41.28 - Southern Alpine oak-hornbeam forests

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Fragmentary mesophile or mesohygrophile formations of the Insubrian pre-Alps, the northern Apennines, the Ligurian Apennines, the Esterel and the Tanneron and very locally, the southern French Alps (forˆt du Saou, Dr“me), with Quercus petraea, Quercus robur, Fraxinus excelsior, Tilia platyphyllos, Tilia cordata and Carpinus betulus, developed on deep soils in conditions of sufficient atmospheric and edaphic humidity. They represent a transition between the medio-European formations of the Pulmonario-Carpinenion and Galio-Carpinenion on the one hand, the southeastern formations of the Carpinion illyricum, and perhaps the southwestern formations of the Polysticho-Corylenion, on the other hand.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Carpinion betuli: Primulo vulgaris-Carpinenion betuli (Erythronio-Carpinion p., Carpinion betuli illyricum p., Pulmonario-Carpinenion p., Polysticho-Corylenion p.): Physospermo-Quercetum petraeae, Salvio glutinosae-Fraxinetum, Euphorbio-Carpinetum, i.a.

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)

Fenaroli, 1970; Barbero & al., 1971; Ozenda, 1985: 162, 270; Noirfalise, 1987: S5, S6 [p.]; Oberdorfer, 1992b: 160; Wallnöfer & al., 1993: 142.