31.8124 - Peri-Alpine sea buckthorn-barberry scrub

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Shrub formations characterized by the physiognomically distinctive presence of Hippophae rhamnoides ssp. fluviatilis or Hippophae rhamnoides ssp. carpatica, rich in xerothermophile species, colonizing dry shingle terraces, no longer subjected to flooding, of peri-Alpine water courses.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Berberidion: Salici-Hippophaetum rhamnoidis (Hippophao-Berberidetum)

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, 1992b; Wirth, 1993.