Title
Moesian Luzula luzuloides-(sessile oak-)beech forests (Fagus sylvatica subsp. moesiaca, Quercus petraea agg.) with Festuca drymeja
Geographical distribution
Country/territory
Yugoslavia: southwest Serbia; Bosnien-Herzgovina: border towards Serbia
area frequency
9 polygons .
Scientific names of main plant communities and their most common synonyms (with author citation)
Luzulo-Fagetum moesiacum after Horvat, Glava… & Ellenberg 1974, Musci-Fagetum Jovanoviƒ 1953.
Structural feature of the main community(ies) (layers, life-forms, etc.)
Dense beech high forests with a sparse shrub layer and a species-deficient, interspersed herb layer consisting of acidophytes. The moss layer is sometimes well developed.
Dominant and most frequent species in different layers
Tree layer
Fagus sylvatica subsp. moesiaca predominating, interspersed Quercus petraea
Shrub layer
Sorbus aucuparia
Herb layer
Luzula luzuloides, Luzula forsteri, Luzula pilosa, Luzula sylvatica, Vaccinium myrtillus, Deschampsia flexuosa, Hieracium lachenalii, Prenanthes purpurea, Oxalis acetosella, Dryopteris filix-mas, Festuca drymeja
Moss layer (incl. lichens)
Leucobryum glaucum, Dicranum scoparium, Cladonia spp., Rhytidiadelphus triquetrus, Hypnum cupressiforme
Diagnostically important species
Fagus sylvatica subsp. moesiaca, Quercus petraea; Luzula luzuloides, Luzula forsteri, Festuca drymeja
Ecological variants
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Geographical variants (geogr. differential species)
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Natural accompanying vegetation (most important units in complex with the name giving mapping unit, scientific names)
Fir-beech forests, serpentine pine forests.
Adjoining climax and permanent vegetation (with numbers of mapping units)
spruce forests (D38, D40), sessile oak-hornbeam forests (F66), species-rich beech and fir-beech forests (F144, F151), Balkan oak-bitter oak forests (G19), Balkan pine and black pine forests (K6, K13).
Land use, substitute communities
forestry (substitute communities, plantations of economic tree-species, scrub)
Formerly forest grazing and litter harvesting, coniferous plantations.
grassland (meadows, pastures, herb-rich communities)
Matgrass communities.
arable land (characteristic weed communities)
No details
settlements (typical ruderal vegetation)
No details
Site conditions of the mapping unit
Landscape type, geomorphology
Mountainous country
Altitudinal belt and/or altitudinal range
submontane to montane; 500-1000 (1300) m
Geology (bedrock)
Tertiary sediments
soil type, also the depth of fine textured earth (soil), stone content; (international nomenclature)
acidic, base-poor brown soils with raw humus; (dystric cambisols)
soil moisture, water balance
fresh
soil fertility
oligotrophic, oligo-mesotrophic
Climate incl. local climate
climate type (following Walter & Lieth)
IV(VI), VI2b
average annual temperature
9-10 EC
average annual precipitation
750-900 mm
average temperature of the warmest month
20-22 EC
average temperature of the coldest month
-2 to -1EC
local climate or other climatic peculiarities
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Importance for nature protection
Present state and development trend of natural vegetation (degree of endangerment)
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endangered communities, species worthy of protection in natural vegetation
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causes of endangerment
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required measures for protection and restitution
Protection of semi-natural and representative stands in particular.
Localities of representative stands (loci typici) with state of protection
of the natural vegetation
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of characteristic substitute communities worthy of protection
No details
Most important references (author, year)
Horvat, Glavač & Ellenberg 1974
Compiled by
C. Hettwer based on documents by Horvat, Glava… & Ellenberg
