EUNIS habitat classification 2012 amended 2019 > G - Woodland, forest and other wooded land > G1 - Broadleaved deciduous woodland > G1.2 - Mixed riparian floodplain and gallery woodland

Mixed riparian floodplain and gallery woodland

English name: Mixed riparian floodplain and gallery woodland

Description (English)

Mixed riparian forests, sometimes structurally complex and species-rich, of floodplains and of galleries beside slow- and fast-flowing rivers of the nemoral, boreo-nemoral, steppe and submediterranean zones. Gallery woods with Acer, Fraxinus, Prunus or Ulmus, together with species listed for G1.1. Floodplain woodland characterized by mixtures of Alnus, Fraxinus, Populus, Quercus, Ulmus, Salix.

Source: EUNIS habitat classification

Quick facts

EUNIS habitat type	code G1.2
Relation to	Annex I habitat types (EU Habitats Directive)

Legal status

Relation to other habitat types mentioned in legal instruments

Legal text	Annex	Name in legal text	Code in legal text	Habitat type relationship	More information
Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora - consolidated version 01/01/2007	Annex I: natural habitat types of community interest whose conservation requires the designation of special areas of conservation	Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Padion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae)	91E0	Overlap	http://ec.europa.eu/environm...rective/index_en.htm
Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora - consolidated version 01/01/2007	Annex I: natural habitat types of community interest whose conservation requires the designation of special areas of conservation	Riparian mixed forests of Quercus robur, Ulmus laevis and Ulmus minor, Fraxinus excelsior or Fraxinus angustifolia, along the great rivers (Ulmenion minoris)	91F0	Wider

Vegetation types

Relation to vegetation types (syntaxa)

Name	Definition	Other names	Reference
Alnion incanae Pawlowski et al. 1928	Alder-ash and oak riparian floodplain forests on nutrient-rich alluvial soils in nemoral zone of Europe	Cardamino-Fraxinion excelsae Passarge in Passarge et G. Hofmann 1968; Circaeo-Ulmion carpinifoliae Passarge in Passarge et G. Hofmann 1968; Alno-Padion Knapp ex Medwecka-Kornas in W. Matuszkiewicz et Borowik 1957; Carici remotae-Fraxinion excelsae Passarge in Passarge et G. Hofmann 1968; Eu-Filipendulo-Fraxinion excelsae Passarge in Passarge et G. Hofmann 1968; Carpino-Ulmion scabrae Passarge in Passarge et G. Hofmann 1968; Eu-Fraxino-Quercion roboris Passarge in Passarge et G. Hofmann 1968; Fraxino-Quercion roboris Passarge in Passarge et G. Hofmann 1968; Eu-Milio-Fraxinion excelsae Passarge in Passarge et G. Hofmann 1968; Alnion incanae Lakušic et al. 1975; Alnion incanae Lakušic et al. 1979; Alno-Fraxinion Meijer-Drees 1936; Alno-Fraxinion Scamoni et Passarge 1959 p.p.; Alno-Padion Knapp 1942; Alno-Ulmion Br.-Bl. et Tx. 1943; Alno-Ulmion Br.-Bl. et Tx. ex Tchou 1948; Cardamino-Fraxinion excelsae Passarge 1968; Carici remotae-Fraxinion excelsae Passarge 1968; Carici-Ulmion carpinifoliae Passarge 1968; Carpino-Ulmion Passarge 1968; Carpino-Ulmion carpinifoliae Passarge 1968; Carpino-Ulmion scabrae Passarge 1968; Circaeo-Ulmion carpinifoliae Passarge 1968; Eu-Filipendulo-Fraxinion excelsae Passarge 1968; Eu-Fraxino-Quercion roboris Passarge 1968; Eu-Milio-Fraxinion excelsae Passarge 1968; Filipendulo-Fraxinion excelsae Passarge 1968; Fraxinion excelsioris Moor 1977; Fraxinion excelsioris Nègre 1972; Fraxino excelsioris-Alnion glutinosae Julve 1993; Fraxino excelsioris-Quercion roboris Rameau 1997; Fraxino-Alnion Oberd. 1953; Fraxino-Carpinion Tx. et Diemont 1936; Fraxino-Quercion roboris Passarge 1968; Fraxino-Ulmion Ellenberg 1963; Milio-Fraxinion excelsae Passarge 1968; Molinio-Alnion glutinosae Kevey 2008; Sorbion aucupariae Rameau in Rameau et al. 1993; Ulmo-Quercion roboris Passarge 1968; Milio-Fraxinion excelsae Passarge in Passarge et G. Hofmann 1968; Carpino-Ulmion Passarge in Passarge et G. Hofmann 1968; Carpino-Ulmion carpinifoliae Passarge in Passarge et G. Hofmann 1968; Fraxino excelsioris-Quercion roboris Rameau in Royer et al. 2006; Ulmo-Quercion roboris Passarge in Passarge et G. Hofmann 1968; Filipendulo-Fraxinion excelsae Passarge in Passarge et G. Hofmann 1968	Schaminee et al, 2012
Alno-Quercion roboris Horvat 1950	Alder-oak riparian floodplain forests on nutrient-rich alluvial soils of temperate regions of Balkan Peninsula	Alnion incanae Horvat 1938; Alno-Quercion roboris Horvat 1937; Ulmion Simon 1957	Schaminee et al, 2012

Species mentioned in habitat description

Not available

Other classifications

Classification	Code	Habitat type name	Relationship type
CORINE Land Cover	3.1.1.	Broad-leaved forest	n/a
BEAR Forest Types for Biodiversity Assessment	23	Flood plain (alluvial and riverine) forests	wider
Phase 1 habitat classification (UK) 1993	A111	Woodland: broadleaved, semi-natural	overlap
National Vegetation Classification (UK)	W6	Alnus glutinosa-Urtica dioica woodland	not defined
Milieux Naturels de Suisse 1998	6.1.4	Frênaie humide	narrower

For relation to plant communities (syntaxa), see Vegetation types

History

Classification	Code	Habitat type name	Relationship type
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200410	G1.2	Mixed riparian floodplain and gallery woodland	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308	G1.2	Fluvial Fraxinus - Alnus and Quercus - Ulmus - Fraxinus woodland	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202	G1.2	Fluvial Fraxinus - Alnus and Quercus - Ulmus - Fraxinus woodland	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199910	G1.2	Fluvial Fraxinus - Alnus and Quercus - Ulmus - Fraxinus woodland	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199811	G1.2	Fluvial Fraxinus-Alnus and Quercus-Ulmus-Fraxinus woodland	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199712	G1.4	Fluvial ash-alder and oak-elm-ash woodland	same

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