32.212 - Thermo-Mediterranean heath-garrigues

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Formations dominated by the thermophile, often calciphile, heathers Erica multiflora and Erica manipuliflora, best developed in the thermo-Mediterranean zones of southern and eastern Spain, the Balearics, Sardinia, Sicily, Pantelleria, southern Italy, southern Greece and the Aegean, Mediterranean Anatolia, Cyprus and coastal Mediterranean North Africa. Western meso-mediterranean formations are listed under unit 32.4B, eastern meso-Mediterranean formations under unit 32.5C.

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)

Knapp, 1973: 484; Jahn and Schönfelder, 1995: 19.