16.227 - Dune fine-grass therophyte communities

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Sparse pioneer formations of fine grasses rich in spring-blooming therophytes characteristic of oligotrophic, superficial soils in grey dune systems of the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. They are closely related to grasslands of units 35.2 and 35.3.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Thero-Airion p.; Nardo-Galion saxatile p.: Botrychio-Polygaletum i.a.; Tuberarion guttatae p.

Bibliography

Devillers P., Devillers-Terschuren J. & Vander Linden C., 2001. PHYSIS Palaearctic Habitat Classification Database. Updated to 10 December 2001. Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles, Bruxelles. (Source)

Géhu and Foucault, 1977; Rivas-Martinez, 1977a; LahondŠre, 1980; Géhu & al., 1984b; Géhu, 1985: 42; Géhu, 1986; Peinado Lorca and Rivas-Martinez, 1987; Påhlsson, 1994: unit 4.1.4.1 [p.]; Müller, 1998: Annex 5.