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Nombre original EUR28

9070 - Fennoscandian wooded pastures

Descripción original en inglés (EUR28)

A vegetation complex in which the tree layer varies from sparse forest to small copses of trees and shrubs and patches of open grassland. These habitats have a representative mosaic of copses of trees (usually deciduous trees) and grassland with a long continuity of grazing. The tree layer consists either of deciduous broad-leaved species such as Quercus robur, Fraxinus excelsior, Tilia cordata, Betula spp., Alnus incana or conifers (Picea abies, Pinus sylvestris). Particularly in Sweden there are pastures with old, large oaks. A rich assemblage of threatened lichens, fungi, and invertebrates are associated with the bark and dead or decaying wood. The type also includes (particularly in Finland) deciduous forests established after slash-and-burn cultivation, that was a characteristic feature of the former land use in Finland In Finland scattered in the whole of the country, mostly in Southern and Central Finland, very rare or extinct in northern boreal zone. In Sweden scattered over the whole country. Regional variation is considerable. Wooded pastures are usually dominated by birch, pine, alder (Alnus incana) or spruce (spruce-dominated are often degraded types), in hemiboreal zone there are also subtypes dominated by e.g. Quercus, Fraxinus and Corylus..

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