62.3121 - High altitude and arctic siliceous pavements

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

More or less level surfaces of siliceous rock of nondesert arctic regions and of the nival, or aeolian, level of mountains of the Palaearctic.

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)

Summerfield, 1991; Einarsson, 1994; Gudmundsson and Kjartansson, 1996.