62.422 - Mountain siliceous cliffs

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Siliceous rocks and cliffs of the alpine to montane levels of high mountains of the mediterranean, nemoral, boreonemoral and boreal zones of the Palaearctic, harbouring specialized alpine chasmophyte communities.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Rhizocarpion alpicolae, Umbilicarion cylindricae, Rhizoplacion chrysoleucae

Bibliographie

Devillers P., Devillers-Terschuren J. & Vander Linden C., 2001. PHYSIS Palaearctic Habitat Classification Database. Updated to 10 December 2001. Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles, Bruxelles. (Source)

Matuszkiewicz and Matuszkiewicz, 1975: 105; Ellenberg, 1988: 452-455; Einarsson, 1994; Gudmundsson and Kjartansson, 1996; Puytorac & al., 1997.