31.8C3 - Peri-Alpine hazel thickets

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Thickets of the Jura, the pre-Alps, the southern German Hercynian ranges and the inner Alps, dominated by Corylus avellana, with Clematis vitalba and Cornus sanguinea, of particular bio-historical significance as a possible model of the hazel-dominated communities of the Boreal era.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Tilio platyphylli-Acerion pseudoplatani: Clematido vitalbae-Corylenion avellanae (Tilienion platyphylli: Corylus avellana-Tilio-Acerion assns.):
Clematido vitalbae-Coryletum avellanae; Berberidion: Populeto-Coryletum ; Rubo-Prunion spinosae: Rubo-Coryletum

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)

Ellenberg, 1988; Wallnöfer & al., 1993: 128; Wirth, 1993: 66-68; Oberdorfer, 1992b: 174, 175-177.