31.111 - Germano-Baltic Erica tetralix wet heaths

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Wet heaths and humid heaths of the British Isles, the Germano-Baltic plains and northern France, with principal areas of occurrence in the drier, eastern, lowlands of Britain and in the North Sea plain between northern Belgium and Schleswig-Holstein, extending to southwestern Belgium and northwestern France, to the confines of Normandy, to the montane level of the western Hercynian hills, in particular, the Ardennes, and, in the northeast, to the Prignitz, the Lausitz and western Poland, always rich in, and generally dominated by, Erica tetralix, sometimes by Calluna vulgaris, often in association with Molinia caerulea, accompanied by nonpeat-building sphagna, in particular, Sphagnum compactum, Sphagnum molle, Sphagnum tenellum, and by Zygogonium ericetorum; the cortŠge may include Gentiana pneumonanthe, Juncus squarrosus, Narthecium ossifragum, Drosera rotundifolia, Scirpus cespitosus ssp. germanicus, Carex panicea, Rhacomitrium lanuginosum, Dicranum scoparium.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Ericetum tetralicis, Oxycocco-Ericetum tetralicis, Calluno-Ericetum tetralicis

Bibliographie

Devillers P., Devillers-Terschuren J. & Vander Linden C., 2001. PHYSIS Palaearctic Habitat Classification Database. Updated to 10 December 2001. Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles, Bruxelles. (Source)

Lebrun & al., 1949: unit 120; Ellenberg, 1963; Depasse & al., 1970: 14-17; Géhu, 1973: 362-368, 373-374, 375; Westhoff and den Held, 1975: 213-214, 215-216; Noirfalise and Vanesse, 1976; De Sloover & al., 1978: 122-126; Gimingham & al., 1979: 385; Bournérias, 1979; Noirfalise & al., 1980: 25; de Smidt, 1981: 48, 49-55; Pi‚rart and Duvigneaud, 1982: 24; Nordiska ministerradet, 1984: units 5.1.2.1, 5.1.1.5b; Matuszkiewicz, 1984: 93, 184; Bournérias, 1984: 316-318; Ellenberg, 1988: 510-512, 667; Oberdorfer, 1990: 43; Rodwell, 1991b: units M16, M14 [p.]; Lambert & al., 1991: 66-68; Pott, 1992: 195; Julve, 1993: 104; Påhlsson, 1994: units 5.1.2.1, 5.1.1.5b, 5.1.1.5c [p.]; Drachenfels, 1994: unit 6.7.1; Riecken & al., 1994: 143; Schubert & al., 1995: 144; Frankard & al., 1998: 39.