53.5 - Tall rush swamps

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Palaearctic formations of large Juncus spp. invading heavily grazed and trampled marshes or fens or (with Juncus effusus) eutrophized poor fens and bogs as in the vicinity of bird colonies. Similar formations developing within the environment of wet meadows have been listed under unit 37.241.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Agropyro-Rumicion crispi p.

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)

Westhoff and den Held, 1975; Oberdorfer, 1990; Pott, 1992: 235; Mossberg & al., 1995: 530.