44.A1 - Sphagnum birch woods

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Forests of Betula pubescens or Betula carpatica on peaty, humid and very acid soils, colonizing bogs of reduced peat building activity and acid fens of the boreal, subboreal and nemoral zones of the western Palaearctic, very locally of the wooded steppe and steppe zones, with Molinia caerulea, Vaccinium uliginosum, Vaccinium myrtillus, Empetrum nigrum, Trientalis europaea and many sphagna, mosses and liverworts.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Betuletum pubescentis (Vaccinio uliginosi-Betuletum pubescentis), Sphagno palustris-Betuletum pubescentis, Dryopterido thelypteridi-Betuletum pubescentis, Vaccinio uliginosi-Pinetum sylvestris p., Betuletum carpaticae, i.a.

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)

Lebrun & al., 1949: unit 146; Ellenberg, 1963, 1988; Noirfalise & al., 1971; Westhoff and den Held, 1975: 255-256; Mériaux & al., 1978; Bournérias, 1979, 1984; Sanda & al., 1980: 116; Sokolowski, 1980; Moravec & al., 1983; Botch and Masing, 1983; Noirfalise, 1984: 207-212; Nordiska ministerradet, 1984; Matuszkiewicz, 1984; Walter and Breckle, 1986: 195; Oberdorfer, 1990; Korotkov & al., 1991; Rodwell, 1991a: unit W4; Pott, 1992: 359-362; Wallnöfer, 1993b: 306-307; Påhlsson, 1994; Schubert & al., 1995: 102-103; Ilijanic, 1996: 108; Müller, 1998: 60.