Dąbrowa świetlista − typ lasu dębowego charakteryzujący się skąpą warstwą krzewów i bogatym gatunkowo, bujnym runem.

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In an ecosystem, the ground cover forms the layer of vegetation below the shrub layer known as the herbaceous layer. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundcover

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This chestnut oak forest with its herbaceous layer of fern, moss and woodland plants will forever remain intact

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Garlic mustard was invasive in the herb layer of a northern Illinois mesic upland white oak forest, with additional herbaceous layer components consisting of

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Herbaceous (non-woody) Layer

The groundcover or herbaceous layer consists of grasses and forbs and ferns - non-woody plants without a perennial stem. - http://www.museum.state.il.us/muslink/forest/htmls/popups/in...

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The herbaceous stratum contains non-woody vegetation, or ground cover, growing in the forest with heights of up to about one and a half metres. The herbaceous layer consists of various herbaceous plants, grasses, dwarf shrubs (hemicryptophytes, geophytes, therophytes and chamaephytes) and young shrubs - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratification_(vegetation)#He...

Thermophilous oak forest (Potentillo albae-Quercetum, alliance: Quercio petreae-pubenscentis; 'swietlista dabrowa', 'ciepłolubna dabrowa') - https://goo.gl/Lht17t

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dąbrowa świetlista (grafika) - https://goo.gl/Py8T7N

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thermophilic oak forest (images) - https://goo.gl/dYpqWx

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Elsewhere in Poland, there is no more regeneration of oak in thermophile forests as well, because grazing has been stopped (Jakubowska- Gabara, 1996). - https://goo.gl/kezdpC


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Matuszkiewicz A (1977). Der thermophile eichenwald in NO-Polen als anthropozoogene Gesellschaft
[The thermophile oak forest in NE Poland as the anthropic community].