42.AA11 - Mediterranean Phoenician juniper woods

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Uncommon forest-like Juniperus phoenicea formations of rocky scarps, plateaux and slopes of the western and central Mediterranean basin, the western North African coastal areas, Crete, the eastern Aegean islands, the western Anatolian coasts, Cyprus, Jordan, the Sinai, Cyrenaica. Most Mediterranean formations dominated by Juniperus phoenicea are scrubs, thickets or arborescent matorrals, listed under units 32.132, 32.45, 32.55, 32.B5 or, in dunal formations, unit 16.272. Only exceptional, tall and dense formations, appropriately characterized as woodland, are listed in this unit.

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)

Holmboe, 1914: 285-289; Quézel and Santa, 1962; Gounot and Schoenenberger, 1967; Zohary, 1973: 28, 153-154, 350-351, 522, 530; Meikle, 1977: 8; White, 1983: 153; Viney, 1994: xvi; Prpic, 1996: 67; Benabid and Fennane, 1999: 80.