Wadden Sea Quality Status Report

Photo: N. Hecker. Shell beach.

Habitats and communities

The Wadden Sea is continuously being shaped by wind, sand and tides. These natural processes, running uninterruptedly across the Wadden Sea, create islands, sandbanks, channels, mud flats, gullies, salt marshes and dunes.

This section gives in-depth analyses of the current states of the Wadden Sea's different habitats.