36.341 - Alpigenous crooked-sedge grasslands

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Formations of the Alps, of the Pyrenees and of the Carpathians, to which the dominance of the crooked sedge, Carex curvula, with twisted leaves whithering early at the tip, gives a highly distinctive texture and yellow-brown hue.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Caricion curvulae p., Festucion supinae p.

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)

Braun-Blanquet, 1954, 1969a; Ellenberg, 1963, 1988; Gruber, 1978; Ozenda, 1981, 1985; Dupias, 1985; Vigo and Ninot, 1987; Oberdorfer, 1990; Jonglet, 1990; Coldea, 1991; Grabherr, 1993c; Favarger and Robert, 1995a: 156-179.