51.112 - Bog cottonsedge-sphagnum lawns and green hummock bases

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Communities dominated by Eriophorum vaginatum and sphagna, in particular, green or yellow Sphagnum cuspidatum, Sphagnum recurvum (Sphagnum apiculatum, Sphagnum fallax), Sphagnum pulchrum, Sphagnum papillosum, Sphagnum balticum, Sphagnum tenellum, also Sphagnum magellanicum, Sphagnum rubellum, Sphagnum fuscum and others, constituting extensive carpets or lawns, or, sometimes with a lesser prominence of Eriophorum vaginatum, forming in the transition zone between hollows and hummocks of Palaearctic bogs; Drosera rotundifolia, Andromeda polifolia, Vaccinium oxycoccos are often common.

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)

Duvigneaud, 1949: 72-75; Valk, 1974: 155; Petermann and Seibert, 1979: 89, 95-97; Ruuhijärvi, 1983: 53, 55; Sjörs, 1983: 80, 81-82; Botch and Masing, 1983: 116-118; Moravec & al., 1983: 45; Nordiska ministerradet, 1984; Matuszkiewicz, 1984; Bellamy, 1986: 42-43; Ellenberg, 1988: 337, 339; Succow and Jeschke, 1990; Daniels and Eddy, 1990: 26-28; Korotkov & al., 1991; Rodwell, 1991b: unit M18 [p.], 183-186; Oberdorfer, 1992a: 285-286; Steiner, 1993: 166-177; Påhlsson, 1994: unit 3.1.3; Drachenfels, 1994: unit 6.1 [p.].