31.881 - Juniper downs

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Juniperus communis thickets developed on calcareous substrates of middle Europe, in particular, of southern England, southern Germany, southern Belgium, the periphery of the Paris Basin, the Danish, Swedish and eastern Baltic islands, the Estonian mainland, often as colonization facies of medio-European calcareous grasslands of unit 34.

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)

Westhoff and den Held, 1975: 246; Bournérias, 1984: 298, 309, 391; Ellenberg, 1988; Oberdorfer, 1990; Rodwell, 1991a: unit W21d [p.]; Tuulik, 1994: 32; Müller, 1998: Annex 5.