43.7 - Thermophilous pine-oak forests

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Forests or woods of sub-Mediterranean climate regions and supra-Mediterranean altitudinal levels, and of western Eurasian steppe and substeppe zones, in which deciduous or semideciduous thermophilous Quercus species, or sometimes Carpinus spp., Ostrya carpinifolia, share the main canopy with Pinus sylvestris, Pinus pallasiana, Pinus saltzmannii, Pinus nigra, thermophilous pines, junipers or cypresses. They constitute pine-oak facies of forests of unit 41.7, particularly of unit 41.7A. Their precise nature can be indicated by transposing subdivisions of unit 41.7, replacing prefix 41.7 by prefix 43.7; their composition is described in a combined description of the mixed forests and the corresponding deciduous forests of unit 41.7, combined description which is to be found under the code of the deciduous forest, within division 41.7.

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)

Oberdorfer, 1947, 1990; Duvigneaud, 1953; Jakucs, 1960; Soo, 1962; Horvat & al., 1974; Noirfalise, 1987; Peinado-Lorca and Rivas-Martinez, 1987; Ellenberg, 1988; Bondev, 1991.