44.5 - Southern alder and birch galleries

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Riparian formations of Alnus glutinosa, locally of Alnus cordata or Betula spp. of the Mediterranean basin and of western Iberia, often with Fraxinus angustifolia and Osmunda regalis.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Osmundo-Alnion

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)

Bolos, 1979; Dierschke, 1980; Yon and Tendron, 1981; Rivas-Martinez & al., 1984b.