22.5 - Turlough and lake-bottom meadows

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Terrestrial communities colonizing the bottom of waterbodies that are completely and recurrently emptied of water for part of the time, such as Irish turloughs. The characteristics of each stage of the cycle can be defined by use of codes of units 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 22.4, and, if appropriate, those of units 37, 38, 53, 54, or 8.

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)

Stewart and Church, 1992: 36.