62.341 - Limestone pavement pools

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Pools, usually temporary, forming in karst pans, runnels, basins, pits of limestone pavements of lowlands, hills and mountains of nondesert regions of the Palaearctic. They may be colonized by highly specialized communities of units 22.25, 22.27 and 22.3. Remarkable, endemic-rich faunas occur, in particular, in temporary pools of Malta, of the Causses and of the Slovenian karst.

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)

Schembri, 1989; Lanfranco and Schembri, 1989: 130; Summerfield, 1991: 148-151; Lovric, 1993a; Lanfranco, 1999a, 1999b; Schembri, 1999b, 1999c.