The Drabo corymbosae-Papaveretea dahliani − a new vegetation class of the High Arctic polar desert

• Main Authors: Daniëls, Fred J.A., Elvebakk, Arve, Matveyeva, Nadezhda V., Mucina, Ladislav
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: ZRC SAZU, Založba ZRC 2016
• Subjects: Arctic subzone A; Arctic cushion forb subzone; biogeography; High-Arctic polar desert; Papaverion dahliani; patterned ground; syntaxonomy; zonal vegetation; Arctic; Svalbard; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Greenland; Franz Josef Land; Severnaya Zemlya; Chelyuskin; Arctic Archipelago; polar desert
• Online Access: https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/hacquetia/article/view/4262/3967; https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/hacquetia/article/view/4262

A new class and a new order (Drabo corymbosae-Papaveretea dahliani and Saxifrago oppositifoliae-Papaveretalia dahliani) have been described, and the Papaverion dahliani validated. This is vegetation of zonal habitats in lowlands of the High Arctic subzone A (or Arctic herb, cushion forb or polar des...