44 - Temperate riverine and swamp forests and brush

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Tree and shrub vegetation of flood plains, marshes, fens and bogs of the nemoral, boreal, steppic, warm-temperate humid, mediterranean, cold desert and subtropical desert zones. Within the latter two zones and their transition areas, in which most or all tree growth is linked to permanent or temporary water courses or water tables, only the formations that depend on the highest water tables, such as the tamarix communities and those formed by northern riparian trees, have been included in this category, while wadi- or oasis-dependant thorn woodland and palm communities are included in unit 4B.

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)

Schweinfurth, 1957; Ellenberg, 1963, 1988; Zohary, 1973: 377-378, 385; Horvat & al., 1974; Yon and Tendron, 1981; Ozenda, 1985; Walter and Breckle, 1986; Peinado Lorca and Rivas-Martinez, 1987; Pott, 1996.