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Habitats table

In APIS we have provided pollution impact records for main habitat types. This table relate the habitats used in APIS to UK Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) habitats (broad and priority), the Habitats Directive (Annex 1 habitats occurring in the UK) and EUNIS classifications. classifications. For completeness other habitats have been added that have no BAP or Habitats Directive classification, but do experience air pollution impacts.

For pollutants that have a broad ecosystem record in APIS (e.g. heavy metals, VOCs, halogens, dusts and POPs), the habitat-ecosystem link is also shown.
APIS Habitat APIS broad ecosystem Habitats Directive Annex 1 BAP (priority habitats and broad habitats*) EUNIS Code
Oak woodland Woodland and hedgerow
  • Sub-Atlantic and medio-European oak or oak-hornbeam forests of the Carpinion betuli (9160)
  • Old acidophilous oak woods with Quercus robur on sandy plains (9190)
  • Old sessile oak woods with Ilex and Blechnum in the British Isles (91A0)
    		•
  • Upland oakwood
  • Lowland mixed deciduous woodland
  • Broadleaved, mixed and yew woodland*
    		•  G1.4, G1.8
    Beech woodland
    Woodland and hedgerow
  • Atlantic acidophilous beech forests with Ilex and sometimes also Taxus in the shrublayer (Quercion robori-petraeae or Ilici-Fagenion) (9120)
  • Asperulo-Fagetum beech forests (9130)
    		•
  • Lowland beech and yew woodland
  • Broadleaved, mixed and yew woodland*
    		•
    G1.6
    Ash woodland
    Woodland and hedgerow
    		 * Tilio-Acerion forests of slopes, screes and ravines (9180)
  • Upland mixed ashwoods
  • Lowland mixed deciduous woodland
  • Broadleaved, mixed and yew woodland*
    		•
    G1.2, G.21, G1.A25
    Birch woodland
    Woodland and hedgerow
  • Bog woodland (91D0)
    		•
  • Upland birchwoods
  • Broadleaved, mixed and yew woodland*
    		•
    G1, G1.51, G1.81, G1.91, G1.912
    Planted coniferous woodland
    Woodland and hedgerow
    		 n/a
  • Coniferous woodland*
    		•
    G3
    Native pine woodland
    Woodland and hedgerow
  • Caledonian forest
    		•
  • Native pine woodlands
  • Coniferous woodland*
    		•
    G3.4, G3.41
    Lowland wood pastures and parklands
    Woodland and hedgerow
    		 n/a
  • Lowland wood-pasture and parkland
  • Broadleaved, mixed and yew woodland*
    • G1, E5, E7
    Ancient/species-rich hedgerows
    Woodland and hedgerow
    		 n/a
  • Hedgerows
  • Boundary and linear features*
    		•
    FA.3
    Arable crops
    Arable
    		 n/a
  • Arable field margins
  • Arable and horticultural*
    • I1
    Improved grassland
    Arable
    		 n/a
  • Improved grassland*
    		•
    I1
    Unimproved hay meadow
    Grassland
  • Lowland hay meadows (Alopecurus pratensis, Sanguisorba officinalis) (6510)
  • Mountain hay meadows (6520)
  • Neutral grassland*
    		•
  • Lowland meadows
  • Upland hay meadows
    		•
    E2.2, E2.3
    Acid grassland
    Grassland
  • Species-rich Nardus grassland, on siliceous substrates in mountain areas (and submountain areas in continental Europe) (6230)
    		•
  • Lowland dry acid grassland
  • Acid grassland*
    		•
    E1.7, E1.8
    E1.9, E3.5 E3.51
    E3.52
    E4.3
    Calcareous grassland
    Grassland
  • Alpine and subalpine calcareous grasslands (6170)
  • Semi-natural dry grasslands and scrubland facies: on calcareous substrates (Festuco-Brometalia) (6210)
  • Semi-natural dry grasslands and scrubland facies: on calcareous substrates (Festuco-Brometalia) (important orchid sites) (6211)
  • Lowland calcareous grassland
  • Upland calcareous grassland
  • Calcareous grassland*
    		•
    E1.26, E1.27, E4.4
    Lowland heathland
    Bogs, wetland and heath
  • Temperate Atlantic wet heaths with Erica ciliaris and Erica tetralix (4020)
  • European dry heaths (4030)
  • Northern Atlantic wet heaths with Erica tetralix (4010)
  • Dry Atlantic coastal heaths with Erica vagans (4040)
  • Lowland heathland
    • B1.5, F4.11, F4.2
    Upland heathland
    Bogs, wetland and heath
  • Northern Atlantic wet heaths with Erica tetralix (4010)
  • European dry heaths (4030)
    		•
  • Upland heathland
    		•
    F4.11, F4.2
    Grazing marsh
    Grassland
    		 n/a
  • Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh
    • B
    Alkaline fens and reedbeds
    Bogs, wetland and heath
  • Alkaline fens (7230)
  • Transition mires and quaking bogs (7140)
  • Lowland Fens
  • Reedbeds
  • Upland flushes, fens and swamps
    		•
    D2.2, D4.1, D4.2
    Raised bog and blanket bog
    Bogs, wetland and heath
  • Active raised bogs (7110)
  • Blanket bogs (7130)
  • Transition mires and quaking bogs (7140)
  • Degraded raised bogs still capable of natural regeneration (7120)
    		•
  • Blanket bog
  • Lowland raised bog
    		•
    D.1.1, D1.2
    Mesotrophic standing waters
    Freshwater
  • Oligotrophic to mesotrophic standing waters with vegetation of the Littorelletea uniflorae and/or of the Isoëto-Nanojuncetea (3130)
  • Hard oligo-mesotrophic waters with benthic vegetation of Chara spp. (3140)
  • Mesotrophic lakes
    		•
    C1.62, C1.2
    Eutrophic standing waters
    Freshwater
  • Natural eutrophic lakes with Magnopotamion or Hydrocharition-type vegetation (3150)
    		•
  • Eutrophic standing waters
    		•
    C1.3, C1.63
    Aquifer-fed waterbodies (inc. turloughs)
    Freshwater
  • Turloughs (3180)
    		•
  • Aquifer fed naturally fluctuating water bodies
    		•
    C1.67
    Rivers and burns
    Freshwater
  • Water courses of plain to montane levels with the Ranunculion fluitantis and Callitricho-Batrachion vegetation (3260)
    		•
  • Chalk rivers
  • Rivers and streams*
    • C2
    Montane heaths and scrubs
    Bogs, wetland and heath
  • Alpine and Boreal heaths (4060)
  • Sub-Arctic Salix spp. scrub (4080)
  • Siliceous alpine and boreal grasslands (6150)
    		•
  • Mountain heaths and willow scrub
  • Montane habitats*
    		•
    F2, E4.2
    Shingle, rocks and cliffs
    Coastal and rocky habitats
  • Calcareous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation (8210)
  • Siliceous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation (8220)
  • Vegetated sea cliffs of the Atlantic and Baltic coasts (1230)
  • Stable xerothermophilous formations with Buxus sempervirens on rock slopes (Berberidion p.p.) (5110)
  • Annual vegetation of drift lines (1210)
  • Perennial vegetation of stony banks (1220)
  • Maritime cliff and slopes
  • Inland rock outcrop and scree habitats
  • Coastal Vegetated Shingle
    		•
    A2.11, B2, B3
    Machair
    Grassland
  • Machairs (21A0)
    		•
  • Machair
    		•
    B1.9, X27
    Saltmarsh
    Coastal and rocky habitats
  • Atlantic salt meadows (Glauco-Puccinellietalia maritimae) (1330)
  • Inland salt meadows (1340)
  • Mediterranean and thermo-Atlantic halophilous scrubs (Sarcocornetea fruticosi) (1420)
  • Coastal saltmarsh
    		•
    A2.6, D6.1
    Sand dunes
    Coastal and rocky habitats
  • Shifting dunes along the shoreline with Ammophila arenaria ('white dunes') (2120)
  • Embryonic shifting dunes (2110)
  • Fixed dunes with herbaceous vegetation ('grey dunes') (2130)
  • Decalcified fixed dunes with Empetrum nigrum (2140)
  • Atlantic decalcified fixed dunes (Calluno-Ulicetea) (2150)
  • Dunes with Hippophae rhamnoides (2160)
  • Dunes with Salix repens ssp. argentea (Salicion arenariae) (2170)
  • Humid dune slacks (2190)
  • Coastal sand dunes
    		•
    B1, B1.3, B1.4, B1.5, B1.8, E1.94, E1.95
    Urban woodland
    Woodland and hedgerow
    		 n/a n/a
    G, I2
    Urban grasslands
    Grassland
    		 n/a n/a
    I2
    Limestone pavements
    Coastal and rocky habitats
  • Limestone pavements (8240)
    		•
  • Limestone pavements
    		•
    H3.5, H3.511
    Oligotrophic standing waters
    Freshwater
  • Oligotrophic waters containing very few minerals of sandy plains (Littorelletalia uniflorae) (3110)
  • Oligotrophic to mesotrophic standing waters with vegetation of the Littorelletea uniflorae and/or of the Isoëto-Nanojuncetea (3130)
  • Hard oligo-mesotrophic waters with benthic vegetation of Chara spp (3140)
    		• n/a
    C1.1, C1.16
    Scree
    Coastal and rocky habitats
  • Siliceous scree of the montane to snow levels (Androsacetalia alpinae and Galeopsietalia ladani) (8110)
  • Calcareous and calcshist screes of the montane to alpine levels (Thlaspietea rotundifolii) (8120)
    		•  n/a
    H2, H2.31, H2.41
     

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