24.221 - Boreo-alpine stream gravel communities

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Open assemblies of herbaceous or suffrutescent pioneering plants, rich in alpine species, colonizing gravel beds of Palaearctic streams with an alpine, summer-high, flow regime, formed in northern boreal and lower arctic mountains, hills and sometimes lowlands, as well as in the alpine and subalpine zones of higher, glaciated, mountains of more southern regions, sometimes with abyssal stations at lower altitudes.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Thlaspietea rotundifolii: Epilobietalia fleischeri (Myricarietalia germanicae): Epilobion fleischeri 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)

Ellenberg, 1963, 1988; Holub & al., 1967; Guinochet and Vilmorin, 1973; Braun-Blanquet, 1973b; Vanden Berghen, 1982; Géhu, 1984a; Nordiska ministerradet, 1984; Polunin and Walters, 1985; Oberdorfer, 1990, 1992a; Pott, 1992; Englisch & al., 1993; Påhlsson, 1994; Seliskar, 1998: 13.