37.21F - Calcareous dunal small reed fens

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Communities of calcareous wet dune slacks dominated by Calamagrostis epigejos, in particular, Calamagrostis epigejos-dominated facies and evolution stages of the Juncus subnodulosus formations of unit 37.218, characteristic of northern French and Belgian dunes and rare fen formations of the Dutch North Sea Islands formed by Carex hartmanii, Calamagrostis epigejos, Carex trinervis, Ophioglossum vulgatum, Salix repens, evolution stage with light sand covering of the fen communities of unit 54.2H2.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Ophioglosso-Calamagrostietum epigeji, Calamagrostio epigeji-Juncetum obtusiflori p., i.a.

Bibliography

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)

Duvigneaud, 1947; Lambinon, 1955: 122-124; Herbauts, 1971: 57-61; Westhoff and Den Held, 1975: 205-206; Westhoff and Van Oosten, 1991: 138, 210; Julve, 1993: 73.