36.1 - Snow-patch communities

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Vegetation of areas that retain late-lying snow. These formations are very developed in boreal and arctic mountains and in subarctic lowlands; they are well represented, though on much smaller surfaces, in the alpine level of the Alps, the Pyrenees, the Carpathians, the Caucasus and the major Asiatic mountains; towards and into the Mediterranean region, they extend to the Paeonian mountains and are represented by relict outposts in the Sierra Nevada, the Cordillera Central, the Monti Sibillini and Abruzzi, North Africa; they occur locally in the Scottish Highlands and in the Sudeten.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Salicetea herbaceae: Salicetalia herbaceae, Arabidetalia caeruleae; Betulo-Adenostyletea: Calamagrostetalia villosae 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)

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