak woods with Quercus robur on sandy plains	7
91A0	Old sessile oak woods with Ilex and Blechnum in the British Isles	71
91C0	* Caledonian forest	12
91D0	* Bog woodland	17
91E0	* Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Padion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae)	36
91J0	* Taxus baccata woods of the British Isles	13

Note: * indicates Priority feature