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dune slacks, coastal dunes: CORINE 16.3: HUMID DUNE-SLACKS; humid depressions of the dunal
systems. The most important habitats are included in the following units. If the divisions proposed are
not sufficient, appropriate codes from 22.4,22.3, 54.2, 54.4, 53 can be used in conjunction with them.
Humid dune-slacks are extremely rich and specialized habitats very threatened by the lowering of
water tables.
dwarf Betula/Salix scrub, tundra: dwarf birch (Betula nana) and willow (Salix glauca, S.lanata)
scrub, with a ground vegetation of Arctostaphylos spp., Phyllodoce, Rubus chamaemorus and
Vaccinium spp., developed on mineral-poor soils.
dwarf-heath, tundra: stunted and creeping shrub formations (rarely more than 25cm. high). On sandy
soils ericaceous species (e.g. Arctostaphylos, Phyllodoce, Rhododendron, Vaccinium) often
predominate, together with dwarf Salix (S.glauca, S.lanata), cloud berry (Rubus chamaemorus) and
stone bramble (Rubus saxatile). On neutral, or alkaline soils Dryas heaths are charecteristic, with a
more diverse ground flora, including such species as Draba nivalis, Potentilla nivea, Campanula
uniflora and Arnica alpina.
edge, perm. pool, culture supplementary habitat: the land/water ecotone of small, permanently
flooded, standing-water bodies in cultures (including man-made ponds).
edge, perm. pool in open ground, open ground supplementary habitats: the land/water ecotone of
small, permanently flooded, standing-water bodies in open ground.
edge, perm. pool in wetland, wetland supplementary habitat: the land/water ecotone of small,
permanently flooded, standing-water bodies in wetlands.
edge, perm. pool under canopy, forest supplementary habitat: the land/water ecotone of small,
permanently flooded, standing-water bodies in forests, overshadowed by the tree canopy.
eutrophic/mesotrophic, humid, lowland unimproved grassland
CORINE 37.21: ATLANTIC AND SUB-ATLANTIC HUMID MEADOWS; Calthion palustris,
Bromion racemosi, Deschampsion cespitosae; lightly managed hay meadows and pastures on both
basocline and acidocline, nutrient-rich soils of middle European lowlands, hills and low mountains
under Atlantic or sub-Atlantic climatic conditions. Among the characteristic plant components of the
highly diverse communities forming this unit are Caltha palustris, Cirsium palustre, C. rivularis, C.
oleraceum, Epilobium parviflorum, Lychnis flos-cuculi, Mentha aquatica, Scirpus sylvaticus, Stachys
palustris, Bromus racemosus, Crepis paludosa, Fritillaria meleagris, Geum rivale, Polygonum
bistorta, Senecio aquaticus, Trollius europaeus, Lotus uliginosus, Trifolium dubium, Equisetum
palustre, Myosotis palustris, Deschampsia cespitosa, Angelica sylvestris, Oenanthe silaifolia, Gratiola
officinalis, Inula salicina, Succisella inflexa, Dactylorhiza majalis, Ranunculus acris, Rumer acetosa,
Holcus lanatus, Alopecurus pratensis, Festuca pratensis, Juncus effusus, J.fliformis.
CORINE 37.22: SHARP-FLOWERED RUSH MEADOWS; Juncion acutiflori ; Humid meadows
dominated by, or rich in, Juncus acutiflorus. They are floristically and phytosociologically very varied
and many are as related to the oligorophic Molinion communities of 37.3 as to the more eutrophic
Calthion ones of 37.2. Sharp-flowered rush meadows are particularly characteristic of the oceanic and
sub-oceanic regions to the western seaboard of Europe from north-western Iberia to the Low Countries.
CORINE 37.24: FLOOD SWARDS AND RELATED COMMUNITIES; Agropyro-Rumicion crispi p.;
grasslands of occasionally flooded river and lake banks, of depressions where rain water collects, of
disturbed humid areas and of pastures submitted to intensive grazing.
Fagus (gen.), deciduous forests: beech (Fagus) forests, with stands of overmature, mature and young
(saplings/scrub) trees. CORINE 41.1.
CORINE 41.1: BEECH FORESTS; forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica or, in Greece, F.orientalis or
F.moesica. Many montane formations are beech-fir or beech-fir-spruce forests, to be noted as 43
(mixed forests), but with the suffixes below; they are discussed with the corresponding deciduous
forests.
Fagus, scattered trees in open ground: see scattered trees in open ground (gen.).
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