42.22 - Inner Carpatho-Alpine montane spruce forests

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Picea abies forests of the montane level of the inner Alps, characteristic of regions climatically unfavorable to both beech and fir. Analogous Picea abies forests of the montane and collinar levels of the inner basin of the Slovakian Carpathians subjected to a climate of high continentality.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

"Piceetum montanum", Abieti-Piceetum montanum p., Tilio cordatae-Piceetum

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)

Ellenberg, 1963, 1988; Mayer, 1974; Ozenda, 1981, 1985; Richard and Pautou, 1982; Matuszkiewicz, 1984; Noirfalise, 1986, 1987: unit P3b; Elias & al., 1991.