24.222 - Montane river gravel communities

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Open or closed assemblies of herbaceous or suffrutescent pioneering plants, colonizing, within the montane or submontane levels, gravel beds of streams with an alpine, summer-high, flow regime, born in high mountains of the Alpine system.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Epilobion fleischeri p., Calamagrostion pseudophragmitis

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)

Ellenberg, 1963, 1988; Braun-Blanquet, 1973b; Rivas-Martinez & al., 1984b; Matuszkiewicz, 1984; Oberdorfer, 1990, 1992a; Pott, 1992; Englisch & al., 1993; Seliskar, 1998: 13.