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Concept: Tall fern western spruce taiga in the eunishabitats vocabulary

Concept URI http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/eunishabitats/G3.A22
Preferred label Tall fern western spruce taiga
Definition Forests of [Picea abies] or, in the east, [Picea obovata], sometimes accompanied by [Pinus sylvestris] and/or [Populus tremula], of southern boreal and boreonemoral regions of Fennoscandia, Russia west of the western Ural piedmont, Belarus, the Baltic States, with an understorey dominated by ferns, in particular, [Athyrium filix-femina], [Dryopteris carthusiana], [Dryopteris expansa], [Dryopteris dilatata], [Phegopteris connectilis], [Gymnocarpium dryopteris], [Matteuccia struthiopteris], often with two tiers, one of taller ferns, one of medium-sized ferns, with a greater presence of herbs than of [Vaccinium myrtillus] and much [Oxalis acetosella], developing on mesic to moist moraines (podsol-acid brown forest earth). Accompanying species include [Betula pubescens], [Maianthemum bifolium], [Trientalis europaea], [Geranium sylvaticum], [Rubus saxatilis], [Stellaria nemorum], [Viola epipsila], [Paris quadrifolia], [Luzula pilosa], [Melica nutans], [Milium effusum], [Deschampsia flexuosa] [Equisetum sylvaticum], and mosses. They occupy stations with a richer nutrient supply than those of the bilberry forests of unit 42.C1 and of the small fern forests of unit 42.C21, with a lower nutrient supply than the small herb forests of unit 42.C3 and the tall herb forests of unit 42.C4, and with a higher humidity level than all except the latter. In the boreo-nemoral zone, deciduous trees, in particular, [Tilia cordata], [Acer platanoides], [Ulmus laevis], may form a second tree layer.
Notation G3.A22
Status Valid
Status Modified 2014-01-31
Accepted Date 2014-01-31
Not Accepted Date
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