44.A13 - Meso-acidophilous birch swamp woods

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Sphagnum-rich Betula pubescens or Betula carpatica woods of the boreal and nemoral western Palaearctic in which the presence of species characteristic of subhumid mineral soils indicate a transition towards acidophilous birch and oak woods; Salix cinerea, Alnus glutinosa, Lysimachia vulgaris, Luzula sylvatica, Oxalis acetosella, Deschampsia flexuosa may be prominent, next to Molinia caerulea. Conifers, mostly Picea abies, may participate in the canopy of boreal and subboreal communities.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Dryopterido thelypteridi-Betuletum pubescentis 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)

De Zuttere, 1975: 11-12; Mériaux & al., 1978; Sokolowski, 1980; Noirfalise, 1984: unit X.1.3.2; Nordiska ministerradet, 1984: units 3.4.3.1 [p.], 3.5.2.1 [p.], 2.2.4.6a, 3.3.3.2; Rodwell, 1991a: unit W4a; Påhlsson, 1994: unit 3.4.1.3 [p.], 2.2.1.7a.