Avrupa Doğa Bilgi Sistemi (EUNIS) Habitat Sınıflandırması ve Türkiye Öksin Alanındaki Doğu Kayını (Fagus orientalis Lipsky) Ormanları Örneği

Studies about conservation of biological diversity are often collided with nutritional and sheltering needs of people and economic developments. However, all countries must complete studies to determine their biological diversity according to their own conditions to ensure efficient and sustainable use of existent resources. For that purpose, EU countries have been developed an easy and understandable classification system which is called the European Nature Information System (EUNIS). On the classification of terrestrial habitats that are dominated by vegetation, plant sociological studies were used. In this case study, Oriental beech forests in Euxine province of Turkey (excluding Thrace, South of Marmara, Western and Central Black Sea region) have been coded according to EUNIS and also 10 new habitat types in the pure and mixed Oriental beech forests have been proposed by means of previous phytosociological studies.