44.63 - Mediterranean riparian ash woods

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Riparian galleries of the mediterranean regions of the Iberian peninsula, southern France, the Italic peninsula, the large Tyrrhenian islands, the Hellenic peninsula, mediterranean North Africa and their zones of transition to adjacent climatic zones, dominated by tall Fraxinus angustifolia, mostly characteristic of less eutrophic soils than the elm and poplar galleries, and of drier stations, with shorter inundation periods, than those occupied by poplar woods.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

"Fraxino angustifoliae-Ulmetum minoris" p., "Fraxinion angustifoliae"

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)

Debazac and Mavrommatis, 1971; Knapp, 1973: 481; Horvat & al., 1974; Rivas-Martinez, 1975c; Lopez, 1976; Rivas-Martinez & al., 1980; Dierschke, 1980; Pedrotti, 1980; Yon and Tendron, 1981; Peinado Lorca & al., 1984; Fernandez Gonzalez, 1986; Asensi Marfil and Diez Garretas, 1987; Navarro Andres and Valle Gutierrez, 1987; Rivas-Martinez & al., 1987; Ladero Alvarez, 1987; Martinez Parras & al., 1987; Aparicio Martinez and Silvestre Domingo, 1987; Gamisans, 1991: 328-335.