For Special Protection Areas (SPA),
Proposed Sites for Community Importance (pSCI),
Sites of Community Importance (SCI) and
for Special Areas of Conservation (SAC)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• 1. SITE IDENTIFICATION
• 2. SITE LOCATION
• 3. ECOLOGICAL INFORMATION
• 4. SITE DESCRIPTION
• 5. SITE PROTECTION STATUS
• 6. SITE MANAGEMENT
• 7. MAP OF THE SITE

1. SITE IDENTIFICATION

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1.1 Type

B

1.2 Site code

HR2001316

1.3 Site name

Karišnica i Bijela

1.4 First Compilation date

2012-12

1.5 Update date

2015-04

1.6 Respondent:

Name/Organisation:	Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development - MESD
Address:
Email:	zavod@mingor.hr

1.7 Site indication and designation / classification dates

Date site proposed as SCI:	2013-07
Date site confirmed as SCI:	2014-12
Date site designated as SAC:	No information provided
National legal reference of SAC designation:	No information provided

2. SITE LOCATION

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2.1 Site-centre location [decimal degrees]:

Longitude:	15.628000
Latitude:	44.123000

2.2 Area [ha]

348.4561

2.3 Marine area [%]

0.0000

2.4 Sitelength [km] (optional):

No information provided

2.5 Administrative region code and name

NUTS level 2 code	Region Name
HR03	Jadranska Hrvatska

2.6 Biogeographical Region(s)

Mediterranean

(0.00 %)

3. ECOLOGICAL INFORMATION

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3.1 Habitat types present on the site and assessment for them

Annex I Habitat types						Site assessment
Code	PF	NP	Cover [ha]	Cave [number]	Data quality	A|B|C|D	A|B|C
						Representativity	Relative Surface	Conservation	Global
1310			0	0.00	M	A	B	B	A
1410			0	0.00	M	A	C	B	B
1420			0	0.00	M	A	C	B	B
8310			0	2.00	M	B	C	B	C

• PF: for the habitat types that can have a non-priority as well as a priority form (6210, 7130, 9430) enter "X" in the column PF to indicate the priority form.
• NP: in case that a habitat type no longer exists in the site enter: x (optional)
• Cover: decimal values can be entered
• Caves: for habitat types 8310, 8330 (caves) enter the number of caves if estimated surface is not available.
• Data quality: G = 'Good' (e.g. based on surveys); M = 'Moderate' (e.g. based on partial data with some extrapolation); P = 'Poor' (e.g. rough estimation)

3.2 Species referred to in Article 4 of Directive 2009/147/EC and listed in Annex II of Directive 92/43/EEC and site evaluation for them

Species					Population in the site						Site assessment
G	Code	Scientific Name	S	NP	T	Size		Unit	Cat.	D.qual.	A|B|C|D	A|B|C
						Min	Max				Pop.	Con.	Iso.	Glo.
M	1310	Miniopterus schreibersii			r	2000	2400	i		G	B	B	C	B
M	1307	Myotis blythii			r	1000	3000	i		G	C	B	C	B
M	1316	Myotis capaccinii			c	10	90	i		G	C	B	C	C
I	6350	Proterebia afra dalmata			p				r	DD	C	B	C	B
M	1303	Rhinolophus hipposideros			w	1	10	i		M	C	B	C	C

• Group: A = Amphibians, B = Birds, F = Fish, I = Invertebrates, M = Mammals, P = Plants, R = Reptiles
• S: in case that the data on species are sensitive and therefore have to be blocked for any public access enter: yes
• NP: in case that a species is no longer present in the site enter: x (optional)
• Type: p = permanent, r = reproducing, c = concentration, w = wintering (for plant and non-migratory species use permanent)
• Unit: i = individuals, p = pairs or other units according to the Standard list of population units and codes in accordance with Article 12 and 17 reporting (see reference portal)
• Abundance categories (Cat.): C = common, R = rare, V = very rare, P = present - to fill if data are deficient (DD) or in addition to population size information
• Data quality: G = 'Good' (e.g. based on surveys); M = 'Moderate' (e.g. based on partial data with some extrapolation); P = 'Poor' (e.g. rough estimation); VP = 'Very poor' (use this category only, if not even a rough estimation of the population size can be made, in this case the fields for population size can remain empty, but the field "Abundance categories" has to be filled in)

3.3 Other important species of flora and fauna (optional)

No information provided

4. SITE DESCRIPTION

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4.1 General site character

Habitat class	% Cover
N08	0.48
N09	71.89
N15	1.25
N17	22.52
N23	3.86
Total Habitat Cover	100

Other Site Characteristics

Site is located between the Gornji and DonjiKarin 10 kilometers north of the town of Benkovac in Zadar County. The area has several separate units: wider area of river Karišnica (recent stream and valley, and the area of ​​the canyon above the former river) to the estuary at Karin Beach, a length of about 3 km; Canyon and the Bijela stream, from the spring to the estuary at Karin Beach, a length of about 3.5 km; Tuvina - marshy coastal zone of Karin Sea, the area where the estuaries of Bijela and Karišnica merge; and Brežine, hill that separate lower flows of Karišnica and Bijela. The area is characterized by a mosaic of many different habitats caused by morphological diversity, i.e. by dynamic change of wetland, coastal and mountainous terrain. Another factor for diversity of habitats in the area is man, whose longtime influence and use of this space resulted with secondary and different types of habitats - pastures, meadows, small orchards and olive groves. The area has a dual character of climate change of extremely dry and rainy part of the year. Habitats: occasional Mediterranean wetlands (Tuvina), planted Aleppo pine forests of different ages, different stages of oak and hornbeam forest degradation (with all the transitional forms of rocky pastures, through shrubland to low forest), and smaller areas under extensively cultivated olive groves, rocky pastures and eu- and stenomediteranean dry grasslands and sub-mediterranean and epi-mediteranean dry grasslands. Minor surface of wet meadows of sub-Mediterranean vegetation zones. Steep bare cliffs, poorly vegetated gullies, rocky terrain and bramble. Travertine barriers and waterfalls (River Bijela), underground habitats (source caves of Karišnica and Bijela) that throughout the year maintains a certain amount of water, aquatic rooted vegetation along the stream Karišnica in the rainy period. The area is protected as a Significant landscape.

4.2 Quality and importance

- site is important for butterfly species Proterebia afra dalmata - important site for Salicornia and other annuals colonizing mud and sand - Izvor Karišnice represents important 8310 site - important underground habitat for aquatic taxa (Troglocaris agg. anophtalmus, Sphaeromides virei mediodalmatina); - Izvor rijeke Bijele represents important large Miniopterus schreibersii and Myotis blythii nursery;important Myotis capaccinii migration site; important Rhinolophus hipposideros hibernaculum; internationally important underground site for Myotis/myotis blythii, Miniopterus schreibersii, Myotis capaccinii and Rhinolophus hipposideros

4.3 Threats, pressures and activities with impacts on the site

The most important impacts and activities with high effect on the site

4.4 Ownership (optional)

No information provided

4.5 Documentation (optional)

EUROBATS Publication Series No. 6: Conservation of Key Underground Sites. www.eurobats.org/publications/eurobats_publication_series Koren, T., Burić, I., Štih, A., Zakšek, V. i Verovnik, R. (2010): New data about the distribution and altitudinal span of the dalmatian ringlet, Proterebia afra dalmata (Godart, 1824) (Lepidoptera: Satyrinae) in Croatia. Acta Entomologica Slovenica, 18, 143-150. Hamidović, D. (2007): Izvještaj s uviđaja šišmiša u kanjonu rijeke Bijele, špilja izvor rijeke Bijele. Hamidović, D. (2008): Zaštita dugonogog šišmiša, Myotis capaccinii, za zaštitu krškog staništa. Hrvatsko biospeleološko društvo. Zagreb. Ozimec, R. i sur. (2007): Popis biospeleološki važnih speleoloških objekata. Hrvatsko biospeleološko društvo. Zagreb. Pavlinić, I. i Đaković, M. (2010): Znanstvena analiza dvanaest vrsta šišmiša s Dodatka II Direktive o zaštiti prirodnih staništa i divlje faune i flore za potrebe prijedloga potencijalnih NATURA 2000 područja za šišmiše. Hrvatski prirodoslovni muzej. Zagreb. Župan, D. i Leko, K. (2009): Značajni krajobraz Karišnica i Bijela. Stručna podloga za zaštitu. Državni Zavod za Zaštitu Prirode, Zagreb. Žvorc, P. i Hamidović, D. (2012): Monitoring šišmiša u špiljama Izvor rijeke Bijele i Golubnjača. Hrvatsko biospeleološko društvo. Zagreb. Žvorc P. (2013): Monitoring faune šišmiša u špilji Izvor rijeke Bijele 2013. godine. Hrvatsko biospeleološko društvo. Zagreb.

5. SITE PROTECTION STATUS

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6. SITE MANAGEMENT

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6.1 Body(ies) responsible for the site management:

No information provided

6.2 Management Plan(s):

An actual management plan does exist:

	Yes
	No, but in preparation
X	No

6.3 Conservation measures (optional)

No information provided

 

7. MAP OF THE SITE

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INSPIRE ID:
Map delivered as PDF in electronic format (optional)
Yes X No

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