41.98 - Galloprovincial chestnut forests

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Castanea sativa-dominated forests and naturalized plantations of southeastern France, in particular, of the Maures, the C‚vennes and the eastern Pyrenees, where they may be, in part, indigenous and are characteristic of the supramediterranean level, with a cortŠge of acidophilous Quercion pubescenti-petraeae forests.

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)

Dupias, 1985: 104; Rameau & al., 1993: 493.