86.411 - Sand, clay and kaolin quarries

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Permanently or temporarily unworked sites or parts of sites of open-sky soft material extraction, often significant as reproduction sites of burrowing species.

Bibliography

Devillers P., Devillers-Terschuren J. & Vander Linden C., 2001. PHYSIS Palaearctic Habitat Classification Database. Updated to 10 December 2001. Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles, Bruxelles. (Source)