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Concept: Palsa mounds in the eunishabitats vocabulary

Concept URI http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/eunishabitats/D3.11
Preferred label Palsa mounds
Definition Raised features of the palsa mires of the Palaearctic domaine constructed of peat around a permafrost core of ice and peat, colonized by ombrotrophic communities of dwarf shrubs, mosses, sphagna and lichens. They may take the shape of relatively low and flat ridges, 0.50 to 1.5 or 2.0 metres high, or higher domes, up to 8 metres in height. The first may be more characteristic of the continuous permafrost zone, the second of discontinuous permafrost zone where permafrost disappears under the mostly minerotrophic intervening hollows.
Notation D3.11
Status Valid
Status Modified 2014-01-31
Accepted Date 2014-01-31
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