13 - Estuaries and tidal rivers

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Broadening of rivers entering the oceans or their connected seas and river channels below the tidal limit. Included are all marine or marine-related pelagic and benthic communities, which can be specified by use of subdivisions of unit 11, and all river course and riverbed communities, which can be specified by subdivisions of unit 24. The belts of fringing vegetation are excluded and indicated separately by use of units 53, 44, 15 and their subdivisions.

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; Summerfield, 1991: 331-339.