Salt-marsh communities in the British National Vegetation Classification system
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This article gives an overview of the salt-marsh communities in the British National Vegetation Classification
system.
) and vegetation of open habitats
.
In total, 28 salt-marsh communities have been identified.
The salt-marsh communities consist of four separate subgroups:
British National Vegetation Classification
The British National Vegetation Classification or NVC is a system of classifying natural habitat types in Great Britain according to the vegetation they contain....
system.
Introduction
The salt-marsh communities of the NVC were described in Volume 5 of British Plant Communities, first published in 2000, along with the other maritime communities (those of shingle strandline and sand-dunes and maritime cliffsMaritime cliff communities in the British National Vegetation Classification system
This article gives an overview of the maritime cliff communities in the British National Vegetation Classification system.-Introduction:The maritime cliff communities of the NVC were described in Volume 5 of British Plant Communities, first published in 2000, along with the other maritime...
) and vegetation of open habitats
Vegetation of open habitats in the British National Vegetation Classification system
This article gives an overview of the plant communities formed by vegetation of open habitats in the British National Vegetation Classification system.-Introduction:...
.
In total, 28 salt-marsh communities have been identified.
The salt-marsh communities consist of four separate subgroups:
- three eel-grass and tassel-weed communities of tidal flats, pools and ditches (SM1, SM2 and SM3)
- thirteen communities of the lower salt-marsh (SM4, SM5, SM6, SM7, SM8, SM9, SM10, SM11, SM12, SM13, SM14, SM15 and SM26)
- nine communities of the middle salt-marsh (SM16, SM17, SM18, SM19, SM20, SM21, SM22, SM23 and SM27)
- three communities of the upper salt-marsh (SM24British NVC community SM24British NVC community SM24 is one of the salt-marsh communities in the British National Vegetation Classification system.This community is found in a number of coastal areas, but is not recorded from Scotland...
, SM25 and SM28)
Other communities occurring on salt-marshes
There are a number of other communities which occur on salt-marshes, but are not classified as salt-marsh communities within the NVC. Those listed in British Plant Communities are as follows:List of salt-marsh communities
The following is a list of the communities that make up this category:- SM1 Zostera communities Zosterion Christiansen 1934British NVC community SM1 (Zostera communities)British NVC community SM1 is one of the salt-marsh communities in the British National Vegetation Classification system.This community is found very widely around Britain's coastline...
- SM2 Ruppia maritima salt-marsh community Ruppietum maritimae Hocquette 1927
- SM3 Eleocharis parvula salt-marsh community Eleocharitetum parvulae (Preuss 1911/12) Gillner 1960
- SM4 Spartina maritima salt-marsh community Spartinetum maritimae (Emb. & Regn. 1926) Corillion 1953
- SM5 Spartina alterniflora salt-marsh community Spartinetum alterniflorae Corillion 1953
- SM6 Spartina anglica salt-marsh community Spartinetum townsendii (Tansley 1939) Corillion 1953
- SM7 Arthrocnemum perenne stands
- SM8 Annual Salicornia salt-marsh community Salicornietum europaeae Warming 1906
- SM9 Suaeda maritima salt-marsh community Suaedetum maritimae (Conrad 1935) Pignatti 1953
- SM10 Transitional low-marsh vegetation with Puccinellia maritima, annual Salicornia species and Suaeda maritima
- SM11 Aster tripolium var. discoideus salt-marsh community Asteretum tripolii Tansley 1939
- SM12 Rayed Aster tripolium on salt-marshes
- SM13 Puccinellia maritima salt-marsh community Puccinellietum maritimae (Warming 1906) Christiansen 1927
- SM14 Halimione portaculoides salt-marsh community Halimionetum portulacoidis (Kuhnholtz-Lordat 1927) Des Abbayes & Corillion 1949
- SM15 Juncus maritimus - Triglochin maritima salt-marsh community
- SM16 Festuca rubra salt-marsh community Juncetum gerardi Warming 1906
- SM17 Artemisia maritima salt-marsh community Artemisietum maritimae Hocquette 1927
- SM18 Juncus maritimus salt-marsh community
- SM19 Blysmus rufus salt-marsh community Blysmetum rufi (G.E. & G. Du Rietz 1925) Gillner 1960
- SM20 Eleocharis uniglumis salt-marsh community Eleocharitetum uniglumis Nordhagen 1923
- SM21 Suaeda vera - Limonium binervosum salt-marsh community
- SM22 Halimione portulacoides - Frankenia laevis salt-marsh community Limonio vulgaris - Frankenietum laevis Géhu & Géhu-Franck 1975
- SM23 Spergularia marina - Puccinellia distans salt-marsh community Puccinellietum distantis Feekes (1934) 1945
- SM24 Elymus pycnanthus salt-marsh community Atriplici-Elymetum pycnanthi Beeftink & Westhoff 1962
- SM25 Suaeda vera drift-line community Elymo pycnanthi - Suaedetum verae (Arènes 1933) Géhu 1975
- SM26 Inula crithmoides on salt-marshes
- SM27 Ephermeral salt-marsh vegetation with Sagina maritima Saginion maritimae Westhoff, van Leeuwen & Adriani 1962
- SM28 Elymus repens salt-marsh community Elymetum repentis maritimum Nordhagen 1940