15.53 - Mediterranean halo-psammophile meadows

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Drier, dense formations of sandy soils at the foot of dunes, or between dunes and lagoons of the Mediterranean and thermo-Atlantic coasts of Europe and North Africa, and of the endoreic interior basins of Mediterranean Iberia, with Plantago crassifolia, Schoenus nigricans, Juncus littoralis, Spartina versicolor (Spartina patens, Spartina juncea), Elymus elongatus, Inula crithmoides, all of which may dominate and form physiognomically distinct, sometimes almost monospecific, facies.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Plantaginion crassifoliae: Schoeno-Plantaginetum crassifoliae, Schoeno-Plantaginetum maritimae, Junco acuti-Schoenetum nigricantis

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)

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