24.211 - River gravel banks

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Deposit beds of Palaearctic streams formed of pebbles, gravels, boulders or a mixture of gravels and finer sediments strewn along the sides of the stream or constituting islands in its channel.

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)

Ellenberg, 1963, 1988; Vanden Berghen, 1982; Polunin and Walters, 1985; Oberdorfer, 1990, 1992a; Clark, 1990; Schubert, 1991; Summerfield, 1991: 199-204, 284-287; Leser, 1994: 141-142; Einarsson, 1994: 146-154, 169-170; Waugh, 1995: 50-89; Gudmundsson and Kjartansson, 1996: 23-29.