43.5 - Subcontinental nemoral pine-oak forests

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Acidophilous forests in which Quercus robur and/or Quercus petraea are associated in the main canopy with Pinus sylvestris, characteristic of sandy substrates and granitic arenas of subcontinental climate regions in the High-Palatinate, the Erzgebirge, the Vogtland, the southern Saxony hills, the western, northern and eastern Bohemian basin, Brandenburg, Poland, the western Ukraine and Lithuania, and of siliceous bedrock, gravels, loams, moraines, with shallow, often podzolized soils, on relatively dry, often south-facing slopes and hilltops of the collinar and submontane levels of the Bohemian quadrangle, the Carpathians, the eastern Alps and their associated plateaux. They constitute the pine-oak facies of forests of unit 41.5, particularly of units 41.58 and 41.57. Their precise nature can be indicated by transposing subdivisions of unit 41.5, replacing prefix 41.5 by prefix 43.5; their composition is described in a combined description of the mixed forests and the corresponding deciduous forests of unit 41.5, combined description which is to be found under the code of the deciduous forest, within division 41.5.

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)

Saphronova, 1964a: units 11a, 11b; Saphronova, 1964c: units 58, 13a, 13b; Birot, 1970: 115-118, 121, 159-160, 170-171; Walter, 1974: 105-117; Sokolowski, 1980; Nordiska ministerradet, 1984: unit 2.3.1.1; Matuszkiewicz, 1984: 102-103, 210-212; Walter and Breckle, 1986: 135-145; Rieley and Page, 1990; Korotkov & al., 1991; Shugart & al., 1992; Dyduch-Falniowska, 1992; Påhlsson, 1994: unit 2.3.1.1; Huetz de Lemps, 1994: 87.