Coastal
The Atlantic coasts also comprise long stretches where mountains and rocky landscapes border the sea. Such landscapes are most characteristic of the Atlantic part of for instance the Iberian Peninsula and the Norwegian coasts, large stretches of Ireland and Scotland and the Faroe Islands, in France along the peninsula of Brittany. Where the sea penetrates into the land in valleys or meets the rivers in estuaries, special landscapes are formed, some with long history and still existing old habitat management. The Spanish rias and the Norwegian fjords are examples of such landscapes. The following habitats occur in this ecosystem: Estuaries, Salicornia and other annuals colonizing mud and sand, Shifting dunes along the shoreline with Ammophila arenaria ("white dunes"), Fixed coastal dunes with herbaceous vegetation ("grey dunes"), Humid dune slacks, Atlantic salt meadows (Glauco-Puccinellietalia maritimae) (European Environment Agency, Europe’s biodiversity, The Atlantic region - ETC/NPB).
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- Lime-rich and lime-poor coastal dunes: Natural blowout activity differs with sensitivity to high N deposition through differences in P availability to the vegetation
- Small scale wind erosion for the benefit of coastal dune grasslands
- Grazing as a conservation management tool: Responses of voles to grazer species and densities
- Restoration of grey dunes through small-scale aeolian dynamics
- Molecular identification of temperate Cricetidae and Muridae rodent species using fecal samples collected in a natural habitat
- Rotation grazing as a conservation management tool: Vegetation changes after six years of application in a salt marsh ecosystem
- Salinity‐induced increase of the hydraulic conductivity in the hyporheic zone of coastal wetlands
- Development of island tails Geomorphology, water cycle and vegetation
- Grazing management in relation to the restoration of fauna communities in dry dune meadows End report 2009-2013