9 - Wooded grasslands and scrubs

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Large ecosystems composed of a mosaic combination of woodland and grassland, of scattered trees growing within grass or shrub ecosystems, or of native trees shading surfaces transformed for grazing or cultivation, in which a stable equilibrium between the tree and grass or scrub formations is naturally or artificially maintained. They are characteristic of zonal ecotones, and of some regions where traditional extensive combined agro-pastoral methods are used. Their constituting elements can be specified by use of codes borrowed from sections 3 and 4, occasionally from section 8. Transition pre- and post-forest phases, covered in section 3, are excluded, as are very artificial rural mosaics included in section 8.

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)

Walter, 1979; Soltner, 1985.