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SALAMON-ALBERT É., HORVÁTH F., & ORTMANN-AJKAI A.: Climatic conditions and habitats in Belső-Somogy, Külső-Somogy and Zselic as vegetation-based landscape regions II. Temperature and precipitation sensitivity of woodlands

SALAMON-ALBERT ET AL.: CLIMATIC CONDITIONS AND HABITATS 63 Woodland habitat groups Fig. 6: Spatial distribution of semi-natural woodlands and their habitats in the vegetation based landscape regions a) woodland habitat groups (J, K. L), b) habitats of riverine and swamp woodlands (J2-J6), c) habitats of mesic deciduous woodlands (Kla-K5), d) habitats of dry closed deciduous woodlands (Ll-L2x). More sign and abbreviation see in Material and methods precipitation indices. Closed and mixed steppe oak woodlands on foothills (L2x) occur only in the most eastern part, on hillsides facing the Great Hungarian Plain. Turkey oakpedunculate oak woodlands (L2b) developed on soils with changing water level, dominate in Belső-Somogy. Although it is grouped to dry closed deciduous woodlands (L), this is not a dry woodland, but a habitat bound to sandy soils with changing water supply, similarly to azonal riverine and swamp woodlands (J). Discussion Previous studies suggest, that precipitation must have a more significant role in the existence of woody habitat types in the landscape region, opposite to temperature variables (

SALAMON-ALBERT et al. 2010a). According to our current results, temperature variables are valid in narrow ranges and had poorly differentiated multipeak distributions and climate functional groups as well. Among them temperature seasonality is an