Ponto-Sarmatic steppes

Description (English)

Steppes of the plain of the western Black Sea, west of the Dniester, of its associated basins, including those of the lower Danube, of Transylvania and of northern Thrace, of the southern edge and valleys of the Podolian, Central Russian and Volga plateaux, with Stipa capillata, Kochia prostrata, Koeleria lobata (Koeleria degenii), Stipa lessingiana, Festuca valesiaca, Dichanthium ischaemum (Bothriochloa ischaemum), Medicago minima, Brachypodium pinnatum.

Source: EUNIS habitat classification

Quick facts

EUNIS habitat type code R1B8

Vegetation types

Relation to vegetation types (syntaxa)

Not available

Species mentioned in habitat description

Flowering Plants Brachypodium pinnatum
Species scientific name English common name Species group
Brachypodium pinnatum Flowering Plants

Other classifications

Classification Code Habitat type name Relationship type
EUNIS Habitat Classification 2007 (revised descriptions 2012) E1.2D Ponto-Sarmatic steppes same
For relation to plant communities (syntaxa), see Vegetation types

History

Classification Code Habitat type name Relationship type Comment
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200410 E1.2D Ponto-Sarmatic steppes same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308 E1.2D Ponto-Sarmatic steppes same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202 E1.2D Ponto-Sarmatic steppes same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199910 E1.2D Ponto-Sarmatic steppes same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199811 E1.2D Ponto-Sarmatic steppes same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199712 E1.172 Ponto-Sarmatic steppes same
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 199905 34.92 Ponto-Sarmatic steppes same
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1997 34.92 Ponto-Sarmatic steppes same
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1996 34.92   same
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1993 34.92   same
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