British Plant Communities, Volume 1British Plant Communities is the first systematic and comprehensive account of the vegetation types of Britain. It covers all natural, semi-natural and major artificial habitats in Great Britain (but not Northern Ireland), representing the fruits of fifteen years of research by leading plant ecologists. The series breaks new ground in wedding the rigorous interest in the classification of plant communities that has characterized Continental phytosociology with the deep concern traditional in Great Britain to understand how vegetation works. The published volumes have been greeted with universal acclaim, and the series has become firmly established as a framework for a wide variety of teaching, research and management activities in ecology, conservation and land-use planning. |
Contents
The scope and methods of data collection | 4 |
INTRODUCTION TO WOODLANDS AND SCRUB | 17 |
Beech and yew woodlands | 28 |
Scrub and underscrub communities | 34 |
W1 Salix cinereaGalium palustre woodland | 48 |
W7 Alnus glutinosaFraxinus excelsiorLysimachia nemorum woodland | 102 |
W9 Fraxinus excelsiorSorbus aucupariaMercurialis perennis woodland | 158 |
W10 Quercus roburPteridium aquilinumRubus fruticosus woodland | 172 |
W13 Taxus baccata woodland | 234 |
W15 Fagus sylvaticaDeschampsia flexuosa woodland | 251 |
W17 Quercus petraeaBetula pubescensDicranum majus woodland | 278 |
W18 Pinus sylvestrisHylocomium splendens woodland | 300 |
W19 Juniperus communis ssp communisOxalis acetosella woodland | 316 |
W21 Crataegus monogynaHedera helix scrub | 333 |
W22 Prunus spinosaRubus fruticosus scrub | 347 |
W25 Pteridium aquilinumRubus fruticosus underscrub | 364 |
W11 Quercus petraeaBetula pubescensOxalis acetosella woodland | 197 |
W12 Fagus sylvaticaMercurialis perennis woodland | 217 |
W4 Betula pubescensMolinia caerulea woodland | 224 |
W5 Alnus glutinosaCarex paniculata woodland | 369 |
INDEX OF SPECIES IN WOODLANDS AND SCRUB | 377 |
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Common terms and phrases
abundant Acer pseudoplatanus acetosella Agrostis Alnus Anemone areas associated aucuparia beech Betula pubescens birch Birks Birse Brachythecium rutabulum bryophytes calcareous calcicolous calcifugous Calluna canopy Carex characteristic cinerea colonisation coppice Corylus cover Crataegus monogyna dense Deschampsia cespitosa dominant drier Dryopteris Dryopteris dilatata edaphic Eurhynchium praelongum europaeus Fagus Fagus-Rubus woodland field layer flexuosa forest Fraxinus-Acer-Mercurialis woodland frequent grassland grazing ground herbaceous herbs Hyacinthoides Ilex kind of woodland Klötzli less Luzula McVean & Ratcliffe Mercurialis mires Mnium hornum north-west occasional occur Oxalis palustre patchy pendula Peterken petraea Phragmites Pigott plants preferential prominent Prunus Pteridium Quercus robur Quercus-Pteridium-Rubus woodland Rackham Ratcliffe 1962 Rhytidiadelphus Rubus fruticosus agg Salix Salix cinerea sapling scrub seedling shade shrubs slopes sometimes Sorbus sparse Sphagnum stand type sub-community sylvatica sylvestris Tansley Taxus Thuidium tamariscinum Tilia Tilia cordata trees typically underscrub understorey undulatum Urtica dioica usually Vaccinium vegetation Viola vulgaris Watt wetter wood woodland zonations