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Southern wet heaths

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English name	Southern wet heaths

English name

Southern wet heaths

EUNIS habitat type code	F4.12	Level	4
Edition	EUNIS Habitat Classification 2012 - a revision of the habitat classification descriptions.

Description ( English )

Humid and meso-hygrophile heaths of gley-podsols and semi-peaty soils of the northwestern Iberian peninsula, Atlantic France, the Paris Basin and its periphery, extreme southern England, dominated by [Erica tetralix] or [Erica ciliaris], with [Erica scoparia], [Erica ciliaris], [Calluna vulgaris], [Ulex minor], [Ulex gallii] or [Genista anglica]. They may, in particular, form transition belts between peaty heaths of unit F4.11 and dry heaths of unit F4.2.

Source

ILE SAS (2001)

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Relationships with other classifications

Classification	Code	Title	Relation type
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200410	F4.12	Southern wet heaths	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308	F4.12	Southern wet heaths	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202	F4.12	Southern wet heaths	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199910	F4.12	Southern wet heaths	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199811	F4.12	Southern wet heaths	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199712	F4.12	Southern wet heaths	same
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 200112	31.12	Southern wet heaths	source
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 199905	31.12	Southern wet heaths	same
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1997	31.12	Southern wet heaths	same
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1996	31.12		same
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1993	31.12		same
CORINE Biotopes Classification 1991	31.12		same
CORINE Biotopes Classification 1989	31.12		same
CORINE Land Cover	3.2.2.	Moors and heathland	n/a
National Vegetation Classification (UK)	H8	[Calluna vulgaris]-[Ulex gallii] heath	overlap
National Vegetation Classification (UK)	H4	[Ulex gallii]-[Agrostis curtisii] heath	overlap
	F	Heathland, scrub and tundra	Ancestor
	F4	Temperate shrub heathland	Ancestor
	F4.1	Wet heaths	Parent

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