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Concept: Icelandic black sedge-brown moss fens in the eunishabitats vocabulary
| Concept URI | http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/eunishabitats/D4.163 |
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| Preferred label | Icelandic black sedge-brown moss fens |
| Definition | [Carex nigra]-dominated fen communities of the lowlands of Iceland with a variable species cortège that may include [Carex rariflora], [Carex lyngbyei], [Carex canescens], [Eriophorum angustifolium], [Scirpus cespitosus ssp. cespitosus] ([Trichophorum cespitosum]), [Juncus filiformis], [Calamagrostis stricta], [Potentilla palustris], [Menyanthes trifoliata], [Polygonum viviparum], [Pinguicula vulgaris], [Salix callicarpaea] ([Salix arctica]), [Equisetum palustre], [Selaginella selaginoides] and bryophytes [Drepanocladus revolvens], [Calliergonella cuspidata], [Polytrichum commune], [Aulacomnium palustre], [Calliergon sarmentosum], [Calliergon stramineum], [Calliergon giganteum], [Cinclidium stygium], [Cinclidium subrotundum], [Climacium dendroides], [Hypnum] spp., [Oncophorus wahlenbergii], [Sphagnum girgensohnii]. Hummocks with heath mosses and sphagna are common; these communities are modified by grazing, resulting, notably, in a reduced willow component. |
| Notation | D4.163 |
| Status | Valid |
| Status Modified | 2014-01-31 |
| Accepted Date | 2014-01-31 |
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