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Montagne de Val-Haut - Clues de Barles - Clues de Verdaches

Quick facts

  • Natura 2000 site (code FR9301535)
  • Under Habitats Directive
  • Since Mon Apr 01 00:00:00 UTC 2002
  • Country: France
  • Administrative region: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (FR82)
  • Surface area: 132 km2 (13197.00 ha)
  • Marine area: 0%
  • Located in Alpine and Mediterranean biogeographical regions
  • It protects 19 species of the Nature Directives
  • It protects 25 habitat types of the Habitats Directive

Source and more information: Natura 2000 Standard Data Form


Species

Species summary

Nature directives' species in this site (19)
Species group Number
Fishes 2
Flowering Plants 1
Invertebrates 7
Mammals 8
Reptiles 1

Habitat types

Habitat type code Habitat type english name Cover [ha]
3140 Hard oligo-mesotrophic waters with benthic vegetation of Chara spp 0
3220 Alpine rivers and the herbaceous vegetation along their banks 101
3240 Alpine rivers and their ligneous vegetation with Salix elaeagnos 77.42
4060 Alpine and Boreal heaths 592
4090 Endemic oro-Mediterranean heaths with gorse 55
5110 Stable xero-thermophilous formations with Buxus sempervirens on rock slopes (Berberidion pp) 366
5130 Juniperus communis formations on heaths or calcareous grasslands 33
5210 Arborescent matorral with Juniperus spp 144
6110 Rupicolous calcareous or basophilic grasslands of the Alysso-Sedion albi 1
6170 Alpine and subalpine calcareous grasslands 777
6210 Semi-natural dry grasslands and scrubland facies on calcareous substrates (Festuco-Brometalia) (* important orchid sites) 739
6230 Species-rich Nardus grasslands, on silicious substrates in mountain areas (and submountain areas in Continental Europe) 518
6510 Lowland hay meadows (Alopecurus pratensis, Sanguisorba officinalis) 212
6520 Mountain hay meadows 98
7230 Alkaline fens 0.38
8120 Calcareous and calcshist screes of the montane to alpine levels (Thlaspietea rotundifolii) 924
8130 Western Mediterranean and thermophilous scree 1263
8210 Calcareous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation 225
8220 Siliceous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation 0.1
9150 Medio-European limestone beech forests of the Cephalanthero-Fagion 493
9180 Tilio-Acerion forests of slopes, screes and ravines 13.58
91E0 Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Padion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae) 85
92A0 Salix alba and Populus alba galleries 13
9430 Subalpine and montane Pinus uncinata forests (* if on gypsum or limestone) 11.1
9560 Endemic forests with Juniperus spp 6.96

Designation information

NATURA 2000 is the ecological network for the conservation of wild animals and plant species and natural habitats of Community importance within the Union. It consists of sites classified under the Birds Directive and the Habitats Directive (the Nature Directives).

NATURA 2000 site under

Birds Directive 2009/147/EC (SPA) Not under Birds directive
 
Habitats Directive 92/43/EEC (SCI) Under Habitats directive
  • Date proposed as Site of Community Importance (SCI)
Mon Apr 01 00:00:00 UTC 2002
  • Date confirmed as Site of Community Importance
Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 UTC 2006
 
Date designated as Special Area of Conservation (SAC) Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 UTC 2010
 
Date of Standard data form update Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 UTC 2021

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