9330 - Forêts à Quercus suber

Quercus suber forests

Liste hiérarchisée et descriptifs des Habitats d'Intérêt Communautaire (HIC) de la directive "Habitats-Faune-Flore"

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West-Mediterranean silicicolous forests dominated by Quercus suber, usually more thermophile and hygrophile than 45.3.
Sub-types :
45.21 - Tyrrhenian cork-oak forests
Quercion suberis
Mostly meso-Mediterranean Quercus suber forests of Italy, Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, France
and north-eastern Spain. They are most often degraded to arborescent matorral (32.11).
45.22 - South-western Iberian cork-oak forests
Quercion fagineo-suberis
Quercus suber forests, often with Q. faginea or Q. canariensis, of the south-western quadrant of the Iberian peninsula.
45.23 -North-western Iberian cork-oak forests
Very local, exiguous Quercus suber enclaves in the Q. pyrenaica forest area of the valleys of the Sil and of the Mino (Galicia).
45.24 - Aquitanian cork-oak woodland
Isolated Q. suber-dominated stands occurring either as a facies of dunal pine-cork oak forests or in a very limited area of the eastern Landes.

Espèces caractéristiques

Plants: Quercus suber.

Correspondances avec la classification du Paléarctique

45.2

Bibliographie

 Conseil de l'Union européenne, 2013. Directive 2013/17/UE du Conseil du 13 mai 2013 portant adaptation de certaines directives dans le domaine de l'environnement, du fait de l'adhésion de la République de Croatie. Annexes. Partie B Protection de la nature. Journal officiel de l'Union européenne, L 158 du 10/06/2013, p. : 195-203. (Source)

 European Commission, 2013. Interpretation manual of European Union habitats. EUR 28. European Commission, DG Environment, 144 p. (Source)