17 - Plages de galets

Shingle beaches

Typologie des habitats de Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon

Descriptif anglais

Beaches of the oceans, of their connected seas and of their associated coastal lagoons, covered by pebbles, or sometimes boulders, usually formed by wave action.

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)

Vanden Berghen, 1964; Zohary, 1973; Augier, 1982; Géhu, 1985; van der Maarel, 1993b: 13.