41.B12 - Medio-European dry acidophilous birch woods

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Formations usually formed by Betula pendula, or, in the British Isles, Betula pubescens, with Deschampsia flexuosa, Agrostis capillaris (Agrostis tenuis), Festuca ovina, Vaccinium myrtillus, developed notably on sands, gravels, moraines and decalcified alluvions of nemoral northern and middle European plains and hills, as substitution facies of acidophilous oak woods (Fago-Quercetum, Blechno-Quercetum petraeae, Rusco-Quercetum, Luzulo-Quercetum), occasionally of oak-hornbeam woods (particularly mixed Atlantic bluebell oak forests, Endymio-Carpinetum), or colonization stages of dry heaths and decalcified dunes.

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)

Simms, 1971; Groppali & al., 1980; Condry, 1981; Nordiska ministerradet, 1984: unit 2.2.4.5 [p.]; Bournérias, 1984; Noirfalise, 1987; Ellenberg, 1988: 182; Rodwell, 1991a: units W10 [p.], W11 [p.], W16 [p.], W17 [p.]; Påhlsson, 1994: unit 2.2.1.5 [p.].