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Concept: Boreal black sedge-brown moss fens in the eunishabitats vocabulary

Concept URI http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/eunishabitats/D4.162
Preferred label Boreal black sedge-brown moss fens
Definition [Carex nigra]-dominated fen communities of the subalpine to lower alpine zones of the boreoalpine and arctoalpine mountains of Fennoscandia occupying low-lying areas affected by running water (pH 5.5-6.0), among low (0.20 m) willow brush of, notably, [Salix hastata], [Salix lanata], [Salix lapponum], [Salix phylicifolia], comprising poor fen margin vegetation with, in some parts, an admixture of medium rich fen elements, and with a ground layer mainly of brown mosses. The sedge-rich species cortège includes [Carex bigelowii], [Carex canescens], [Carex chordorrhiza], [Carex dioica], [Carex flava], [Carex limosa], [Carex magellanica], [Carex panicea], [Carex rostrata], [Carex rotundata], [Eriophorum angustifolium], [Scirpus cespitosus ssp. cespitosus] ([Trichophorum cespitosum]), [Phleum alpinum], [Poa pratensis] s.l., [Caltha palustris], [Cardamine pratensis], [Pedicularis palustris], [Pinguicula vulgaris], [Polygonum viviparum], [Potentilla erecta], [Potentilla palustris], [Viola palustris], [Salaginella salaginoides], [Thalictrum alpinum], and bryophytes [Aulacomnium palustre], [Calliergon sarmentosum], [Calliergon stramineum], [Cinclidium stygium], [Drepanocladus exannulatus], [Paludella squarrosa], [Philonotis fontana], [Sphagnum warnstorfii].
Notation D4.162
Status Valid
Status Modified 2014-01-31
Accepted Date 2014-01-31
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