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Concept: Icelandic palsa mounds in the eunishabitats vocabulary
| Concept URI | http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/eunishabitats/D3.112 |
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| Preferred label | Icelandic palsa mounds |
| Definition | Palsa mounds of the periglacial arctoalpine highlands of central Iceland, 0.5-2.5 metres high, 2-10 metres long, 1-7 metres broad, surrounded by a narrow lake-like lagg or a minerotrophic mud-bottom mire, generally of the Icelandic [Carex rostrata]-[Carex rariflora] type (unit 54.6242), occupied, on the tops, by shrub communities dominated by [Empetrum hermaphroditum], with [Dryas octopetala], [Salix herbacea], [Armeria maritima], [Silene acaulis], [Kobresia myosuroides], the mosses [Drepanocladus uncinatus], [Racomitrium canescens], the sphagnum [Sphagnum teres] and the lichen [Cetraria islandica], and on the lower slopes by communities dominated by [Salix glauca ssp. callicarpaea] ([Salix arctica]), [Salix herbacea] and [Calamagrostis neglecta]. |
| Notation | D3.112 |
| Status | Valid |
| Status Modified | 2014-01-31 |
| Accepted Date | 2014-01-31 |
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