Ponto-Sarmatic riverine willow scrub

English name: Ponto-Sarmatic riverine willow scrub

Description (English)

Willow-dominated scrub of banks and shoals of rivers of the Pontic and Sarmatic steppes and wooded steppes of southern Eastern Europe, in particular, of the lower Danube, the lower Prut, the lower Dniestr, the lower Dniepr basin, the lower and middle Don and Donetz system, the lower Volga basin, the Kouma and Terek basins, with Salix triandra, Salix cinerea, Salix daphnoides var. acutifolia (Salix acutifolia), shrubby Salix alba, Salix amygdalina, Salix gmelini, Salix purpurea, Salix australior, and Hippophae rhamnoides.

Source: EUNIS habitat classification

Quick facts

EUNIS habitat type code F9.1282
Bern Convention Included in a Resolution 4 habitat type at a higher level (F9.1)

Vegetation types

Relation to vegetation types (syntaxa)

Not available

Species mentioned in habitat description

Flowering Plants Hippophae rhamnoides
Flowering Plants Salix alba
Flowering Plants Salix cinerea
Flowering Plants Salix purpurea
Flowering Plants Salix triandra
Species scientific name English common name Species group
Hippophae rhamnoides Flowering Plants
Salix alba Flowering Plants
Salix cinerea Flowering Plants
Salix purpurea Flowering Plants
Salix triandra Flowering Plants

Other classifications

Classification Code Habitat type name Relationship type
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 200112 44.1282 Ponto-Sarmatic riverine willow scrub source
For relation to plant communities (syntaxa), see Vegetation types

History

Classification Code Habitat type name Relationship type
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200410 F9.1282 Ponto-Sarmatic riverine willow scrub same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308 F9.1282 Ponto-Sarmatic riverine willow scrub same
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