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Concept: Petrifying springs with tufa or travertine formations in the eunishabitats vocabulary

Concept URI http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/eunishabitats/C2.121
Preferred label Petrifying springs with tufa or travertine formations
Definition Communities of calcareous, petrifying springs of the Alps, the pre-Alpine regions and of the middle European Hercynian ranges and their periphery, forming and colonizing large tufa deposits. When active, tufa springs comprise a hydrosere in which the [Cratoneurion] plants, and in particular, [Cratoneuron] spp., are accompanied by fen species such as [Carex lepidocarpa] and [Sesleria caerulea]; the latter may physiognomically dominate both the hydrosere and the adjacent xerosere, developed on fossil tufa deposits, in which it is accompanied by [Brometalia] plants.
Notation C2.121
Status Valid
Status Modified 2014-01-31
Accepted Date 2014-01-31
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