9120 - Hêtraies acidophiles atlantiques à sous-bois à Ilex et parfois à Taxus (Quercion robori-petraeae ou Ilici-Fagenion)

Atlantic acidophilous beech forests with Ilex and sometimes also Taxus in the shrublayer (Quercion robori-petraeae or Ilici-Fagenion)

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Beech forests with Ilex, growing on acid soils, of the plain to montane levels under humid Atlantic climate. The acid substrate corresponds to alterations of acid rocks or to silt with flints more or less degraded or, to old alluvial deposits. The soils are of acid brown type, leaching or with an evolution towards podsol type. The humus is of moder to dysmoder type. These beech forests present different varieties:
a) subatlantic beech-oak forests of the plains and hill levels with Ilex aquifolium
b) hyper-Atlantic beech-oak forests of the plains and hill levels with Ilex and Taxus, rich in epiphytes
c) pure beech forests or acidophilous beech-fir forests of the montane level, with Ilex aquifolium in the field layer.

Espèces caractéristiques

Plants: Ilex aquifolium, Taxus baccata, Ruscus aculeatus, Deschampsia flexuosa, Hieracium sabaudum, H. umbellatum, Pteridium aquilinum, Vaccinium myrtillus, Lonicera periclymenum, Melampyrum pratense, Teucrium scorodonia, Holcus mollis.

Correspondances avec la classification du Paléarctique

41.12

Correspondances avec d'autres classifications

United Kingdom classification: ‘W14 Fagus sylvatica-Rubus fruticosus woodland' pp and ‘W15 Fagus sylvatica-Deschampsia flexuosa woodland p.p.'.
German classification: ‘43070502 bodensaurer Buchenwald der planaren Stufe'.

Remarques

Oak may dominate in some of these forests due to the coppice-with-standards regime of the past centuries. If the intensity of the management decreases beech and also Ilex often regenerate spontaneously.

Bibliography

 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)