Concept: Oroboreal [Carex bigelowii]-[Racomitrium] moss-heaths in the eunishabitats vocabulary

Concept URI http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/eunishabitats/E4.21
Preferred label Oroboreal [Carex bigelowii]-[Racomitrium] moss-heaths
Definition Carpets of mosses of genus [Racomitrium], often thick, closed and extensive, sometimes fragmented with much bare ground, associated with usually scattered vascular plants, among which [Carex bigelowii] is often prominent, characteristic of wind-exposed, cloud-bound, relatively snowfree summital regions of the Scandinavian mountains and of Scotland, northern England and northern Wales, of Iceland, the Faeroe Islands, Greenland, Spitzbergen. For the most part they constitute habitats physiognomically dominated by bryophytes, c.f. equivalents with lower ground cover in units H3.5 or H6.24.
Notation E4.21
Status Valid
Status Modified 2014-01-31
Accepted Date 2014-01-31
Not Accepted Date
Has broader
Has exact match