31.49 - Mountain avens mats

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Dwarf heaths formed by mats of the woody Dryas octopetala in high Palaearctic mountains, in arctic and boreal regions and in isolated Atlantic coastal outposts.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Seslerietalia coeruleae: Caricion firmae p.; Kobresio-Dryadetalia: Dryadion octopetalae

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)

McVean, 1964b: 492-493; Ellenberg, 1963, 1988; Horvat & al., 1974; Ratcliffe, 1980; Ozenda, 1981, 1985; Nordiska ministerradet, 1984; Noirfalise, 1987; Coldea, 1991; Rodwell, 1992; Grabherr & al., 1993; Påhlsson, 1994.