42.11211 - Peri-Alpine neutrophile spruce fir forests

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Neutrophile fir forests of the montane or submontane levels of the northern, western, southwestern and southern outer Alps, the western Carpathians, the northern Apennines, the Jura and the Hercynian arc, 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 composed by elements of the Fagetalia and of the Piceetalia.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Abieti-Piceion p.: Galio rotundifolii-Abietetum (Galio rotundifolii-Piceetum) 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: 88-95; Ozenda, 1981: 167-173; Oberdorfer, 1992b: 235-236; Wallnöfer, 1993b: 315-317; Seliskar, 1998: 7.