31.4 - Landes alpines et boréales

Alpine and boreal heaths

Typologie des habitats de Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon

Descriptif anglais

Small, dwarf or prostrate shrub formations of the alpine and subalpine zones of the mountains of Eurasia, dominated by ericaceous species, Dryas octopetala, dwarf junipers, brooms or greenweeds; Dryas heaths of the British Isles.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Loiseleurio-Vaccinietea (Caricetea curvulae p.): Loiseleurio-Vaccinietalia) (Empetretalia hermaphroditae, Rhododendro-Vaccinietalia) p.: Loiseleurio-Arctostaphylion p., Loiseleurio-Vaccinion, Rhododendro-Vaccinion, Juniperion nanae, Junipero-Bruckenthalion; Pino-Juniperetea: Pino-Juniperetalia: Pino-Juniperion sabinae p., Pino-Cytision purgantis p.; Seslerietea albicantis: Rhododendro hirsuti-Ericetalia carneae: Ericion carneae; Seslerietea albicantis: Seslerietalia coeruleae: Caricion firmae p.; Seslerietea albicantis: Kobresio-Dryadetalia: Dryadion octopetalae

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)

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