41.53 - British and Irish sessile oak woods

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Acidophilous Quercus petraea woods of the British Isles, with low, low-branched, trees, with many ferns, mosses, lichens and evergreen bushes; the herb layer is formed by the group of Deschampsia flexuosa.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Quercenion robori-petraeae: Blechno-Quercetum petraeae

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)

Massey, 1974; Kelly and Moore, 1974; Ozenda & al., 1979; Condry, 1981; Noirfalise, 1987; Rodwell, 1991a.