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Concept: Temperate Atlantic sea-cliffs and rocky shores in the eunishabitats vocabulary
| Concept URI | http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/eunishabitats/B3.23 |
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| Preferred label | Temperate Atlantic sea-cliffs and rocky shores |
| Definition | Sea-cliffs, their faces, ledges and associated caves, rocky shores and isolated seaside rocks of the Atlantic temperate region, including the North Sea, the English Channel, the Irish Sea and the Bay of Biscay, along the coasts of Scandinavia south of the Arctic Circle, of the Faeroes, of the British Isles and their outlying archipelagoes, of mainland Europe south to Galicia. They are the breeding, resting or feeding places of great numbers of seabirds and sea-mammals, of which [Halichoerus grypus], [Sula bassana], [Uria aalge], [Alca torda], [Rissa tridactyla], [Phalacrocorax aristotelis aristotelis] are characteristic. |
| Notation | B3.23 |
| Status | Valid |
| Status Modified | 2014-01-31 |
| Accepted Date | 2014-01-31 |
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