44.2 - Boreo-alpine riparian galleries

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Riverside, lakeside and seaside alder, birch or pine galleries and cordons of the boreal, boreonemoral and boreosteppic zones, of the high mountains of the nemoral zone and of their piedmont influence region, dominated by Alnus incana along the montane and submontane rivers of the Alps, the Carpathians, the northern Apennines, the Dinarides, the Balkan Range, the Rhodopides and neighbouring regions, by Alnus incana or Alnus glutinosa in boreal Fennoscandia and northeastern Europe, by Betula pendula or Pinus sylvestris in western Siberia.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Fagetalia sylvaticae: Alno-Ulmion minoris (Alno-Padion): Alnenion glutinoso-incanae p.: Alnetum incanae s.l. (Alnion incanae); Roso-Betulion pendulae

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)

Ellenberg, 1963, 1988; Horvat & al., 1974; Braun-Blanquet, 1975b; Ozenda, 1981; Yon and Tendron, 1981; Matuszkiewicz, 1984; Pignatti, 1982; Moravec & al., 1982; Nordiska ministerradet, 1984; Noirfalise, 1986; Ferioli, 1989; Oberdorfer, 1990; Korotkov & al., 1991; Påhlsson, 1994.