31.41 - Alpide dwarf ericoid wind heaths

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Very low, single-stratum, carpets of trailing azalea, Loiseleuria procumbens, prostrate Vaccinium spp. or other prostrate ericoid shrublets, accompanied by lichens, of windswept, mostly snowfree, localities in the alpine belt of the high mountains of the Alpine system.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Loiseleurio-Vaccinietea: Loiseleurio-Vaccinietalia: Loiseleurio-Vaccinion

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; Gruber, 1978; Gimingham & al., 1979; Dupias, 1985; Polunin and Walters, 1985; Salomez, 1990; Oberdorfer, 1990, 1992b; Pott, 1992; Grabherr, 1993d.