12 - Sea inlets and coastal features

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Bays and narrow channels of the oceans and their connected seas, including sea lochs or loughs, fiords or fiards, rias and straits but excluding estuaries and lagoons. Detailed habitats can be coded by combining subdivisions of unit 11 with the relevant physiographic subdivisions of unit 12.

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)

Wood, 1988.