24.2222 - Small-reed river gravel communities

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Closed or lacunar assemblies of often large herbaceous or suffrutescent pioneering plants colonizing montane and submontane gravel beds loaded with finer sands or silts of unregulated streams of the Alpine system and its vicinity. Calamagrostis pseudophragmites is usually dominant, seedlings of montane and dealpine willows, characteristic of 24.2221, often absent.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Calamagrostion pseudophragmitis

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; Rivas-Martinez & al., 1984b; Matuszkiewicz, 1984; Oberdorfer, 1990, 1992a; Pott, 1992; Englisch & al., 1993; Balatova-Tulackova & al., 1993: 117-118.