44.A - Birch and conifer mire woods

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Woods of Betula pubescens, Pinus spp. or Picea spp. colonizing bogs and fens; they are characteristic of the boreal and subboreal zones, extending, mostly as boreal relicts, into the nemoral, wooded steppe and steppe zones.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Vaccinio-Piceetea: Piceo-Vaccinienion uliginosi (Betulion pubescentis, Ledo-Pinion) i.a.

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)

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