%0 Journal Article %T SYNTAXOMOMICAL SURVEY O F EUROPEAN BEECH FORESTS: SOME GENERAL CONCLUSIONS %A H. DIERSCHKE %J Annali di Botanica %D 1997 %I University La Sapienza of Rome %X A short overwiev is given about the historical development of syntaxonomy of European beech forests. Different solutions of classification have been proposed, following more or less two main approaches: Division of alliances and suballiances by ecologically or geographically orientated species groups. A new classification of European beech forests is proposed with 8 (or more) geographically orientated alliances, which can be further divided into suballiances by ecological species groups. For each alliance character and differential species, nomenclatural type and the area is mentioned, based on a (non puplished) synthetic table, including 10.006 relev¨¦s from all parts of Europe. From this table also some overlapping species groups (a-n) are given. %U http://annalidibotanica.uniroma1.it/index.php/Annalidibotanica/article/view/9030