62.431 - High altitude and arctic basaltic and ultrabasic cliffs

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Basic or ultrabasic noncalcareous rocks, cliffs and nunataks of nondesert arctic regions and of the nival, or aeolian, level of mountains of the Palaearctic.

Bibliography

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)

Einarsson, 1970; Barry and Ives, 1974; Hattersley-Smith, 1974; Ives, 1974; Bird, 1974; Caine, 1974; Einarsson, 1994: 140; Hansen, 1995: 9.