32.92 - Thistle fields

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Communities of degraded terrains of the Mediterranean basin overwhelmingly dominated by facies-forming thistles, notably of genera Carthamus, Carlina, Centaurea, Onopordum, Notobasis, Galactites.

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)

Le Houérou, 1986; Lanfranco, 1999a; Schembri, 1999b.