31.8B - Subcontinental and continental deciduous thickets

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Deciduous pre- and postforest formations, forest edges, hedges and woodland recolonization of thermophilous deciduous oak forest and steppe forest zones of the Balkan peninsula, of southeastern Europe, of western Asia and of Central Eurasia, in particular, of the Quercion frainetto and Ostryo-Carpinion zones of the Balkan peninsula, with very local irradiations in Central Europe, extreme northeastern Italy, the Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Prunetalia: Prunion fruticosae; Orno-Cotinetalia: Orno-Cotinion p., Ostryo-Carpinion orientalis p., Syringo-Carpinion orientalis p.

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)

Rechinger, 1951; Jakucs, 1960; Soo, 1962, 1980; Zohary, 1973: 522, 550, 554, 566, 580-588; Horvat & al., 1974; Sanda & al., 1980; Moravec & al., 1983; Polunin and Walters, 1985; Ellenberg, 1988; Oberdorfer, 1990, 1992b; Bondev, 1991; Wirth, 1993.