Concept: Sparsely- or un-vegetated habitats on mineral substrates not resulting from recent ice activity in the eunishabitats vocabulary

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Concept URI	http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/eunishabitats/H5.3
Preferred label	Sparsely- or un-vegetated habitats on mineral substrates not resulting from recent ice activity
Definition	Accumulations of sand, boulders, stones, rock fragments, pebbles or gravels, unvegetated, occupied by lichens or mosses, or colonized by sparse herbs or shrubs. Included are inland dunes, moraines and drumlins originating from glacial deposition, sandar, eskers and kames resulting from fluvio-glacial deposition, block slopes, block streams and block fields constructed by periglacial depositional processes of downslope mass movement, ancient beach deposits constituted by former coastal constructional processes. Excludes mobile screes (H2) and deposits originating from eruptive volcanic activity (H6).
Notation	H5.3
Status	Valid
Status Modified	2014-01-31
Accepted Date	2014-01-31
Not Accepted Date
Editorial note	Physis habitat from which the description is taken includes this EUNIS habitat
Has broader	H5 (Miscellaneous inland habitats with very sparse or no vegetation) in biodiversity/eunishabitats
Has narrower	H5.31 (Clay and silt with very sparse or no vegetation) in biodiversity/eunishabitats H5.32 (Stable sand with very sparse or no vegetation) in biodiversity/eunishabitats H5.33 (Lacustrine dunes) in biodiversity/eunishabitats H5.34 (Inland non-lacustrine dunes) in biodiversity/eunishabitats H5.35 (Gravel with very sparse or no vegetation) in biodiversity/eunishabitats H5.36 (Shallow rocky soils with very sparse or no vegetation) in biodiversity/eunishabitats H5.37 (Boulder fields) in biodiversity/eunishabitats
Has exact match	http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/habitats/1633