StN DATABASE: CONTENT AND GLOSSARY OF ... - Pollinators

Pinus sylvestris (gen.), coniferous forests: forests of scots pine (Pinus sylvestris), with stands of
overmature, mature and young (saplings/scrub) trees.
CORINE 42.5: SCOTS PINE FORESTS; forests dominated by Pinus sylvestris.
Pinus sylvestris, conifer plantations: CORINE 83.3112: EUROPEAN PINE PLANTATIONS
Populus (gen.), deciduous plantations: CORINE 83.3211: POPLAR PLANTATIONS WITH
MEGAPHORB HERB LAYER; Old poplar plantations with a tall herb-rich undergrowth, substitution
habitat for some riparian forest species of plants and animals.
Populus, scattered trees in open ground: see scattered trees in open ground (gen.).
Quercus, scattered trees in open ground: see scattered trees in open ground (gen.).
Quercus/Carpinus/Ulmus (gen.), deciduous forests: oak/hornbeam (Quercus/ Carpinus) forests, with
stands of overmature, mature and young (saplings/scrub) trees: CORINE 41.2.
CORINE 41.2: OAK-HORNBEAM FORESTS; Carpinion betuli; Atlantic and medio-European forests
dominated by Quercus robur or Q.petraea, on eutrophic or mesotrophic soils, with usually ample and
species-rich herb and bush layers. Carpinus betulus is generally present. They occur under climates too
dry or on soils too wet or too dry for beech or as a result of forestry practices favouring oaks.
Quercus ilex (gen.), broad-leaved, evergreen forests: forest dominated by Quercus ilex or
Q.rotundifolia, with stands of overmature, mature and young (saplings/scrub) trees: CORINE 45.3.
Species associated with Q.ilex scrub, which could fall into CORINE 32311 (see under high maquis) are
coded in the Macrohabitats table both under Quercus ilex saplings (macrohabitat category 1613) and
under high maquis (macrohabitat category 12321).
Quercus pyrenaica, (gen.), deciduous forests: Quercion robori-pyrenaicae: Q.pyrenaica-dominated
forests of the Iberian peninsula and, locally, south-western France. CORINE 41.6
Quercus suber (gen.), broad-leaved, evergreen forests: western-Mediterranean silicolous forest
dominated by Quercus suber, with stands of overmature, mature and young (saplings/scrub) trees:
CORINE 45.2; usually more thermophile and hygrophile than Q.ilex-dominated forest.
Quercus/Ulmus/Fraxinus, alluvial hardwood forest: diverse riparian forests of the middle courses of
great rivers, inundated only by large floods and with stands of overmature, mature and young
(saplings/scrub) trees: CORINE 44.41
CORINE 44.41: MEDIO-EUROPEAN FLUVIAL FORESTS Querco-Ulmetum minoris; fully
developed, very tall, multilayered, highly diverse riparian forests of oaks, ashes, elms, limes, maples,
alders, poplars, cherries, apple, willows of the middle and lower courses of large medio-European river
systems, in particular, the Rhine, the Danube, the Ernst, the Elbe, the Saale, the Weser, the Loire, the
Rhône-Saône systems. Their highly complex structure is formed of eight strata to which participate up
to 50 species of trees and shrubs. The upper arborescent stratum includes Quercus robur, Fraxinus
excelsior, Ulmus minor, U. laevis, U. glabra, Populus alba, P. tremula, P. canescens, P. nigra,
Acerpseudoplatanus, platanoides, Salix alba, Alnus glutinosa, Prunus avium, the lower arborescent
stratum Malus sylvestris, Tilia cordata, the sub-arborescent shrub layer Alnus incana, Prunus padus
and Crataegus monogyna. There are very varied high and low shrub layers and numerous lianas,
Clematis vitalba, Tamus communis, Humulus lupulus, Hedera helix and Vitis vinifera ssp. sylvestris.
Most diverse, structurally, floristically and faunistically, of all European ecosystems, and closest in that
respect to tropical communities and to the warm temperate forests of the Pleistocene, the great fluvial
forests of Europe are reduced to a few highly vulnerable examples, located mainly within the Rhine,
Danube and Elbe systems.
raised bog, bog: CORINE 51.1: NEAR-NATURAL RAISED BOGS; undisturbed, or little
disturbed, peat-forming bogs, often taking the shape of a convex lens. Such intact or nearly intact
systems have become very rare or even exceptional. They are composed of a number of communities,
which form and occupy the topological features of the bog. These communities are interrelated and
function as a unit, so that they cannot be regarded as separate subhabitats; their presence and
combination, however, characterise the various types of bogs. Typically, fen/acid fen communities
occur round the outer edge of the bog, where its water-supply is maximally influenced by ground-
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