EUNIS habitat classification 2012 amended 2019 > B - Coastal habitats > B1 - Coastal dunes and sandy shores > B1.3 - Shifting coastal dunes

Shifting coastal dunes

English name: Shifting coastal dunes

Description (English)

Mobile sands of the coasts of the boreal, nemoral, steppe, Mediterranean and warm-temperate humid zones, unvegetated or occupied by open grasslands; they may form tall dune ridges or, particularly along the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, be limited to a fairly flat upper beach, still subject in part to inundation.

Source:
EUNIS habitat classification
Interpretation Manual of the habitats targeted by Resolution No. 4

Quick facts

EUNIS habitat type	code B1.3
Bern Convention	Resolution 4 habitat type (used for designation of Emerald sites)
Relation to	Annex I habitat types (EU Habitats Directive)

Legal status

Mentioned in the following international legal instruments and agreements

Legal text	Annex	More information
Convention on the conservation of European wildlife and natural habitats (Bern Convention)	Revised Annex I of Resolution 4 (1996) of the Bern Convention on endangered natural habitats types using the EUNIS habitat classification (year of revision 2014)	https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc....ckColorLogged=FDC864 Resolution No. 4 (1996) of the Bern Convention lists endangered natural habitats requiring specific conservation measures [and the designation of Areas of Special Conservation Interest (ASCIs) forming the Emerald network]

Relation to other habitat types mentioned in legal instruments

Legal text	Annex	Name in legal text	Code in legal text	Habitat type relationship	More information
Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora - consolidated version 01/01/2007	Annex I: natural habitat types of community interest whose conservation requires the designation of special areas of conservation	Boreal Baltic sandy beaches with perennial vegetation	1640	Overlap	http://ec.europa.eu/environm...rective/index_en.htm
Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora - consolidated version 01/01/2007	Annex I: natural habitat types of community interest whose conservation requires the designation of special areas of conservation	Embryonic shifting dunes	2110	Wider
Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora - consolidated version 01/01/2007	Annex I: natural habitat types of community interest whose conservation requires the designation of special areas of conservation	Shifting dunes along the shoreline with Ammophila arenaria ('white dunes')	2120	Wider

Vegetation types

Relation to vegetation types (syntaxa)

Name	Definition	Alternatives	Reftext
Ammophilion Br.-Bl. 1921	Vegetation of warm-temperate mediterranean tall-grass swards on embryonic coastal sand dunes	Ammophilion australis Br.-Bl. 1921 corr. Géhu 1998; Euphorbio-Ammophilion arenariae Géhu et Géhu-Franck 1969; Agropyrion mediterraneum Géhu et Géhu-Franck 1969; Sporobolion arenarii (Géhu et Géhu-Franck ex Géhu et Biondi 1994) Rivas-Mart. et al. 2002; Agropyrion juncei Pignatti 1953; Ammophilion Br.-Bl. 1933; Ammophilion littori-arenariae Br.-Bl. 1921; Euphorbio-Festucion dumetori Géhu 1975; Sporobolion arenarii (Géhu et Géhu-Franck ex Géhu et Biondi 1994) Rivas-Mart. et al. 2001; Zygophyllion albi Géhu et al. 1990; Zygophyllion albi Géhu et al. 1991; Ammophilion arundinaceae Br.-Bl. 1921 corr. Géhu et al. in Rivas-Mart. et al. 1990	Schaminee et al, 2012
Polycarpaeo niveae-Euphorbion paraliae Rivas-Mart. et Wildpret in Rivas-Mart. et al. 2002	Canarian and West-Saharian oceanic halophilous scrub on mobile coastal desertic dunes	Polycarpaeo niveae-Euphorbion paraliae Rivas-Mart. et al. 2001	Schaminee et al, 2012
Agropyro-Honckenyion peploidis Tx. in Br.-Bl. et Tx. 1952 nom. mut.	Temperate pioneer rhizomatous swards of coastal foredunes of cold-temperate Atlantic and Baltic seaboards	Honckenyo-Leymion arenarii Tx. 1970 nom. mut. propos.; Honckenyo peoploidis-Elytrigion boreali-atlanticae Tx. in Br.-Bl. et Tx. 1952 nom. mut. et nom. invers.; Elytrigion boreoatlanticum Géhu et Géhu 1969 nom. mut. propos.; Agropyro-Minuartion peploidis Tx. in Br.-Bl. et Tx. 1952 (basionym); Honckenyo-Elymion arenarii Tx. 1970; Honckenyo-Leymion arenarii Tx. 1966; Agropyrion boreoatlanticum J.-M. Géhu et Géhu 1969; Honckenyion peploidis (Tx. 1966) G. Passarge et Passarge 1973; Elytrigio boreoatlanticae-Honckenyion peoploidis Tx. In Br.-Bl. et Tx. 1952 nom. mut. propos.; Agropyrion junceiformis (Tx. in Br.-Bl. et Tx. 1952) Rivas-Mart. et al. 1980; Agropyrion junceiformis Géhu et al. ex Loriente 1978; Elymo boreoatlantici-Honckenyion peploides Tx. in Br.-Bl. et Tx. 1952 nom. mut. propos.; Lathyro-Elymion arenariae G. Passarge et Passarge 1973; Agropyrion juncei (Tx. in Br.-Bl. et Tx. 1952) Géhu et al. in Géhu et al. 1984	Schaminee et al, 2012
Elymion gigantei Morariu 1957	Vegetation of Euxinic tall-grass swards on embryonic coastal sand dunes	Leymion sabulosi Morariu 1957 nom. mut. propos.	Schaminee et al, 2012
Elymion arenarii Christiansen 1927	Vegetation of cool-temperate atlantic tall-grass swards on embryonic coastal sand dunes	Ammophilion arenariae Géhu 1998; Ammophilion arenariae Tx. 1955; Ammophilion borealis Tx. 1955; Ammophilion borealis Tx. in Br.-Bl. et Tx. 1952; Elymo-Ammophilion (Tx. 1955) Oberd et al. 1967; Psammion arenariae Iversen 1936 (orig. form)	Schaminee et al, 2012

Species mentioned in habitat description

Not available

Other classifications

Classification	Code	Habitat type name	Relationship type
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 200112	16.21	Shifting dunes	same
CORINE Land Cover	3.3.1.	Beaches, dunes, and sand plains	n/a
Nordic Vegetation Classification 1994	4.1.3.1a	Dune grass variant of the Faroe islands and Iceland.	n/a
Phase 1 habitat classification (UK) 1993	H68	Sand-dune: open dune	wider

For relation to plant communities (syntaxa), see Vegetation types

History

Classification	Code	Habitat type name	Relationship type
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200410	B1.3	Shifting coastal dunes	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308	B1.3	Shifting coastal dunes	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202	B1.3	Shifting coastal dunes	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199910	B1.3	Shifting coastal dunes	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199811	B1.3	Shifting coastal dunes	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199712	B5.31	Shifting coastal dunes	same
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 199905	16.21	Shifting dunes	same
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1997	16.21	Shifting dunes	same
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1996	16.21		same
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1993	16.21		same
CORINE Biotopes Classification 1991	16.21		same
CORINE Biotopes Classification 1989	16.21		same

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