42.25412 - Medio-European calciphile montane spruce forests

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Calciphile spruce forests of the montane or submontane levels of the outer Alps, 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.: Calamagrostio variae-Piceetum p. (Calamagrostio variae-Abietetum, Carici albae-Abietetum), Adenostylo glabrae-Abietetum p., Carici albae-Piceetum, Pyrolo-Abietetum (Piceo-Abietetum), Seslerio-Piceetum; Cephalanthero-Fagenion p.

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: 95-100; Horvat & al., 1974: 564-565; Oberdorfer, 1992b: 236-237; Wallnöfer & al., 1993: 166; Wallnöfer, 1993b: 318-322.