44.311 - Sedge ash-alder woods

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Formations of Fraxinus excelsior and Alnus glutinosa of sub-Atlantic and subcontinental middle Europe, distributed in western Europe, in northern, Central and Eastern Europe, extending south in Central Europe to the confines of the Fagion sylvaticum, Fagion illyricum and Carpinion illyricum zones, with an abundance of Carex remota, Carex strigosa, Carex pendula, Carex sylvatica.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Carici remotae-Fraxinetum caricetosum

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)

Noirfalise, 1952; Oberdorfer, 1953, 1990; Tüxen and Oberdorfer, 1958; Duvigneaud and Mullenders, 1962; Ellenberg, 1963, 1988: 140, 143, 144; Horvat & al., 1974: 471; Westhoff and den Held, 1975; Bournérias, 1979, 1984; Soo, 1980; Yon and Tendron, 1981; Moravec & al., 1982; Matuszkiewicz, 1984; Noirfalise, 1984: unit VIII.4a; Korotkov & al., 1991: 296; Wallnöfer & al., 1993: 98-100; Seliskar, 1998: 1.