44.9111 - Atlantic greater tussock-sedge alder woods

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Eutrophic and mesotrophic alder woods of Atlantic Europe, distributed in the British Isles, western France, locally, northwestern Germany, poor in Carex elongata, and harbouring, in particular, Oenanthe crocata, Osmunda regalis, Carex laevigata, Scutellaria minor. They include all meso-eutrophic alder swamp woods of the British Isles and western France, as well as the less eutrophic woods of the zone of transition between the main range of this unit and the more continental range of unit 44.9112.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Osmundo-Alnetum glutinosae, Carici laevigatae-Alnetum, i.a.

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)

Ellenberg, 1988: 277-278; Rodwell, 1991a: unit W5; Pott, 1992: 345.