41.71 - Western white oak woods and related communities

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Quercus pubescens forests and woods of the supra-Mediterranean zone of France, west of the Alpine arc, and of northeastern Spain, with irradiations to southern Germany and Belgium. Low medio-European forests of Quercus petraea or Quercus robur occupying warm exposures beyond the range of Quercus pubescens and linked to the Quercion pubescenti-petraeae by the presence of Buxus sempervirens or other thermophile calcicolous plants, including Limodorum abortivum, Melittis melissophyllum.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Quercetalia pubescenti-petraeae: Quercion pubescenti-petraeae: Buxo-Quercenion pubescentis: Buxo-Quercetum, Lithospermo-Quercetum petraeae, Pteridio-Quercetum pubescentis, Aceri-Quercetum petraeae; Quercion ilicis 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)

Duvigneaud, 1953; Rey & al., 1963; Vanden Berghen, 1963; Oberdorfer, 1967, 1990; Archiloque & al., 1970; Barbero & al., 1971; Tomaselli, 1981a; Tombal, 1974; Ozenda and Wagner, 1975; Ozenda, 1975; Ortuno and Ceballos, 1977; Ozenda & al., 1979; Noirfalise, 1984, 1986, 1987; Loidi Arregui, 1987; Bolos y Capdevila, 1987; Vigo and Ninot, 1987; Ellenberg, 1988; Oberdorfer, 1992b; Chytry, 1997; Chytry & al., 1998.