34.3 - Dense perennial grasslands and middle European steppes

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Dry closed thermophilous grasslands of middle European or Mediterranean lowlands and hills, up to the montane zone, dominated by perennial grasses; steppic grasslands of continental affinities occurring under subcontinental conditions within the middle European nemoral and boreonemoral forest zones, in the Alpine system and in the sub-Mediterranean zone of the Balkans.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Festuco-Brometea 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)

Schubert, 1973; Wolkinger and Plank, 1981; Walter and Breckle, 1986; Ellenberg, 1988.