42.213 - Moist subalpine spruce forests

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Sphagnum-rich Picea abies forests of the Alps, developed on more or less peaty, humid but not waterlogged substrates, with Listera cordata, Sphagnum acutifolium, Sphagnum quinquefarium, Sphagnum girgensohnii. Spruce forests developed in fens or swamps at the periphery of raised bogs or on waterlogged soils in forests are included in swamp forests of class 44, as unit 44.A411.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Homogyno-Piceetum sphagnetosum (Sphagno-Piceetum calamagrostietosum villosae

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: 53; Noirfalise, 1987: 45; Ellenberg, 1988: 218; Wallnöfer, 1993b: 288, 290; Seliskar, 1998: 7-8.