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Concept: Pontic [Zostera marina] and [Zostera noltii] meadows in the eunishabitats vocabulary

Concept URI http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/eunishabitats/A2.613
Preferred label Pontic [Zostera marina] and [Zostera noltii] meadows
Definition [Zostera marina] and [Zostera noltii] formations of Black Sea shores, particularly luxuriant in the limans of the northern Black Sea and the Azov Sea. In the Black Sea, the dominant species of the [Zostera] biocenosis are [Zostera marina] and [Zostera noltii] (a total of 5 species of the genus [Zostera]) which form dense growths in bays and limans. There are 17-40 species of algae in the [Zostera] biocenosis which account for 1-30% of the phytocoenosis biomass. The most dominant of these species are: [Ulva rigida], [Chatemorpha chlorotica], [Ectocarpus confervoides], [Laurencia obtusa] and [Gracilaria verrucosa]. The total number of macrozoobenthos species varies from 24 in the Kut part of Karkinitsky Bay to 70 in Kazachey Bay (Sevastopol). In the areas with higher freshwater input, the biocoenosis contains the crabs [Macropipus holsatus] and [Rhithropanopeus harrisi tridentata], and the prawns [Palaemon adspersus] and [Palaemon elegans]. In Tendrovsky bay, other mass species are also: [Abra ovata] and Hydrobiidae. On the Crimean shelf the mass species are the gastropod molluscs [Mohrensternia parva], [Bittium reticulatum] and the bivalve mollusc [Mytilaster lineatus] (Zaitsev and Aleksandrov, 1998).
Notation A2.613
Status Valid
Status Modified 2014-01-31
Accepted Date 2014-01-31
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