61.1131 - Alpine woodrush screes

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Humid, humus-rich silicate screes of the Alps, on slopes long-covered with snow, carpeted by the alpine woodrush, Luzula alpinopilosa, accompanied by a cortŠge that constitutes an ecological variant of the snow patch communities of unit 36.1114, characterized by a stronger representation of scree species of the Androsasetalia.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Luzuletum spadiceae 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)

Favarger, 1972: 206; Ellenberg, 1988: 438-439; Englisch, 1993.