Acid siliceous screes of warm exposures

English name: Acid siliceous screes of warm exposures

Description (English)

Siliceous screes of warm exposures in mountain ranges of the nemoral zone, including the Alps, Pyrenees and Caucasus, and of Mediterranean mountains, hills and lowlands and, locally, of warm, sunny middle European upland or lowland sites.

Source:
EUNIS habitat classification
Interpretation Manual of the habitats targeted by Resolution No. 4

Quick facts

EUNIS habitat type code H2.5
Bern Convention Resolution 4 habitat type (used for designation of Emerald sites)
Relation to Annex I habitat types (EU Habitats Directive)

Vegetation types

Relation to vegetation types (syntaxa)

Name Definition Other names Reference
Gymnogrammo-Scrophularion Rivas Goday 1964 Meso-oromediterranean saxicolous communities of exposed silicious rock-shelves of central and western Iberian Peninsula Rumici-Dianthion lusitani Rivas-Mart. et al. 1973; Rumici indurati-Dianthion lusitani Rivas-Mart., Izco et Costa ex Rivas-Mart. et al. 1986; Gymnogrammo-Scrophularion Rivas Goday ex M.A. Alonso et al. 1998 Schaminee et al, 2012
Galeopsion pyneraicae Rivas-Mart. 1977 Submontane silicicolous scree communities of Pyrenees Schaminee et al, 2012
Linario saxatilis-Senecionion carpetani Rivas-Mart. 1964 Vegetation of siliceous screes and moraines of mountains of central and northern Iberian Peninsula Phalacrocarpion Rothmaler 1954 Schaminee et al, 2012
Galeopsion Oberd. 1957 Submontane silicicolous scree communities of Central Europe Schaminee et al, 2012
Holcion caespitosi Quézel 1953 Vegetation of oromediterranean siliceous screes and moraines of Sierra Nevada (Iberian Peninsula) Violo-Linarion glacialis Esteve et P. Prieto in P. Prieto 1973 Schaminee et al, 2012
Sesamoidion suffruticosae Ortiz et Pulgar 2000 Saxicolous communities on siliceous crevices and gravel slopes in temperate regions of southern Galicia and northern Portugal Schaminee et al, 2012
Dryopteridion oreadis Rivas-Mart. 1977 corr. Rivas-Mart. et al. 1984 Vegetation of montane-subalpine and relict oro-mediterranean siliceous screes and moraines of Pyrenean, Iberian and Apenninian Peninsulas Dryopteridion oreadis Rivas-Mart. 1977 corr. Rivas-Mart. et al. 1982; Dryopteridion abbreviatae Rivas-Mart. 1977; Dryopteridion oreadis Rivas-Mart. 1977 corr. Rivas-Mart. et al. 1986 Schaminee et al, 2012

Species mentioned in habitat description

Not available

Other classifications

Classification Code Habitat type name Relationship type
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 200112 61.3 Western Mediterranean and thermophilous screes wider
CORINE Land Cover 3.3.2. Bare rock n/a
Milieux Naturels de Suisse 1998 3.3.2.3 Eboulis siliceux thermophiles narrower
Milieux Naturels de Suisse 1998 3.3.1.5 Eboulis calcaire thermophile overlap
Biotopes of Slovakia 1996 4321000 Silikátové sutiny montánneho stupna n/a
For relation to plant communities (syntaxa), see Vegetation types

History

Classification Code Habitat type name Relationship type
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200410 H2.5 Acid siliceous screes of warm exposures same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308 H2.5 Acid siliceous screes of warm exposures same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202 H2.5 Acid siliceous screes of warm exposures same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199910 H2.5 Acid siliceous screes of warm exposures same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199811 H2.5 Acid siliceous screes of warm exposures same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199712 H2.5 Siliceous screes of warm exposures same
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 199905 61.3 Part of Western Mediterranean and thermophilous screes wider
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1997 61.3 Part of Western Mediterranean and thermophilous screes wider
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1996 61.3   wider
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1993 61.3   wider
CORINE Biotopes Classification 1991 61.3   wider
CORINE Biotopes Classification 1989 61.3   wider
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