R16 Perennial rocky grassland of Central and South-Eastern Europe
Open grassland generally dominated by perennial grasses with rich mixtures of associated rosette herbs, mat-formers and geophytes, and especially towards Southern Europe, annuals. It occurs on shallow, impoverished soils over both calcareous and siliceous bedrocks, through the lowlands and submontane zone of Central and Southern Europe, best developed on steeper ground unsuited for agriculture, but extended where forest clearance and grazing, particularly by goats, have been part of traditional farming.
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Version 2021-06-01, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4812736.
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