14.1 - Mud flats and sand flats

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Sands and muds of the coasts of the oceans, their connected seas and associated lagoons, submerged for part of every tide or for part of the annual cycle, devoid of terrestrial vascular plants, but usually coated by blue algae and diatoms. They are particularly well developed in the Wadden Sea, in the large bays of the North Sea, Atlantic and Channel coasts, in estuaries, in the Mediterranean Gulf of Gabes and along some subtropical coasts, among others, those of Mauritania.

Bibliographie

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)

Fuller, 1982: 21-35; Eisma and Fey, 1982: 13, 43-50; Soper, 1989; Morrison, 1989: 197-201; Hollis and Jones, 1991; Britton and Crivelli, 1993: 134, 144-145.