24.423 - Tufa cascade vegetation

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Euhydrophyte moss and algae communities of Palaearctic streams poor in nutrients but rich in lime, forming large, structuring, tufa deposits, with a complex arrangement of subcommunities, characteristic, in particular, of the karst region of the eastern Adriatic.

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)

Horvat & al., 1974: 492-494.