NVC community W10 is one of the woodland

Woodland and scrub communities in the British National Vegetation Classification system

This article gives an overview of the woodland and scrub communities in the British National Vegetation Classification system.-Introduction:The woodland and scrub communities of the NVC were described in Volume 1 of British Plant Communities, first published in 1991.In total, 25 woodland/scrub...

 communities in the British National Vegetation Classification

British National Vegetation Classification

The British National Vegetation Classification or NVC is a system of classifying natural habitat types in Great Britain according to the vegetation they contain....

 system. It is one of the six communities falling in the "mixed deciduous and oak/birch woodlands" group.

This is a widely distributed community, except in Scotland. There are five subcommunities.

Community composition

Four constant species are found in this community:

• English Oak (Quercus robur)
• Honeysuckle
  Honeysuckle
  Honeysuckles are arching shrubs or twining vines in the family Caprifoliaceae, native to the Northern Hemisphere. There are about 180 species of honeysuckle, 100 of which occur in China; Europe, India and North America have only about 20 native species each...
  
   (Lonicera periclymenum)
• Bracken
  Bracken
  Bracken are several species of large, coarse ferns of the genus Pteridium. Ferns are vascular plants that have alternating generations, large plants that produce spores and small plants that produce sex cells . Brackens are in the family Dennstaedtiaceae, which are noted for their large, highly...
  
   (Pteridium aquilinum)
• Bramble
  Bramble
  Brambles are thorny plants of the genus Rubus, in the rose family . Bramble fruit is the fruit of any such plant, including the blackberry and raspberry. The word comes from Germanic *bram-bezi, whence also German Brombeere , Dutch Braam and French framboise...
  
   (Rubus fruticosus agg.)

No rare species are also associated with the community.

Distribution

This community is widespread throughout lowland areas of England and Wales. It extends into lowland southern and eastern areas of Scotland, but in the west, it is replaced by community W11

British NVC community W11

NVC community W11 is one of the woodland communities in the British National Vegetation Classification system. It is one of the six communities falling in the "mixed deciduous and oak/birch woodlands" group.This is a widespread upland community of northern and western Britain...

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Subcommunities

There are five subcommunities:

• the so-called typical subcommunity
• the Anemone nemorosa subcommunity
• the Hedera helix subcommunity
• the Holcus lanatus subcommunity
• the Acer pseudoplatanus - Oxalis acetosella subcommunity