Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Preamble
- Salt-marsh communities
- COMMUNITY DESCRIPTIONS
- Shingle, strandline and sand-dune communities
- COMMUNITY DESCRIPTIONS
- SD1: Rumex crispus-Glaucium flavum shingle community
- SD2: Honkenya peploides-Cakile maritima strandline community
- SD3: Matricaria maritima-Galium aparine strandline community
- SD4: Elymus farctus ssp. boreali-atlanticus foredune community
- SD5: Leymus arenarius mobile dune community
- SD6: Ammophila arenaria mobile dune community
- SD7: Ammophila arenaria-Festuca rubra semi-fixed dune community
- SD8: Festuca rubra-Galium verum fixed dune grassland
- SD9: Ammophila arenaria-Arrhenatherum elatius dune grassland
- SD10: Carex arenaria dune community
- SD11: Carex arenaria-Cornicularia aculeata dune community
- SD12: Carex arenaria-Festuca ovina-Agrostis capillaris dune grassland
- SD13: Sagina nodosa-Bryum pseudotriquetrum dune-slack community
- SD14: Salix repens-Campylium stellatum dune-slack community
- SD15: Salix repens-Calliergon cuspidatum dune-slack community
- SD16: Salix repens-Holcus lanatus dune-slack community
- SD17: Potentilla anserina-Carex nigra dune-slack community
- SD18: Hippophae rhamnoides dune scrub
- SD19: Phleum arenarium-Arenaria serpyllifolia dune annual community: Tortulo-Phleetum arenariae (Massart 1908) Br.-Bl. & de Leeuw 1936
- 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
SD9: Ammophila arenaria-Arrhenatherum elatius dune grassland
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 September 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Preamble
- Salt-marsh communities
- COMMUNITY DESCRIPTIONS
- Shingle, strandline and sand-dune communities
- COMMUNITY DESCRIPTIONS
- SD1: Rumex crispus-Glaucium flavum shingle community
- SD2: Honkenya peploides-Cakile maritima strandline community
- SD3: Matricaria maritima-Galium aparine strandline community
- SD4: Elymus farctus ssp. boreali-atlanticus foredune community
- SD5: Leymus arenarius mobile dune community
- SD6: Ammophila arenaria mobile dune community
- SD7: Ammophila arenaria-Festuca rubra semi-fixed dune community
- SD8: Festuca rubra-Galium verum fixed dune grassland
- SD9: Ammophila arenaria-Arrhenatherum elatius dune grassland
- SD10: Carex arenaria dune community
- SD11: Carex arenaria-Cornicularia aculeata dune community
- SD12: Carex arenaria-Festuca ovina-Agrostis capillaris dune grassland
- SD13: Sagina nodosa-Bryum pseudotriquetrum dune-slack community
- SD14: Salix repens-Campylium stellatum dune-slack community
- SD15: Salix repens-Calliergon cuspidatum dune-slack community
- SD16: Salix repens-Holcus lanatus dune-slack community
- SD17: Potentilla anserina-Carex nigra dune-slack community
- SD18: Hippophae rhamnoides dune scrub
- SD19: Phleum arenarium-Arenaria serpyllifolia dune annual community: Tortulo-Phleetum arenariae (Massart 1908) Br.-Bl. & de Leeuw 1936
- 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
Dune grassland Gimingham 1964a.
Constant species
Achillea millefolium, Ammophila arenaria, Arrhenatherum elatius, Festuca rubra, Poa pratensis.
Rare species
Acaena novae-zelandiae, Astragalus danicus.
Physiognomy
The Ammophila arenaria-Arrhenatherum elatius grassland includes rank, tussocky swards in which both Festuca rubra and Ammophila remain very common, the former especially being often abundant, indeed the most frequent dominant overall, the latter rather more patchily represented, but plentiful and vigorous in some stands. Compared with other dune grasslands, however, a noticeable difference here is the common occurrence of Arrhenatherum elatius, often growing in some abundance and quite frequently co-dominant. Other grasses figure, too, though their contribution to the cover is generally small. Poa pratensis agg. (probably P. subcaerulea in many cases) is constant in small amounts, for example, and Dactylis glomerata is often found, though only exceptionally with any abundance. More occasionally, there can be some Holcus lanatus, Trisetum flavescens, Elymus pycnanthus, E. farctus and E. repens, but smaller species like Koeleria macrantha, Agrostis capillaris and Anthoxanthum odoratum tend to be very scarce. Carex arenaria is only moderately common, and Luzula campestris rather infrequent.
Quite a variety of dicotyledonous herbs occur in the community, the commonest able to grow up tall through the grasses or form a loose, bushy understorey in more open parts of the sward.
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- British Plant Communities , pp. 188 - 193Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000