Habitats

About 50% of the Biosphere Reserve is water’s surface, with a lot of habitats like seagrass bancs wrack’s forests and ooze of calm water.

Moreover, the Reserve counts a lot of costal biotopes. With 101,5 km of coastal landscapes (57,8 km of gentle slopes and 43,7 km of steep slopes), those habitats have a great ecological value. The coastal landscapes of the Biosphere Reserve are actually under abrasion processes and material transport. Steep shale cliffs, on which grow a typical vegetation were shaped by the rise of water level, and mudslide. Those phenomenons had as a consequence the formation of rocky beaches (diameter above 20 cm) with glacial erratic, but also pebble beaches. Above the bank, sand cliffs were set downed.

The water flow has transported sand to the gentle slopes, which set downed and formed the peninsulas.

The coastal's Bodden are also made with steep banks and gentle slopes. Reed bed occurs when the slope is gentle and in one area, we can also see salt meadow sheep.

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