34.7 - Niveau 3 : Pelouses méditerranéo-montagnardes
Description
Open perennial grasslands, often rich in chamaephytes, most characteristic of the thermophilous oak level of Iberia, southern France, southern Italy and Greece. Some of the largest remaining expanses of unbroken grasslands in Europe, of evident importance as faunal habitats, belong to this division.
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34.72 - Niveau 4 : Steppes supra-méditerranéennes et prairies à Aphyllanthes
Description
Coarse or steppe-like grasslands rich in chamaephytes of pronounced Mediterranean affinities formed as a degradation stage of thermophile deciduous oak forests, or of Quercus rotundifolia forests, in the supra-Mediterranean belt of Iberia, southern France and Liguria; grassland facies of the supra-Mediterranean garrigues (32.6) and hedgehog heaths (31.7).