45.12 - Carob woodland

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Ceratonia siliqua-dominated formations, often with Olea europae var. sylvestris and Pistacia lentiscus. The most developed examples, some truly forestlike, are to be found in Tunisia, on the slopes of the Djebel Ichkeul, where they constitute carob-dominated facies of the previous unit, in Mallorca (Cneoro tricocci-Ceratonietum siliquae), in eastern Sardinia, in southeastern Sicily, in Puglia, in Crete, in northeastern Algeria, in Cyrenaica.

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)

Oberdorfer, 1947; Fenaroli, 1970; Knapp, 1973: 474; Horvat & al., 1974; Quézel, 1981b; Tomaselli, 1981b; Groppali & al., 1983; Rivas-Martinez and Costa, 1987; Bousquet, 1992.