42.25 - Peri-Alpine spruce forests

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Spontaneous Picea abies formations occupying outlying altitudinal or edaphic enclaves within the range of more predominant vegetation types, in particular the montane levels of the outer Alps, the Carpathians, the Dinarides, the Jura, the Hercynian ranges, the subalpine levels of the Jura, the western Hercynian ranges and the Dinarides.

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)

Horvat & al., 1974; Matuszkiewicz, 1984; Noirfalise, 1987; Ellenberg, 1988; Oberdorfer, 1990.