34.312 - Central European steppic grasslands

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Xerophile or mesoxerophile grasslands, developed in areas with a locally high degree of continentality, of Alsace, the upper Rhine valley and hills, Franconia, Thuringe, Saxony, the lower and middle Oder basin, the lower Vistula valley, the upper Vistula basin and Lublin Uplands, Lithuania, the Bohemian basin, the eastern Alpine periphery and inner valleys.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Festucetalia valesiacae: Festucion valesiacae p., Cirsio-Brachypodion pinnati p.

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)

Wolkinger and Plank, 1981; Moravec & al., 1983; Matuszkiewicz, 1984; Ellenberg, 1988; Zimmermann & al., 1989; Oberdorfer, 1990, 1993a, 1994; Pott, 1992; Mucina and Kolbek, 1993a.