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Concept: Oroboreal [Carex bigelowii]-[Racomitrium] moss-heaths in the eunishabitats vocabulary
| Concept URI | http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/eunishabitats/E4.21 |
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| 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 |
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