Concept: Fucoids on sheltered marine shores in the eunishabitats vocabulary

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Concept URI	http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/eunishabitats/A1.31
Preferred label	Fucoids on sheltered marine shores
Definition	Dense blankets of fucoid seaweeds dominating sheltered to extremely sheltered rocky shores and/or in locally sheltered patches on exposed to moderately exposed rocky shores. Typically, the wrack [Pelvetia canaliculata] (A1.311) occurs on the upper shore, with the wrack [Fucus spiralis] (A1.312) below. The middle shore is dominated by vast areas of the wrack [Ascophyllum nodosum] or the wrack [Fucus vesiculosus] (A1.313, A1.314) or a mixture of both. The wrack [Fucus serratus] covers lower shore bedrock and boulders (A1.315). Sheltered to very sheltered mixed substrata (pebbles and cobbles overlying muddy sand and gravel) shores can support fucoid communities (A1.3122; A1.3132; A1.3142; A1.3152). Situation: Sheltered shores (i.e. estuaries and sea lochs) below the lichen dominated zone and above the kelp dominated zone in the sublittoral or sheltered patches on more wave exposed shores.
Notation	A1.31
Status	Valid
Status Modified	2014-01-31
Accepted Date	2014-01-31
Not Accepted Date
Has broader	A1.3 (Low energy littoral rock) in biodiversity/eunishabitats
Has narrower	A1.311 ([Pelvetia canaliculata] on sheltered littoral fringe rock) in biodiversity/eunishabitats A1.312 ([Fucus spiralis] on sheltered upper eulittoral rock) in biodiversity/eunishabitats A1.313 ([Fucus vesiculosus] on moderately exposed to sheltered mid eulittoral rock) in biodiversity/eunishabitats A1.314 ([Ascophyllum nodosum] on very sheltered mid eulittoral rock) in biodiversity/eunishabitats A1.315 ([Fucus serratus] on sheltered lower eulittoral rock) in biodiversity/eunishabitats A1.316 (Association with [Fucus virsoides]) in biodiversity/eunishabitats
Has exact match	http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/habitats/5398