36.31 - Alpic mat-grass swards and related communities

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Closed grasslands of deep, acid soils of the Alps, the Carpathians, the Pyrenees, the northern Apennines, the Jura and the higher Hercynian ranges, the northern and central Dinarides, developed mostly and abundantly in the subalpine level, dominated or co-dominated by Nardus stricta, Festuca eskia, Festuca nigrescens, Festuca rubra, Alopecurus gerardii, Bellardiochloa violacea (Poa violacea), Carex sempervirens, Anthoxanthum odoratum. Similar Nardus stricta grasslands of the Moesian region of the Balkan peninsula, distributed at high elevations of the Balkan Range, the Rhodopides, the Moeso-Macedonian mountains and the Pelagonides, as southern extensions of the Alpigenous communities or as grazing-induced facies of the more varied communities of unit 36.39.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Caricetea curvulae: Festucetalia spadiceae: Nardion strictae, Potentillo ternatae-Nardion, Achilleo-Arnicion

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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