31.811 - Blackthorn-bramble scrub

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Mesophile, often luxuriant, shrub communities of Western Europe and western and northern Central Europe east to Poland, northern Moldavia, Slovakia and Austria, characteristic of Carpinion forest edges and substitution formations with, among others, Prunus spinosa, Carpinus betulus, Crataegus spp., Sambucus nigra, Rosa spp., Viburnum opulus, Rubus spp. Included are species-poor Prunus spinosa thickets, such as British Prunus spinosa-Rubus fruticosus scrub and corresponding mainland formations with Rubus fruticosus, Rubus elegantispinosus, Rubus bifrons, Rubus armeniacus.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Pruno-Rubion fruticosi p.: Pruno-Rubenion fruticosi ("Prunion spinosae")

Bibliographie

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)

Lebrun & al., 1949; Ellenberg, 1963, 1988; Guinochet and Vilmorin, 1973; Westhoff and den Held, 1975; Bournérias, 1979; Soo, 1980; Noirfalise & al., 1980; Vanden Berghen, 1982; Moravec & al., 1983; Matuszkiewicz, 1984; Rameau & al., 1989; Oberdorfer, 1990, 1992b; Rodwell, 1991a; Pott, 1992; Wirth, 1993; Schubert & al., 1995.