The forests of occasionally flooded areas on river and stream floodplains, as well as on temporarily flooded lake shores, where the soil is enriched with the sediments of flood water. The species composition and structure of the forest depends on the part of the floodplain it grows on. Alluvial forests have formed on the lower parts of the floodplain, i.e. the parts that remain under the flood...

This habitat type includes areas with good water supply and nutrient-rich soft soil humus in the valleys, depressions, foothills, and the edges of bogs with near-surface mobile groundwater. The tree layer is dominated by spruce, but broad-leaved species (ash, linden, elm, maple) may also be present, the share of which is quite large in some places. The species-rich grass layer is formed primarily...

In Estonia, this habitat type includes the dry boreo-nemoral forests growing on the tops and slopes of eskers, moraine hills, and drumlins. The vegetation of the dry boreo-nemoral forests is similar to that of fresh boreo-nemoral forests on the one hand (that is caused by nutrient-rich soil) and to the alvar forests on the other hand (on the sunny slopes and tops, the soil may completely dry out...

In a wooded pasture, open grassland areas alternate with sparse forest, tree or shrub patches. The grass layer, which consists mainly of grassland plants, has developed under the influence of long-term grazing and will only survive if normal use continues. Broad-leaved species (for example, oaks) often grow in the tree layer, and pasture grasses (tufted hairgrass, spear thistle, etc.) stand out in...

Natural or semi-natural (once man-made) pine forests, less often alder forests on coastal dunes. The tree layer and the undergrowth are well developed, the shrub layer is absent or consists mainly of juniper. This habitat type is found more on the South-Western Estonian coast from Ikla to Pärnu, in Northern and North-Western Estonia (Nõva, Roosta, Naissaare), but also elsewhere on the old coastal...