31.83 - Atlantic poor soil thickets

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Deciduous thickets of Western Europe and western and northern Central Europe formed by Rubus spp., Frangula alnus, Sorbus aucuparia, Corylus avellana, Lonicera periclymenum, Cytisus scoparius, characteristic of forest edges, hedges and woodland recolonization developed on soils relatively poor in nutrients, usually acid, mostly under climates with strong Atlantic influence, substitution communities of the Quercion robori-petraeae (units 41.51-41.56, 41.57 p., 41.58 p.).

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Rhamno-Prunetea: Prunetalia p.: Pruno-Rubion fruticosi p.: Frangulo-Rubenion (Rubion subatlanticum: Franguletalia): Frangulo-Rubetum plicati, Calamagrostio villosae-Franguletum i.a.

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)

Westhoff and den Held, 1975; Vanden Berghen, 1982; Ellenberg, 1988; Rameau & al., 1989; Oberdorfer, 1990; Rodwell, 1991a: unit W24; Pott, 1992; Oberdorfer, 1992b; Mucina, 1993c; Wilmanns, 1993; Schubert & al., 1995.