16.21 - Shifting dunes

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Mobile sands of the coasts of the boreal, nemoral, steppe, Mediterranean and warm-temperate humid zones, unvegetated or occupied by open grasslands; they may form tall dune ridges or, particularly along the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, be limited to a fairly flat upper beach, still subject in part to inundation.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Ammophiletea arenariae: Ammophiletalia arenariae: Agropyrion juncei, Ammophilion arenariae, Zygophyllion fontanesii

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)

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