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Habitat audit


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In this section is a review of all the UK priority habitats found in Yorkshire and the Humber.

More information on the Habitat Audit

Woodlands

Upland oak woodland

Upland mixed ashwood

Wet woodlands

Lowland wood pastures and parkland

Ancient and/or species-rich hedgerows

Cereal field margins

Neutral grassland

Lowland meadows

Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh

Upland hay meadows

Calcareous grassland

Lowland dry acid grassland

Lowland heathland

Upland heathland

Purple moor grass and rush pastures

Fens

Reedbeds

Lowland raised bog

Blanket bog

Mesotrophic standing waters

Eutrophic standing waters

Chalk rivers

Limestone pavement

Maritime cliffs and slopes

Coastal vegetated shingle

Coastal saltmarsh

Coastal sand dune

Mudflats

Sheltered muddy gravels

Sea-grass beds

Saline lagoons

Chalk coast

Sabellaria spinulosa reefs

Horse mussel beds

Sublittoral sands and gravels