Priority Habitats
- Rivers
- Oligotrophic and dystrophic Lakes
- Ponds
- Mesotrophic lakes
- Eutrophic standing waters
- Aquifer fed naturally fluctuating water bodies
- Arable field margins
- Hedgerows
- Traditional orchards
- Wood-pasture and parkland
- Upland oakwood
- Lowland beech and yew woodland
- Upland mixed ashwoods
- Wet woodland
- Lowland mixed deciduous woodland
- Upland birchwoods
- Native pine woodlands
- Lowland dry acid grassland
- Lowland calcareous grassland
- Upland calcareous grassland
- Lowland meadows
- Upland hay meadows
- Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh
- Lowland heathland
- Upland heathland
- Upland flushes, fens and swamps
- Purple moor grass and rush pastures
- Lowland fens
- Reedbeds
- Lowland raised bog
- Blanket bog
- Mountain heaths and willow scrub
- Inland rock outcrop and scree habitats
- Calaminarian grasslands
- Open mosaic habitats on previously developed land
- Limestone pavement
- Maritime cliff and slopes
- Coastal vegetated shingle
- Machair
- Coastal sand dunes
- Intertidal chalk
- Intertidal boulder communities
- Sabellaria alveolata reefs
- Coastal saltmarsh
- Intertidal mudflats
- Seagrass beds
- Sheltered muddy gravels
- Peat and clay exposures
- Subtidal chalk
- Tide-swept channels
- Fragile sponge & anthozoan communities on subtidal rocky habitats
- Estuarine rocky habitats
- Seamount communities
- Carbonate mounds
- Cold-water coral reefs
- Deep-sea sponge communities
- Sabellaria spinulosa reefs
- Subtidal sands and gravels
- Horse mussel beds
- Mud habitats in deep water
- File shell beds
- Maerl beds
- Serpulid reefs
- Blue mussel beds
- Saline lagoons
Read more about this topic: United Kingdom Biodiversity Action Plan
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