42.215 - Cold station spruce forests

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Picea abies woods of anomalous stations at the montane or subalpine level of the Alps, in particular block forests of "ice cellars" (shaded rocky screes through which cold air flows), woods developed in valleys and depressions where cold air accumulates on clear nights, woods colonizing stabilised screes and narrow bands of rocks, woods on moist sites.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Asplenio-Piceetum

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)

Richard and Pautou, 1982: 169; Ellenberg, 1988: 209-210, 215-216, 451; Wallnöfer, 1993b: 322-324; Oberdorfer, 1992b: 74; Seliskar, 1998: 7.