54.121 - Middle European tufa springs

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Communities of calcareous, petrifying springs of the Alps, the pre-Alpine regions and of the middle European Hercynian ranges and their periphery, forming and colonizing large tufa deposits. When active, tufa springs comprise a hydrosere in which the Cratoneurion plants, and in particular, Cratoneuron spp., are accompanied by fen species such as Carex lepidocarpa and Sesleria caerulea; the latter may physiognomically dominate both the hydrosere and the adjacent xerosere, developed on fossil tufa deposits, in which it is accompanied by Brometalia plants.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Cratoneurion p. (Adiantion p.): Cratoneuretum commutati p., (Cratoneuretum filicino-commutati p.), Catoscopietum nigriti, Eucladietum verticillati, Scytonematetum myochrous

Bibliographie

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)

Lebrun & al., 1949: units 44, 45; Symoens & al., 1951: 339-350; Ellenberg, 1963, 1988: 430-431; Parent, 1973: 96-109; Moravec & al., 1983: 37-38; Pott, 1992: 171-173; Oberdorfer, 1992a: 209-213; Stewart and Church, 1992: 36; Zechmeister, 1993: 229-236; Schubert & al., 1995: 218-220; Seliskar, 1998: 14.