Concept: Boreo-alpine acidocline snow-patch grassland and herb habitats in the eunishabitats vocabulary

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Concept URI	http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/eunishabitats/E4.11
Preferred label	Boreo-alpine acidocline snow-patch grassland and herb habitats
Definition	Snow patches of the Alps, the Pyrenees, the Carpathians (e.g. alliances [Salicion herbaceae] and [Festucion picturatae]), the Dinarides, the Rhodopides (Rila) and the Pelagonides, occupying areas free from snow for less than two months, with the herbs e.g. [Luzula alpinopilosa], [Salix herbacea], [Ligusticum mutellina]; mosses [Polytrichum sexangulare], [Polytrichum juniperinum], [Pohlia commutata], [Kiaeria falcata] ([Dicranum falcatum]), the liverwort [Anthelia juratzkana] or sometimes lichens. Also snow-patch communities of arctic and boreal mountains of Fennoscandia, the Scottish Highlands, Iceland, Greenland and other islands of the Norwegian and Greenland seas, formed of mats of mosses and lichens.
Notation	E4.11
Status	Valid
Status Modified	2014-01-31
Accepted Date	2014-01-31
Not Accepted Date
Editorial note	Physis habitat from which the description is taken includes this EUNIS habitat
Has broader	E4.1 (Vegetated snow-patch) in biodiversity/eunishabitats
Has narrower	E4.111 (Alpic acid moss snow-patch communities) in biodiversity/eunishabitats E4.112 (Alpic acid cudweed snow-patch communities) in biodiversity/eunishabitats E4.113 ([Luzula spadicea] snow patch communities) in biodiversity/eunishabitats E4.114 (Hercynian acid snow patch communities) in biodiversity/eunishabitats E4.115 (Boreal moss snowbed communities) in biodiversity/eunishabitats E4.116 (Boreo-alpine [Deschampsia]-[Anthoxanthum] communities) in biodiversity/eunishabitats E4.117 (Boreo-alpine herb-rich acid snowbed communities) in biodiversity/eunishabitats E4.118 (Boreo-alpine acidocline sedge and rush snowbed communities) in biodiversity/eunishabitats
Has exact match	http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/habitats/1020