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Protected species and habitat types
In focus
Habitat types
Fifteen habitat types are in the focus of the LIFE Integrated Project „Atlantic Region DE“. These habitat types are home to specific wildlife and plant species and are created or optimized during the runtime of the Project. The various habitat types are shortly presented in the fact sheets linked below.
The number given in brackets in each heading refers to the EU code for the habitat type according to the Habitats Directive.

2310
Dry sand heaths with Calluna and Genista

2320
Dry sand heaths with Calluna and Empetrum nigrum

2330
Inland dunes with open Corynephorus and Agrostis grasslands

3110
Oligotrophic waters containing very few minerals of sandy plains (Littorelletalia uniflorae)

3130
Oligotrophic to mesotrophic standing waters with vegetation of the Littorelletea uniflorae and/or of the Isoeto-Nanojuncetea

3160
Natural dystrophic lakes and ponds

4010
Northern Atlantic wet heaths with Erica tetralix

4030
European dry heaths

5130
Juniperus communis formations on heaths or calcareous grasslands

6230
Species-rich Nardus grasslands, on silicious substrates in mountain areas

7110
Active raised bogs

7120
Degraded raised bogs still capable of natural regeneration

7140
Transition mires and quaking bogs

7150
Depressions on peat substrates of the Rhynchosporion

91D0