41.1613 - Medio-European blue moorgrass beech forests

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Beech forests of dry slopes of firm limestone or dolomite of the montane, submontane, and sometimes, collinar or planitiar, levels of the Alps and pre-Alps, of the Jura and, locally, of the Hercynian arc, of the southwestern Western Carpathians (Strazov range) and the Germano-Baltic plain (Rgen), with an often gnarled and open growth of trees and an herb layer dominated by the tussocks of Sesleria caerulea.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Seslerio-Fagetum

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)

Noirfalise, 1962, 1987; Fajmonova and Simekova, 1972; Fajmonova, 1978; Timbal, 1981; Noirfalise, 1984: unit IV.4.3.1 [p.]; Ellenberg, 1988: 92-93; Oberdorfer, 1990, 1992b; Wallnöfer & al., 1993.