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42.5 - Western Palaearctic Scots pine forests
42.4 - Mountain pine forests
42.6 - Black pine forests

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Forests of Pinus sylvestris ssp. sylvestris and Pinus sylvestris ssp. hamata of the Nemoral and Mediterranean zones of western Eurasia and of their transitions to the Steppe zone. Included are, in particular, the forests of Scotland, of the Alpine system, of the Mediterranean peninsulas, of the lowlands of Central Europe, of the East European Nemoral zone and its adjacent wooded steppes, formed by Pinus sylvestris ssp. sylvestris, as well as those of Anatolia, of the Caucacus and of Crimea, formed by Pinus sylvestris ssp. hamata. Excluded are the formations situated within the northern, non-Alpigenous, area of natural lowland occurrence of Picea abies, dominated by northern forms of Pinus sylvestris ssp. sylvestris (Pinus sylvestris var. septentrionalis, Pinus sylvestris var. rigensis, Pinus sylvestris var. borealis, Pinus sylvestris var. rossica), and those dominated by Pinus sylvestris ssp. lapponica or by Pinus sylvestris ssp. sibirica, all of which are treated as constituents of the taiga and its transitions to the nemoral and steppe zones, and are listed under units 42.C and 42.D. Also excluded are the forests formed by the Central Asian Pinus sylvestris ssp. kulundensis, listed under unit 42.E.

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)

Gaussen & al., 1969; Ozenda, 1982:76; Walter and Breckle, 1986; Rushforth, 1987; Molotkov and Patlaj, 1991; Boratynski, 1991; Jahn, 1991; Bondev, 1991; Shugart & al., 1992.