Priority habitats
The Llobregat delta has habitats and flora species which are protected by European directives. The protected areas shelter 20 natural habitats of European community interest, three of which have been declared as priority interest with the aim to preserve them. These habitats are related to boggy grounds and sandy soils in the littoral. Lagoons with sunken vegetation, salty flora and reeds, dunes with their typical vegetation, and stone pine groves on dunes stand out in these priority habitats.
The habitats of priority interest are:
- Coastal lagoons with absorbent vegetation
- Dunes with stone pine forests
- Calcareous fens with Cladium mariscus
Other habitats of community interest are:
On saline soils:
- Salicornia and other annuals colonising mud and sand
- Spartina swards
- Mediterranean salt meadows (communities of Limonium)
- Mediterranean a halophilous scrubs of glasswort
- Halo-nitrophilous scrubs of herbaceous seepweed and mediterranean saltbush
- Formations of annuals occupying accumulations of drift material and gravel of european searocket
On sandy soils, different formations of dunes:
- Embryonic shifting dunes
- Shifting dunes along the shoreline with Ammophila arenaria
- Humid dune slacks
- Crucianellion maritimae fixed beach dunes
On more or less flooded areas:
- Low land lagoons with helofitic vegetation (reeds, bulrush, rushes)
- Riparian forests of the Mediterranean basin dominated for poplar, elms and willows
- Populations of freshwater green algae or Chara sp., in calcareous lagoons of clean water
- Communities of non-woody plants in rivers with muddy banks
With the collaboration of:
Plaça de l'Agricultura, 4 08820 El Prat de Llobregat Tel. 93 479 32 01 - Fax. 93 478 39 03 - administracio@consorcidelta.org © Consorci per a la Protecció i la Gestió dels Espais Naturals del Delta del Llobregat