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Habitats (A-Z)

Browse available information on habitats (as biotopes) and their sensitivity to man-made pressures. Habitats are listed from A to Z by the Marine Habitat Classification for Britain and Ireland (v22.04) biotope name (JNCC, 2022).

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Deep sponge communities missing

 Deep sponge communities

Dendrodoa grossularia and Clathrina coriacea on wave-surged vertical infralittoral rock

 Dendrodoa grossularia and Clathrina coriacea on wave-surged vertical infralittoral rock

Dense brittlestars with sparse Ascidia mentula and Ciona intestinalis on sheltered circalittoral mixed substrata

 Dense brittlestars with sparse Ascidia mentula and Ciona intestinalis on sheltered circalittoral mixed substrata

Dense Desmarestia spp. with filamentous red seaweeds on exposed infralittoral cobbles, pebbles and bedrock missing

 Dense Desmarestia spp. with filamentous red seaweeds on exposed infralittoral cobbles, pebbles and bedrock

Dense foliose red seaweeds on silty moderately exposed infralittoral rock missing

 Dense foliose red seaweeds on silty moderately exposed infralittoral rock

Dense Lanice conchilega and other polychaetes in tide-swept infralittoral sand and mixed gravelly sand

 Dense Lanice conchilega and other polychaetes in tide-swept infralittoral sand and mixed gravelly sand

Discrete Lophelia pertusa colonies on Atlantic mid bathyal rock and other hard substrata missing

 Discrete Lophelia pertusa colonies on Atlantic mid bathyal rock and other hard substrata

Discrete Lophelia pertusa colonies on Atlantic upper bathyal rock and other hard substrata missing

 Discrete Lophelia pertusa colonies on Atlantic upper bathyal rock and other hard substrata

Discrete Solenosmilia variabilis colonies on Atlantic lower bathyal coarse sediment missing

 Discrete Solenosmilia variabilis colonies on Atlantic lower bathyal coarse sediment

Discrete Solenosmilia variabilis colonies on Atlantic lower bathyal rock and other hard substrata missing

 Discrete Solenosmilia variabilis colonies on Atlantic lower bathyal rock and other hard substrata

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