Habitat types key navigation

You can use the 'key navigation' function to identify a specific habitat by answering a set of questions. Starting from first question to next questions you select one of the possible answers. Here are samples of possible answers:

• No ( 002 ) - Leading to question named '002'
• Yes [ G ] - Leading to another questions subset of level G
• No [ E6 ] - Links directly to factsheet for E6

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Category : (G3 )Coniferous woodland
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Question g14 :   Highly artificial?

Highly artificial coniferous forests (often of exotic species) of uniform age and structure, completely dependent on man’s operations and with impoverished associated communities (path = Yes) are separated from less highly managed habitats.

Answers: Yes [ G3.F ] No ( g15 )

Question g15 :   Hydrology

Two hydrological regimes are distinguished: wet (with the water table at or close to the surface for at least half the year); and mesic or dry.

Answers: wet ( g16 ) mesic or dry ( g17 )

Question g16 :   Boreal?

Wet coniferous woodland habitats characteristic of the Boreal zone are distinguished (path = Yes).

Answers: Yes [ G3.D ] No [ G3.E ]

Question g17 :   Boreal?

Mesic or dry coniferous woodland habitats characteristic of the Boreal zone are distinguished (path = Yes).

Answers: No ( g18 ) Yes ( g22 )

Question g18 :   Dominant species

Mesic and dry non-Boreal habitats are separated according to their dominant species groups: fir (Abies spp.) or spruce (Picea spp.); larch (Larix spp.) and/or Arolla (Pinus cembra); Pinus nigra group (Pinus nigra, Pinus dalmatica, Pinus laricio, Pinus pallasiana); cypresses (Cupressus and Tetraclinis), juniper (Juniperus) or yew (Taxus baccata); pine or pine-juniper (excluding P. nigra).

Answers: fir or spruce [ G3.1 ] larch and/or Arolla [ G3.2 ] Pinus nigra group [ G3.5 ] cypresses including Tetraclinis and juniper, or yew [ G3.9 ] pine or pine-juniper (excluding <I>P. nigra</I>) ( g19 )

Question g19 :   Biogeographic region

Pine (Pinus) and juniper (Juniperus)-dominated woodlands are separated between biogeographic region: Mediterranean; Macaronesian and other (Atlantic, Continental, Alpine, etc.)

Answers: other ( g20 ) Macaronesian [ G3.8 ] Mediterranean ( g21 )

Question g20 :   Altitude zone

Pine woodlands in the subalpine altitude zone (usually dominated by Pinus uncinata) are distinguished from those in the lowland and montane altitude zones usually dominated by Pinus sylvestris. Note that Pinus sylvestris forests may occur in the subalpine zone but follow path = lowland and montane.

Answers: subalpine [ G3.3 ] lowland and montane [ G3.4 ]

Question g21 :   Altitude zone

Mediterranean pine woodlands other than of Pinus nigra are separated by altitude into a group in the montane and subalpine zones close to the tree-line (dominated by Pinus heldreichii (=Pinus leucodermis), Pinus peuce) and thermophilous pine woodlands in lowland to montane situations (dominated by Pinus halepensis, P. pinea and P. pinaster).

Answers: subalpine [ G3.6 ] lowland to montane [ G3.7 ]

Question g22 :   Dominant species

Coniferous woodlands of the taiga zone are separated between those dominated by spruce; by pine; and by larch.

Answers: spruce [ G3.A ] pine [ G3.B ] larch [ G3.C ]