54.2E - Deergrass alkaline fens

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Scirpus cespitosus-dominated communities of alkaline fens, mainly characteristic of oceanic to subcontinental parts of the boreal region and of the alpine and subalpine levels of the Alps and the Pyrenees, at altitudes superior to those of the Caricetum davallianae communities of unit 54.23, including their deergrass-rich facies (unit 54.232).

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Amblystegio intermedii-Scirpetum austriaci (Drepanoclado revolventis-Trichophoretum cespitosi, Trichophoro cespitosi alpinum)

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)

Duvigneaud, 1949: 100; Dierssen, 1978: 419; Vanden Berghen and Peeters, 1982: 183-186; Nordiska ministerradet, 1984: unit 3.6.1.4g; Oberdorfer, 1992a: 235-239, 242; Steiner, 1993: 153-154; Påhlsson, 1994: unit 3.3.2.3b.