32 - Sclerophyllous scrub

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Evergreen sclerophyllous or lauriphyllous shrub communities of mediterranean or warm-temperate humid affinities, occurring mostly in the Mediterranean, Macaronesian, Ponto-Hyrcanian and Sino-Japanese regions as recolonisation and degradation stages of broad-leaved evergreen forests, but irradiating into deciduous forest areas in supra-Mediterranean levels and in parts of the nemoral region, into steppe areas in the Irano-Anatolian and Saharo-Mediterranean zones, and into desert areas in northwest Africa. Included are coarse erme communities of similar structure and genesis and syntopic occurrence.

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)

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