17.43 - Tethyan gravel bank scrubs and heaths

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Relatively closed or closed, stable, communities of shrubs, subshrubs, forbs or grasses colonizing landward expanses of large coastal gravel banks of the Mediterranean, the subtropical Atlantic and the Black Sea, related to grey dune, garrigue, maquis or phrygana communities. Codes of units 16.22, 32 or 33 can be used to define communities.

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)

Paradis and Piazza, 1995: 71-74, 77.