42.11212 - Peri-Alpine neutrophile beech 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 Pyrenees, the Jura and the Hercynian arc, developed in stations sufficiently favourable to beech, dominated by Abies alba accompanied to a varying extent by Fagus sylvatica and Picea abies and with a species cortŠge identical to that of the montane beech forests of units 41.13, 41.14, 41.17.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Lonicero alpigenae-Fagenion p.: Lonicero alpigenae-Fagetum p., Dentario heptaphylli-Fagetum p., Aposerido-Fagetum p., Poo stiriacae-Fagetum p., Aro maculati-Fagetum; Scillo-Fagion p.: Scillo-Fagetum abietetosum, Festuco altissimae-Abietetum i.a.

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: 111-115, 118; Gruber, 1978: 214; Ozenda, 1981: 166-173; Richard and Pautou, 1982: 126-135; Dupias, 1985: 120-123; Vigo and Ninot, 1987: 360-361; Oberdorfer, 1992b: 227-229; Wallnöfer & al., 1993: 154-155, 156-158, 161-163.