16.2121 - Atlantic white dunes

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

White dunes of the Atlantic, south to Aquitaine, of the North Sea and of the Baltic coasts of Denmark, southern Sweden, Germany, Poland, the Baltic States and Russia, dominated, when vegetated, by marram grass (Ammophila arenaria) accompanied by, among others, Eryngium maritimum, Euphorbia paralias, Calystegia soldanella.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Honkenyo-Elymion arenarii: Elymo arenarii-Ammophiletum arenariae; Ammophilion arenariae: Euphorbio paraliae-Ammophiletum arenariae, Sileno thorei-Ammophiletum arenariae

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)

Braun-Blanquet & al., 1972; Guinochet and Vilmorin, 1973; Westhoff and den Held, 1975; LahondŠre, 1980; Parent and Burny, 1981; Piotrowska and Stasiak, 1982; Nordiska ministerradet, 1984: unit 4.1.2.9 [p.]; Matuszkiewicz, 1984; Géhu, 1985: 19-22, 26, 27, 28, 40, 50-56; Géhu, 1986; Ellenberg, 1988; Oberdorfer, 1990; Pott, 1992; Balevicius, 1992: 204; Julve, 1993: 40, 41; Påhlsson, 1994: unit 4.1.3.1 [p.]; Géhu & al., 1995: 99-102; Müller, 1998: Annex 5.