41.B1 - Atlantic lowland and collinar birch woods

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Pioneer and subclimax Betula pendula or Betula pubescens formations of the North Sea-Baltic plains, the lower Hercynian slopes, the periphery of the Paris Basin, southwestern France, northwestern Iberia, Insubria and Illyria, within the range of Atlantic and sub-Atlantic acidophilous oak woods.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Quercion robori-petraeae p., i.a.

Bibliography

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)

Simms, 1971; Westhoff and den Held, 1975; Groppali & al., 1980; Condry, 1981; Nordiska ministerradet, 1984: units 2.2.4.5, 2.2.4.5a, 2.2.4.6; Bournérias, 1984; Izco, 1987; Noirfalise, 1987: 27-31; Ellenberg, 1988: 181-187; Ferioli, 1989; Oberdorfer, 1990; Rodwell, 1991a; Påhlsson, 1994: units 2.2.1.5, 2.2.1.5a, 2.2.1.7; Pignatti, 1998.