32.5 - Eastern garrigues

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Shrubby formations, often low, of the meso-, thermo- and occasionally supramediterranean zones of continental Greece, its archipelagoes, of Cyprus, Asia Minor and the Levant, of extreme southern Albania in the Butrintit Lake basin. Included here are all sclerophyllous formations, regardless of substrate, except those with conspicuous cushion structure (phryganas s.s., listed in unit 33, and hedgehog-heaths, listed in unit 31.7), those with abundant Pistacia lentiscus, Myrtus communis or other thermo-Mediterranean brush elements (Phillyrea spp., Erica manipuliflora, Styrax officinalis, Genista fasselata, Euphorbia dendroides, Calicotome villosa, Sarcopoterium spinosum) listed in unit 32.2 and high maquis with Erica arborea and Arbutus spp., listed in unit 32.3. The subdivisions proposed are based on the physiognomically most significant dominants; codominance can be indicated by use of multiple codes.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Micromerietea p.

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)

Rechinger, 1951; Oberdorfer, 1954; Zohary, 1973; Horvat & al., 1974; Huxley and Taylor, 1977; Ozenda & al., 1979; Reisigl & al., 1980; Polunin, 1980; Quézel, 1981b; Polunin and Walters, 1985; Turland & al., 1993: 7; Jahn and Schönfelder, 1995: 18-19.