15.8 - Mediterranean salt steppes

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Associations rich in perennial, rosette-forming Limonium spp. or esparto grass, Lygeum spartum, occupying, in Mediterranean coastal regions and on the fringes of endoreic interior salt basins of arid mediterranean Iberia and North Africa, soils temporarily permeated (though not inundated) by saline water and subject to extreme summer drying, with formation of salt efflorescences. These formations constitute a Mediterranean equivalent of the more continental formations of 15.A; the communities of Aegean and eastern Mediterranean coastal saltmarshes, included here, and those of interior Anatolia and steppic North Africa, listed under 15.A, are of a somewhat intermediate character.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Limonietalia

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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