EUNIS Littoral biogenic habitat types (salt marshes), distribution based on vegetation plot data - version 1, Nov. 2021

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This metadata corresponds to the EUNIS Littoral biogenic habitat types (salt marshes), distribution based on vegetation plot data dataset.

Littoral biogenic habitats (commonly known as salt marshes) are formed by animals such as worms and mussels or plants.

The verified saltmarsh habitat samples used are derived from the Braun-Blanquet database (http://www.sci.muni.cz/botany/vegsci/braun_blanquet.php?lang=en) which is a centralised database of vegetation plots and comprises copies of national and regional databases using a unified taxonomic reference database. The geographic extent of the distribution data are all European countries except Armenia and Azerbaijan. The dataset is provided both in Geodatabase and Geopackage formats.

Data and resources

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Direct download

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Vegetation Plot Layer

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EUNIS documentation for habitat classification

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Europen Environment Agency public website

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Additional information

Temporal extent	1940-01-01 – 2017-12-31
Date (creation)	2019-03-01
Date (publication)	2021-11-15
Status	onGoing
Update frequency	notPlanned
Metadata language	en
License	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Source metadata	ISO 19115 XML
Last updated	2026-11-04
Created	2026-11-04
API	package_show