Magellanic moorland

Edmundo Pisano identifies the following plant communities for the Magellanic moorland: • Bogs • Sphagnum bogs • Non-sphagniferous bryophytic tundra • Non-sphagnum moss bog • Hepatica bogs • Hygrophytic mire tundra • Bryophyte and dwarf shrub tundra • Gramineous mires • Tufty sedge tundra • Subantarctic gramineous mire • Tundras with Pilgerodendron uvifera • Association Pilgerodendretum uviferae • Sub-association Nano-Pilgerodendretum uviferae • Interior nanophanerophytic tundras • Interior heath of low to medium elevation Where forests occur they are made up of the following trees Nothofagus betuloides (coigüe de Magallanes), Drimys winteri (canelo), Pseudopanax laetevirens (sauco del diablo), Embothrium coccineum (notro), Maytenus magellanica (maitén), Pilgerodendron uviferum (ciprés de las Guaitecas) and Tepualia stipularis (tepú). ==Soils and climate==

Soils are usually rich in turf and organic matter and poor in bases. Often they are also water-saturated. Granitoids, schists and ancient volcanic rocks make up the basement on which soils develop. Any previously existing regolith has been eroded by the Quaternary glaciations. The climate where Magellanic moorland grows can be defined as oceanic, snowy and isothermal In the Köppen climate classification it has a tundra climate ET. ==References==