17.22 - Atlantic shingle beach drift lines

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Formations, predominantly of annuals, occupying accumulations of drift material and gravels rich in nitrogenous organic matter on nemoral and boreonemoral beaches of the Atlantic, the North Sea and the Baltic; characteristic are Cakile maritima ssp. maritima, Cakile maritima ssp. baltica, Salsola kali, Atriplex spp. (particularly Atriplex glabriuscula), Polygonum spp., Euphorbia peplis, Mertensia maritima, Glaucium flavum.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Cakiletalia maritimae p.: Salsolo-Cakilion maritimi p.: Atriplicetum glabriusculo-salinae i.a.

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)

Nordiska ministerradet, 1984: 4.1.1.5 [p.]; Géhu, 1985: 39, 50; Korotkov & al., 1991: 38; Påhlsson, 1994: 4.2.1.4 [p.].