51.1136 - Bog myrtle hummocks

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Shrub hummocks dominated by Myrica gale, of local occurrence in nemoral Atlantic bogs, or by Myrica tomentosa in the southern boreal Pacific Far East.

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)

Duvigneaud, 1949: 111; Lebrun & al., 1949: unit 118b; Vanden Berghen, 1951a: 175-180; Balevicius, 1992: 174; Botch and Masing, 1983: 127; Ellenberg, 1988: 337; Opermanis & al., 1997: 56.