42.254 - Hercynio-Alpine montane spruce forests

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Spruce forests of the montane or submontane levels of the outer Alps, of the mid-Pannonic hills, of the outer Western and Northern Carpathians, of the Eastern and Southern Carpathians, of the west Ukrainian pre-Carpathic hills and plateaux, of the Jura system and of the Hercynian arc dominated by Picea abies with a varying admixture of Abies alba, Fagus sylvatica or both. They include spruce or fir-spruce forests and spruce-dominated facies of montane or submontane beech-fir forests.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Fagion sylvaticae (Fagion medio-europaeum) p., Aremonio-Fagion (Fagion illyricum) p., Fagion dacicum p., Piceion abietis p.

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)

Mayer, 1974; Horvat & al., 1974: 564-565; Ozenda, 1981; Richard and Pautou, 1982; Oberdorfer, 1992b; Sanda & al., 1992; Donita and Coldea, 1992; Coldea, 1992; Wallnöfer & al., 1993; Wallnöfer, 1993b.