42.1321 - Peri-Alpine acidophile fir forests

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Acidophile fir forests of the montane or submontane levels of the outer Alps, the western Carpathians, the Jura, the Bohemian Quadrangle, the Black Forest, the Vosges, the Central Massif, the Pyrenees, locally of other mid-German Hercynian ranges, in particular, the Thringer Wald, developed in stations edaphically or microclimatically unfavourable to beech, dominated by Abies alba accompanied to a varying extent by Picea abies and with a species cortŠge combining elements of the Piceetalia with those of the Fagetalia.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Piceion abietis p.: Vaccinio-Abietenion p.: Vaccinio-Abietetum (Melampyro-Abietetum, Luzulo-Piceetum), Luzulo-Abietetum (Periclymeno-Abietetum)

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)

Mayer, 1974: 83-88; Ozenda, 1981: 176; Richard and Pautou, 1982: 131-133; Husova, 1983; Dupias, 1985: 123; Noirfalise, 1987: units G1, G2, G3, G4, [p]; Oberdorfer, 1992b: 64-65, 66-68; Wallnöfer, 1993b: 293-295; Schubert & al., 1995: 99-100; Seliskar, 1998: 7.