23.1 - Athalassic saline lakes

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Athalassic, permanent or temporary, brackish, saline or hypersaline waterbodies and their associated animal, charophyte, green algal or lower algal pelagic and benthic communities. The macrophytic, euhydrophytic based communities that colonize them are separately listed under 23.2, the macrophytic amphibious communities and the terrestrial communities that may develop during dry phases or in drying and dried portions under 15, fringing belts or island rafts of rooted or floating tall emergent vegetation under 53.

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)

Mäemets, 1974: 57-58; Cei & al., 1982: 113-128; Burgis and Morris, 1987; Jung, 1990; Hollis and Jones, 1991; Scott, 1991; Denny, 1993a; Britton and Crivelli, 1993.