24.224 - Gravel bank thickets and woods

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Thickets or woods of, among others, Salix spp., Hippophae rhamnoides, Alnus spp., Betula spp., on stream gravels of mountain and northern boreal Palaearctic streams with an alpine, summer-high, flow regime. Precise communities can be indicated by use of codes from unit 44, in particular unit 44.11.

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)

Påhlsson, 1994: unit 7.2.1.3 [p.].