37.8112 - Alpine fern communities

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Fern-dominated facies of the tall herb communities of the Alps, with Athyrium distentifolium (Athyrium alpestre), Athyrium filix-femina, succession stages floristically often more related to the small reed communities of 37.82.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Athyrietum alpestris, Athyrietum filicis-feminae

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)

Oberdorfer, 1990; Oberdorfer, 1993a: 341; Karner and Mucina, 1993: 473, 487-489; Favarger and Robert, 1995b: 109.