Willow carr of Western Europe, Fennoscandia and the subatlantic regions of Central Europe
Franguletea Doing ex Westhoff in Westhoff et Den Held 1969
Franguletea Doing ex Westhoff in Westhoff et Den Held 1969
fra01 | Recognition of this class is based on the principles of zonality/azonality and separation of forest/wood and scrub communities into separate classes. The class has been accepted in vegetation surveys of the Netherlands (Schaminée et al. 1998b), Germany (Weber 1998) and Austria (Willner & Grabherr 2007). The syntaxonomic content of this class is sometimes incorporated in the Rhamno-Prunetea (e.g. Bardat et al. 2004; Rivas-Martínez et al. 2011: 332, etc.). (L. Mucina).