84.2 - Hedgerows

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Ligneous formations arranged in a linear or reticulated manner, closely interwoven with grassy or cultivated habitats, usually serving functions of partition and shelter, characteristically formed of trees and shrubs in temperate oceanic regions of the western seaboard of continents, notably in the western Palaearctic, of cacti in arid and semiarid regions.

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)

de Planhol, 1976: 81; De Sloover & al., 1980: 81-84; Pott, 1996.