51.116 - Raised bog species-poor cottonsedge communities

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Bogs or parts of bogs overwhelmingly dominated by Eriophorum vaginatum, with a strongly impoverished species cortŠge, in particular, with very few sphagna, characteristic of degraded and, in particular, grazed, bog systems of Atlantic regions, notably of the Pennines.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

"Eriophoretum vaginati britannicum" p.

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, 1949: 70, 112; Pearsall, 1971: 154; Rodwell, 1991b: unit M20 [p.]; Drachenfels, 1994: unit 6.3.3.