Concept: Completely mixed water column with reduced salinity in the eunishabitats vocabulary

Concept URI	http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/eunishabitats/A7.2
Preferred label	Completely mixed water column with reduced salinity
Definition	A water column which is completely and actively mixed, and influenced by freshwater so that the salinity is reduced relative to the adjacent fully marine seawater. This habitat type is usually found in relatively shallow, coastal situations, and is the result of river inflow or ice melt. Note that some discretion should be used in the interpretation of “adjacent”, for example in the Baltic Sea, “adjacent” fully marine seawater is reached only in the Kattegat.
Notation	A7.2
Status	Valid
Status Modified	2014-01-31
Accepted Date	2014-01-31
Not Accepted Date
Editorial note	Proposed new unit (Galway working group April 2001)
Has broader	A7 (Pelagic water column) in biodiversity/eunishabitats
Has narrower	A7.21 (Completely mixed water column with reduced salinity and short residence time) in biodiversity/eunishabitats A7.22 (Completely mixed water column with reduced salinity and medium residence time) in biodiversity/eunishabitats A7.23 (Completely mixed water column with reduced salinity and long residence time) in biodiversity/eunishabitats
Has exact match	http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/habitats/2768