MA225 Atlantic pioneer saltmarshes
Description
Patchy non-hydrophytic, halophilous communities, comprising both clonal perennial plants, like Spartina maritima, and annual, like Salicornia, pioneeringly colonising the outer margins of the innermost, everyday submersed estuarine mudflats (‘slikke’). They initiate the process of sediment retention and gradual buildup of terraces leading to MA224 and, ultimately, MA223.
Floristic Composition
Frequent species
Spartina maritima 1,
Salicornia europaea 0.19084,
Suaeda maritima 0.152672,
Halimione portulacoides 0.122137,
Sarcocornia perennis 0.0839695,
Limonium vulgare 0.0687023,
Puccinellia maritima 0.0534351
Indicator species
Regional distribution
