Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Preamble
- Salt-marsh communities
- COMMUNITY DESCRIPTIONS
- SM1: Zostera communities: Zosterion Christiansen 1934
- SM2: Ruppia maritima salt-marsh community: Ruppietum maritimae Hocquette 1927
- SM3: Eleocharis parvula salt-marsh community: Eleocharitetum parvulae (Preuss 1911/12) Gillner 1960
- SM4: Spartina maritima salt-marsh community: Spartinetum maritimae (Emb. & Regn. 1926) Corillion 1953
- SM5: Spartina alterniflora salt-marsh community: Spartinetum alterniflorae Corillion 1953
- SM6: Spartina anglica salt-marsh community: Spartinetum townsendii (Tansley 1939) Corillion 1953
- SM7: Arthrocnemum perenne stands
- SM8: Annual Salicornia salt-marsh community: Salicornietum europaeae Warming 1906
- SM9: Suaeda maritima salt-marsh community: Suaedetum maritimae (Conrad 1935) Pignatti 1953
- SM10: Transitional low-marsh vegetation with Puccinellia maritima, annual: Salicornia species and Suaeda maritima
- SM11: Aster tripolium var. discoideus salt-marsh community: Asteretum tripolii Tansley 1939
- SM12: Rayed Aster tripolium on salt-marshes
- SM13: Puccinellia maritima salt-marsh community: Puccinellietum maritimae (Warming 1906) Christiansen 1927
- SM14: Halimione portulacoides salt-marsh community: Halimionetum portulacoidis (Kuhnholtz-Lordat 1927) Des Abbayes & Corillion 1949
- SM15: Juncus maritimus-Triglochin maritima salt-marsh community
- SM16: Festuca rubra salt-marsh community: Juncetum gerardi Warming 1906
- SM17: Artemisia maritima salt-marsh community: Artemisietum maritimae Hocquette 1927
- SM18: Juncus maritimus salt-marsh community
- SM19: Blysmus rufus salt-marsh community: Blysmetum rufi (G. E. & G. Du Rietz 1925) Gillner 1960
- SM20: Eleocharis uniglumis salt-marsh community: Eleocharitetum uniglumis Nordhagen 1923
- SM21: Suaeda vera-Limonium binervosum salt-marsh community
- SM22: Halimione portulacoides-Frankenia laevis salt-marsh community: Limonio vulgaris-Frankenietum laevis Géhu & Géhu-Franck 1975
- SM23: Spergularia marina-Puccinellia distans salt-marsh community: Puccinellietum distantis Feekes (1934) 1945
- SM24: Elymus pycnanthus salt-marsh community: Atriplici-Elymetum pycnanthi Beeftink & Westhoff 1962
- SM25: Suaeda vera drift-line community: Elymo pycnanthi-Suaedetum verae (Arènes 1933) Géhu 1975
- SM26: Inula crithmoides on salt-marshes
- SM27: Ephemeral salt-marsh vegetation with Sagina maritima: Saginion maritimae Westhoff, van Leeuwen & Adriani 1962
- SM28: Elymus repens salt-marsh community: Elymetum repentis maritimum Nordhagen 1940
- Shingle, strandline and sand-dune communities
- COMMUNITY DESCRIPTIONS
- Maritime cliff communities
- COMMUNITY DESCRIPTIONS
- Vegetation of open habitats
- COMMUNITY DESCRIPTIONS
- INDEX OF SYNONYMS TO MARITIME COMMUNITIES AND VEGETATION OF OPEN HABITATS
- INDEX OF SPECIES IN MARITIME COMMUNITIES AND VEGETATION OF OPEN HABITATS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- PHYTOSOCIOLOGICAL CONSPECTUS OF BRITISH PLANT COMMUNITIES
SM24: Elymus pycnanthus salt-marsh community: Atriplici-Elymetum pycnanthi Beeftink & Westhoff 1962
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 September 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Preamble
- Salt-marsh communities
- COMMUNITY DESCRIPTIONS
- SM1: Zostera communities: Zosterion Christiansen 1934
- SM2: Ruppia maritima salt-marsh community: Ruppietum maritimae Hocquette 1927
- SM3: Eleocharis parvula salt-marsh community: Eleocharitetum parvulae (Preuss 1911/12) Gillner 1960
- SM4: Spartina maritima salt-marsh community: Spartinetum maritimae (Emb. & Regn. 1926) Corillion 1953
- SM5: Spartina alterniflora salt-marsh community: Spartinetum alterniflorae Corillion 1953
- SM6: Spartina anglica salt-marsh community: Spartinetum townsendii (Tansley 1939) Corillion 1953
- SM7: Arthrocnemum perenne stands
- SM8: Annual Salicornia salt-marsh community: Salicornietum europaeae Warming 1906
- SM9: Suaeda maritima salt-marsh community: Suaedetum maritimae (Conrad 1935) Pignatti 1953
- SM10: Transitional low-marsh vegetation with Puccinellia maritima, annual: Salicornia species and Suaeda maritima
- SM11: Aster tripolium var. discoideus salt-marsh community: Asteretum tripolii Tansley 1939
- SM12: Rayed Aster tripolium on salt-marshes
- SM13: Puccinellia maritima salt-marsh community: Puccinellietum maritimae (Warming 1906) Christiansen 1927
- SM14: Halimione portulacoides salt-marsh community: Halimionetum portulacoidis (Kuhnholtz-Lordat 1927) Des Abbayes & Corillion 1949
- SM15: Juncus maritimus-Triglochin maritima salt-marsh community
- SM16: Festuca rubra salt-marsh community: Juncetum gerardi Warming 1906
- SM17: Artemisia maritima salt-marsh community: Artemisietum maritimae Hocquette 1927
- SM18: Juncus maritimus salt-marsh community
- SM19: Blysmus rufus salt-marsh community: Blysmetum rufi (G. E. & G. Du Rietz 1925) Gillner 1960
- SM20: Eleocharis uniglumis salt-marsh community: Eleocharitetum uniglumis Nordhagen 1923
- SM21: Suaeda vera-Limonium binervosum salt-marsh community
- SM22: Halimione portulacoides-Frankenia laevis salt-marsh community: Limonio vulgaris-Frankenietum laevis Géhu & Géhu-Franck 1975
- SM23: Spergularia marina-Puccinellia distans salt-marsh community: Puccinellietum distantis Feekes (1934) 1945
- SM24: Elymus pycnanthus salt-marsh community: Atriplici-Elymetum pycnanthi Beeftink & Westhoff 1962
- SM25: Suaeda vera drift-line community: Elymo pycnanthi-Suaedetum verae (Arènes 1933) Géhu 1975
- SM26: Inula crithmoides on salt-marshes
- SM27: Ephemeral salt-marsh vegetation with Sagina maritima: Saginion maritimae Westhoff, van Leeuwen & Adriani 1962
- SM28: Elymus repens salt-marsh community: Elymetum repentis maritimum Nordhagen 1940
- Shingle, strandline and sand-dune communities
- COMMUNITY DESCRIPTIONS
- Maritime cliff communities
- COMMUNITY DESCRIPTIONS
- Vegetation of open habitats
- COMMUNITY DESCRIPTIONS
- INDEX OF SYNONYMS TO MARITIME COMMUNITIES AND VEGETATION OF OPEN HABITATS
- INDEX OF SPECIES IN MARITIME COMMUNITIES AND VEGETATION OF OPEN HABITATS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- PHYTOSOCIOLOGICAL CONSPECTUS OF BRITISH PLANT COMMUNITIES
Summary
Synonymy
Agropyretum pungentis Perraton 1953; includes Agropyron pungens-Juncus maritimus nodum Adam 1976.
Constant species
Elymus pycnanthus.
Physiognomy
The association is invariably dominated by the stiff clumps of Elymus pycnanthus and this may be the sole species. Usually, however, there are a few associates though these are somewhat varied and individual stands may be rendered distinctive by the abundance of (a) particular species. Sometimes there is a patchy or extensive understorey of Halimione portulacoides, Artemisia maritima and/or Puccinellia maritima. In other cases, Atriplex prostrata and/or Festuca rubra may be conspicuous. Juncus maritimus is sometimes abundant though stands with this species are not worthy of distinction as a subcommunity (cf. Adam 1976, 1977). Other stands have a prominent umbelliferous element with Conium maculatum, Foeniculum vulgare and Smyrnium olusatrum and, more locally, Petroselinum segetum and Sison amomum.
Habitat
The Atriplici-Elymetum is an upper-marsh community occurring on a variety of substrates including organicallyenriched clay, sand (where Festuca rubra is often abundant) and shingle. Substrates are generally well-drained and there is often considerable free calcium carbonate derived from inwashed shell fragments. The pH is generally above 7.0. The association also occurs on older, partly decayed drift litter, where Atriplex prostrata flourishes, but in many stands there is little litter except at the seaward edge.
The association may be confined to a narrow strip around the tidal limit or form extensive stands in the upper marsh; occasionally it forms mosaics with other communities.
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- British Plant Communities , pp. 102 - 103Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000