42.59 - Supra-Mediterranean Scots pine forests

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Pinus sylvestris-dominated facies of the thermophilous, supra-Mediterranean oak woods (unit 41.7), alternated, mixed or imbricated with Quercus pubescens or Quercus faginea woods in the southwestern Alpine foothills, on the periphery of the Central Massif, along the southern flank of the Pyrenees and, locally, in the Ligurian and Insubrian Alps, in the western Alps of northern Dauphin‚ and Savoie, in the northern Apennines and on the northern flank of the Pyrenees. Buxus sempervirens is usually abundant in the undergrowth; other components of the shrub layer include Corylus avellana, Sorbus aria, Sorbus torminalis, Acer opalus, Acer campestre, Acer monspessulanum, Evonymus latifolius, Genista cinerea, Juniperus communis.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

"Pinetum sylvestris", "Buxo-Quercetum hylocomio-pinetosum"

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)

Archiloque & al., 1969; Tosco, 1975; Ozenda, 1985; Dupias, 1985; Vigo and Ninot, 1987; Bassani, 1987; Bolos y Capdevila, 1987.