13.21 - Coastal plain estuaries

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

River-dominated, allochthonous deltaic estuaries formed by rivers accumulating sediments beyond the river mouth, often complex and constituted by many channels, with a salt wedge in the main channel; they are characteristic of microtidal shorelines.

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)

Ketchum, 1983; Dijkema & al., 1984; Summerfield, 1991: 331-339; Einarsson, 1994; Gudmundsson and Kjartansson, 1996.