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Concept: Ling-crowberry birch-spruce-pine taiga in the eunishabitats vocabulary
| Concept URI | http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/eunishabitats/G3.B11 |
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| Preferred label | Ling-crowberry birch-spruce-pine taiga |
| Definition | Sparse, extensive forests of the taiga belt of western Eurasia, west of the middle Petchora, dominated by [Pinus sylvestris] and [Picea abies], with many birches and an understorey dominated by [Calluna vulgaris], [Empetrum hermaphroditum], [Empetrum nigrum], [Vaccinium myrtillus] and, in the north, [Vaccinium uliginosum], with [Vaccinium vitis-idaea], lichens, notably of genus [Cladonia], mosses ([Dicranum]). They are, in particular, characteristic of cold, low evaporation regions of Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish mountains, up to the subalpine belt, occupying heavy raw humus on podsols. |
| Notation | G3.B11 |
| Status | Valid |
| Status Modified | 2014-01-31 |
| Accepted Date | 2014-01-31 |
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