31.234 - Northern Erica vagans heaths

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Heaths of well drained soils of the coasts and offshore islands of Ireland, Cornwall and Brittany, other than cushiony maritime formations, dominated by or rich in Erica vagans, constituting isolated northern outposts of occurrence of the species.

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)

Corillion, 1963: 15-16, 26; Noirfalise and Vanesse, 1976; Gimingham & al., 1979: 383; Webb, 1986: 56, 80, 84; Rodwell, 1991b: unit H6; Romao, 1996: 48.