54.5321 - Basicline sphagnum-bottle sedge quaking mires

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Transition mire communities of boreal and western nemoral regions of the Palaearctic domaine dominated by Carex rostrata accompanied by basiphilous sphagna, Sphagnum contortum, Sphagnum teres, Sphagnum warnstorfii, Sphagnum squarrosum. They are most characteristic of boreal regions, restricted at lower latitudes to the montane to subalpine belts.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Menyantho-Sphagnetum teretis

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)

Dierssen, 1978: 418; Ratcliffe, 1980: unit H3e; Rodwell, 1991b: unit M8; Korotkov & al., 1991: 259; Steiner, 1993: 145-146.