5 - Bogs and marshes

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Mire communities, for the most part turfogenic, of sedges, grasses, rushes, bryophytes and their associated species; tall helophyte fringes of water bodies. Complex systems of raised bogs, blanket bogs, rich fens, acidic fens, transition mires, boreal marsh-fens, aapa, palsa and polygon mires characterized by the presence of these communities, but also including formations otherwise typical of sections 22, 31, 37, 44. Spring systems.

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)