53.2151 - Tufted sedge tussocks

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Formations of large, often crowded tussocks of Carex elata, of alkaline or eutrophic, peaty or organic soils of the Palaearctic domaine. Carex elata is, in particular, one of the constituents of species-rich sedge communities in alkaline fens. It is also typical of the flood plain of large, slow-flowing rivers.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Caricetum elatae

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)

Lebrun & al., 1949: unit 77; Ellenberg, 1963, 1988; Horvat & al., 1974: 154, 184, 222, 273, 494; Bournérias, 1979, 1984; Dethioux, 1982; Moravec & al., 1983: 32; Botch and Masing, 1983; Matuszkiewicz, 1984: 79; Nordiska ministerradet, 1984: unit 6.1.2.5; Costa, 1987: 294; Balatova-Tulackova and Venanzoni, 1989; Korotkov & al., 1991: 31; Balatova-Tulackova & al., 1993: 93-94; Påhlsson, 1994: unit 6.1.2.4; Mossberg & al., 1995: 640; Ilijanic, 1996: 108; Hoda & al., 1998: 7; Seliskar, 1998: 14.