# Natural Habitat Types of Community Interest in Latvia

## Codes and names based on Directive 92/43/EEC

Code | Habitat
COASTAL AND HALOPHYTIC HABITATS
1110 | Sandbanks which are slightly covered by sea water all the time
1130 | Estuaries
1140 | Mudflats and sandflats not covered by seawater at low tide
1150* | Coastal lagoons
1160 | Large shallow inlets and bays
1170 | Reefs
1210 | Annual vegetation of drift lines
1220 | Perennial vegetation of stony banks
1230 | Vegetated sea cliffs of the Atlantic and Baltic Coasts
1310 | Salicornia and other annuals colonizing mud and sand
1630* | Boreal Baltic coastal meadows
1640 | Boreal Baltic coastal meadows
COASTAL SAND DUNES AND INLAND DUNES
2110 | Embryonic shifting dunes
2120 | Shifting dunes along the shoreline with Ammophila arenaria (‘white dunes’)
2130* | Fixed coastal dunes with herbaceous vegetation (‘grey dunes’)
2140* | Decalcified fixed dunes with Empetrum nigrum
2170 | Dunes with Salix repens ssp. argentea (Salicion arenariae)
2180 | Wooded dunes of the Atlantic,Continental and Boreal region
2190 | Humid dune slacks
2320 | Dry sand heaths with Calluna and Empetrum nigrum
2330 | Inland dunes with open Corynephorus and Agrostis grasslands

Code | Habitat
FRESHWATER HABITATS
3130 | Oligotrophic to mesotrophic standing waters with vegetation of the Littorelletea uniflorae and/or of the Isoëto-Nanojuncetea
3140 | Hard oligo-mesotrophic waters with benthic vegetation of Chara spp.
3150 | Natural eutrophic lakes with Magnopotamion or Hydrocharition –type vegetation
3160 | Natural dystrophic lakes and ponds
3180* | Turloughs
3190 | Lakes of gypsum karst
3260 | Water courses of plain to montane levels withthe Ranunculion fluitantis and Callitricho-Batrachion vegetation
TEMPERATE HEATH AND SCRUB
4010 | Northern Atlantic wet heaths with Erica tetralix
4030 | European dry heaths
5130 | Juniperus communis formations on heaths or calcareous grasslands
NATURAL AND SEMI-NATURAL GRASSLAND FORMATIONS
6110* | Rupicolous calcareous or basophilic grasslands of the Alysso-Sedion albi
6120* | Xeric sand calcareous grasslands
6210 | Semi-natural dry grasslands and scrubland facies on calcareous substrates (Festuco-Brometalia)(*important orchid sites)
6230* | Species-rich Nardus grasslands,on silicious substrates in mountain areas (and submountain areas in Continental Europe)
6270* | Fennoscandian lowland species-richdry to mesic grasslands
6410 | Molinia meadows on calcareous,peaty or clayey-silt-laden soils (Molinion caeruleae)
6430 | Hydrophilous tall herb fringe communities of plains and of the montane to alpine levels
6450 | Northern boreal alluvial meadows
6510 | Lowland hay meadows (Alopecurus pratensis, Sanguisorba officinalis)
6530* | Fennoscandian wooded meadows

Code | Habitats
RAISED BOGS AND MIRES AND FENS
7110* | Active raised bogs
7120 | Degraded raised bogs still capable of natural regeneration
7140 | Transition mires and quaking bogs
7150 | Depressions on peat substrates of the Rhynchosporion
7160 | Fennoscandian mineral-richsprings and springfens
7210* | Calcareous fens with Cladium mariscus and species of the Caricion davallianae
7220* | Petrifying springs withtufa formation (Cratoneurion)
7230 | Alkaline fens
ROCKY HABITATS AND CAVES
8210 | Calcareous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation
8220 | Siliceous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation
8310 | Caves not open to the public
FORESTS
9010* | Western Taïga
9020* | Fennoscandian hemiboreal natural old broad-leaved deciduous forests (Quercus, Tilia, Acer, Fraxinus or Ulmus) richin epiphytes
9060 | Coniferous forests on,or connected to,glaciofluvial eskers
9080* | Fennoscandian deciduous swamp woods
9160 | Sub-Atlantic and medio-European oak or oak-hornbeam forests of the Carpinion betuli
9180* | Tilio-Acerion forests of slopes, screes and ravines
91D0* | Bog woodland
91E0* | Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Padion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae)
91F0 | Riparian mixed forests of Quercus robur, Ulmus laevis and Ulmus minor, Fraxinus excelsior or Fraxinus angustifolia, along the great rivers (Ulmenion minoris)

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