62.33 - Rock pavement, plateau and summital moss heaths

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

More or less level surfaces of rock of lowlands, hills and mountains of nondesert regions of the Palaearctic exposed or shattered by erosion or weathering processes, colonized by dense moss carpets.

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)

McVean, 1964e; Pearsall, 1971: 80-85; Gudjonsson and Gislason, 1998.