Early stages of forest regrowth or newly-colonising forest composed predominantly of young individuals of high-forest species that are still less than 5 m in height. Includes young native forest replanted with indigenous trees and naturally-colonising stands of non-native trees.
[This habitat could not be formally defined in the expert system, because successional stage is in most cases impossible to identify from the vegetation-plot data.]
Chytrý M., Tichý L., Hennekens S.M., Knollová I., Janssen J.A.M., Rodwell J.S. … Schaminée J.H.J. (2020) EUNIS Habitat Classification: expert system, characteristic species combinations and distribution maps of European habitats. Applied Vegetation Science 23: 648–675. https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12519
Version 2021-06-01, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4812736.
For the official presentation of the EUNIS Habitat Classification from the European Environment Agency, please see: EUNIS Terrestrial Habitat Classification 2021. The FloraVeg.EU presentation may show modifications and partial updates to the habitat classification.