31 - Landes et fruticées tempérées

Temperate heath and scrub

Typologie des habitats de Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon

Descriptif anglais

Shrub communities of nemoral affinities. They include winter-deciduous scrubs or brushes of the subarctic, subantarctic, nemoral, steppe, warm-temperate humid and mediterranean zones, ericoid or coniferous scrubs of the subarctic, subantarctic, nemoral, steppe and warm-temperate humid zones and scrubs, heaths, cushion-heaths or brushes of the cold, extrasylvatic or supradesertic altitude belts of subarctic, subantarctic, nemoral, mediterranean and subtropical high mountains. In the Palaearctic realm, Atlantic heaths, high montane and boreomontane heaths and conifer scrubs, subalpine bush communities, oro-Mediterranean and Irano-Turanian tragacanthic communities, deciduous forest and temperate conifer forest recolonisation communities belong to this unit.

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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