Middle European [Pinus sylvestris] forests

Indigenous [Pinus sylvestris] forests of the lowlands of nemoral Europe, south of the main, boreal and boreonemoral, nonalpigenous, area of continuous natural lowland occurrence of [Picea abies], of adjacent wooded steppe regions, and of siliceous soils of the montane or collinar levels of the central European Hercynian ranges and the eastern Alpine system. Acidophilous mixed forests with vegetation of the alliance [Dicrano-Pinion] with [Festuca ovina] dominating in the herb layer.