This habitat type includes areas with good water supply and nutrient-rich soft soil humus in the valleys, depressions, foothills, and the edges of bogs with near-surface mobile groundwater. The tree layer is dominated by spruce, but broad-leaved species (ash, linden, elm, maple) may also be present, the share of which is quite large in some places. The species-rich grass layer is formed primarily by tall plants.
Such spruce forests are found in small areas in North-Eastern, Central, Eastern, and South-Western Estonia.
Includes the following habitat type groups according to Paal: 116 (fresh boreo-nemoral forests) and 131 (rich paludified forests).
Habitat group
Forest
Habitat status
Natura 2000 habitat