Swamps and tall-herb fens in the British National Vegetation Classification system

Swamps and tall-herb fens in the British National Vegetation Classification system

This article gives an overview of the swamp and tall-herb fen communities in the British National Vegetation Classification system.

Introduction

The swamp and tall-herb fen communities of the NVC were described in Volume 4 of "British Plant Communities", first published in 1995, along with the aquatic communities.

In total, 28 swamp and tall-herb fen communities have been identified.

The swamp and tall-herb fen communities consist of three separate subgroups:

* twenty-one swamp communities, characterised by being species-poor, each dominated by an often tall or bulky monocotyledon species, with little or nothing in the way of an understorey: S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, S6, S7, S8, S9, S10, S11, S12, S13, S14, S15, S16, S17, S18, S19, S20 and S29

* two communities termed "water-margin vegetation": S22 and S23

* five tall-herb fen communities, which have a more species-rich understorey than the swamps: S24, S25, S26, S27 and S28

List of swamp and tall-herb fen communities

The following is a list of the communities that make up this category:

* S1 "Carex elata" sedge-swamp "Caricetum elatae" Koch 1926

* S2 "Cladium mariscus" swamp and sedge-beds "Cladietum marisci" Zobrist 1933 "emend." Pfeiffer 1961

* S3 "Carex paniculata" swamp "Caricetum paniculatae" Wangerin 1916

* S4 "Phragmites australis" swamp and reed-beds "Phragmitetum australis" (Gams 1927) Schmale 1939

* S5 "Glyceria maxima" swamp "Glycerietum maximae" (Nowinski 1928) Hueck 1931 "emend." Krausch 1965

* S6 "Carex riparia" swamp "Caricetum ripariae" Soó 1928

* S7 "Carex acutiformis" swamp "Caricetum acutiformis" Sauer 1937

* S8 "Scirpus lacustris" ssp. "lacustris" swamp "Scirpetum lacustris" (Allorge 1922) Chouard 1924

* S9 "Carex rostrata" swamp "Caricetum rostratae" Rübel 1912

* S10 "Equisetum fluviatile" swamp "Equisetetum fluviatile" Steffen 1931 "emend." Wilczek 1935

* S11 "Carex vesicaria" swamp "Caricetum vesicariae" Br.-Bl. & Denis 1926

* S12 "Typha latifolia" swamp "Typhetum latifoliae" Soó 1927

* S13 "Typha angustifolia" swamp "Typhetum angustifoliae" Soó 1927

* S14 "Sparganium erectum" swamp "Sparganietum erecti" Roll 1938

* S15 "Acorus calamus" swamp "Acoretum calami" Schulz 1941

* S16 "Sagittaria sagittifolia" swamp

* S17 "Carex pseudocyperus" swamp

* S18 "Carex otrubae" swamp "Caricetum otrubae" Mirza 1978

* S19 "Eleocharis palustris" swamp "Eleocharitetum palustris" Schennikow 1919

* S20 "Scirpus lacustris" ssp. "tabernaemontani" swamp "Scirpetum tabernaemontani" Passarge 1964

* S21 "Scirpus maritimus" swamp "Scirpetum maritimi" (Br.-Bl. 1931) R.Tx. 1937

* S22 "Glyceria fluitans" water-margin vegetation "Glycerietum fluitantis" Wilczek 1935

* S23 Other water-margin vegetation Glycerio-Sparganion Br.-Bl. & Sissingh "apud" Boer 1942 "emend." Segal

* S24 "Phragmites australis - Peucedanum palustre" tall-herb fen "Peucedano-Phragmitetum australis" Wheeler 1978 "emend."

* S25 "Phragmites australis - Eupatorium cannabinum" tall-herb fen

* S26 "Phragmites australis - Urtica dioica" tall-herb fen

* S27 "Carex rostrata - Potentilla palustris" tall-herb fen "Potentillo-Caricetum rostratae" Wheeler 1980a

* S28 "Phalaris arundinacea" tall-herb fen "Phalaridetum arundinaceae" Libbert 1931


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