13.22 - Bar-built estuaries

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Wave- and current-dominated autochthonous estuarine systems constituted by shallow, often extensive, embayments separated from the sea by offshore bars of current-transported sand and with a very reduced tidal range; they are characteristic of mesotidal 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.