41.4 - Mixed ravine and slope forests

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Cool, moist forests with a multispecific tree layer of variable dominance, most often on more or less abrupt slopes. They are of considerable biohistorical and biogeographical importance, as examples of the mixed forests of the Atlantic period, preserved in stations inaccessible to beech domination.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Tilio platyphylli-Acerion pseudoplatani

Bibliography

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)

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