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Concept: Northern Fennoscandian palsa mounds in the eunishabitats vocabulary

Concept URI http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/eunishabitats/D3.111
Preferred label Northern Fennoscandian palsa mounds
Definition Palsa domes, ridges and plateaux of Fennoscandia, restricted to the low alpine, subalpine and sometimes upper conifer forest levels of the northern, arctoalpine, Fennoscandian mountains of Troms, Finnmark, Swedish and Finnish Lapland, with outposts on the Dovre plateau in the boreoalpine mountains of Norway, occupied by dwarf shrub communities composed mainly of [Betula nana], [Empetrum hermaphroditum], [Ledum palustre], [Rubus chamaemorus], [Vaccinium myrtillus], [Vaccinium vitis-idaea], with [Vaccinium microcarpum], the mosses [Dicranum elongatum], [Polytrichum alpestre], [Pleurozium schreberi] and lichens, in particular of genus [Cladonia].
Notation D3.111
Status Valid
Status Modified 2014-01-31
Accepted Date 2014-01-31
Not Accepted Date
Has broader
Has exact match