Atlantic and Baltic soft sea cliff

Coastal loamy cliffs, with a bedrock of clays, shales or loamy sands, erode much quicker than cliffs with a hard bedrock, and therefore usually have a less steep slope and are often unstable. Along the Atlantic and Baltic coasts, they harbour relatively common and widespread species, even though a range of different micro-habitats may be found with ephemeral plant communities on the bare sediments, rank grasslands and scrub on more stable ground and flush vegetation around seepages.

Código Eunis 2021: N34