42.25411 - Medio-European neutrophile montane spruce forests

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Neutrophile spruce forests of the montane or submontane levels of the outer Alps, of the mid-Pannonic hills, of the outer Western and Northern Carpathians, of the Jura system and of the Hercynian arc dominated by Picea abies with a varying admixture of Abies alba, Fagus sylvatica or both. They include fir-spruce forests, with a species cortŠge composed by elements of the Fagetalia and of the Piceetalia, as well as, within the range of Fagion medio-europaeum beech-fir forests, spruce-dominated facies of montane or submontane beech-fir forests.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Galio-Abietenion (Abieti-Piceion) p.: Galio rotundifolii-Abietetum (Galio rotundifolii-Piceetum) p.; Galio-Fagenion p.; Dentario-Fagenion 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)

Mayer, 1974: 88-95, 112-115, 118; Horvat & al., 1974: 564-565; Ozenda, 1981: 166-173; Richard and Pautou, 1982: 126-131, 133-135; Oberdorfer, 1992b: 235-236; Wallnöfer & al., 1993: 156-158, 159-163; Wallnöfer, 1993b: 315-317.