44.A3 - Mountain pine bog woods

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Woods or scrubs formed by erect or prostrate members of the Pinus mugo complex, namely the tall, single-stemmed Pinus uncinata, the multi-stemmed, up to 8m tall, Pinus rotundata, and the multi-stemmed, up to 2m tall, Pinus mugo, developing on drier buttes and ridges of raised bogs, acid fens and transition moors of the Alps, the pre-Alpine plateaux and valleys, the Jura, the higher Hercynian ranges and associated hills and depressions, with Eriophorum vaginatum, Vaccinium oxycoccos, Vaccinium uliginosum, Vaccinium myrtillus, Sphagnum spp. and sometimes Betula nana.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Vaccinio uliginosi-Pinetum rotundatae (Sphagno-Mugetum, Pino rotundatae-Sphagnetum, Pinetum uncinatae, Vaccinio uliginosi-Pinetum mugo), Chamaemoro-Pinetum mugi

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)

Ellenberg, 1963, 1988: 337, 340; Oberdorfer, 1967, 1990; Ozenda, 1975; Delvosalle, 1977; Petermann and Seibert, 1979; Moravec & al., 1983: 45, 46; Matuszkiewicz, 1984: 93, 186-187; Pott, 1992: 354-355; Steiner, 1993: 175-176; Schubert & al., 1995: 103-104; Favarger and Robert, 1995b: 64; Rybnicek, 1998: 237-243, 302-304.