41.16 - Medio-European limestone beech forests

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Xero-thermophile Fagus sylvatica forests developed on calcareous, often superficial, soils, usually of steep slopes, of the medio-European and Atlantic domaines of Western Europe and of central and northern Central Europe, with a generally abundant herb and shrub undergrowth, characterized by sedges (Carex digitata, Carex flacca, Carex montana, Carex alba), grasses (Sesleria albicans, Brachypodium pinnatum), orchids (Cephalanthera spp., Neottia nidus-avis, Epipactis leptochila, Epipactis microphylla) and thermophile species, transgressive of the Quercetalia pubescenti-petraeae. The bush-layer includes several calcicolous species (Ligustrum vulgare, Berberis vulgaris) and Buxus sempervirens can dominate.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Cephalanthero-Fagenion

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)

Tüxen and Oberdorfer, 1958; Duvigneaud, 1961; Noirfalise, 1962, 1984, 1986, 1987; Ellenberg, 1963, 1988; Durin & al., 1964; Bournérias, 1979; Ozenda & al., 1979; Ozenda, 1979, 1982, 1985; Soo, 1980; Timbal, 1981; Matuszkiewicz, 1981b; Moravec & al., 1982; Loidi Arregui, 1987; Diaz Gonzalez and Fernandez Prieto, 1987; Navarro Andres and Valle Gutierrez, 1987; Oberdorfer, 1990, 1992b; Wallnöfer & al., 1993.