31.62 - Subalpine and oroboreal willow brush

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Willow-dominated communities of higher Eurasian mountains and of the boreal zone, mostly characteristic of the subalpine zone of the higher ranges of the Alpine system and its satellites, where many constitute facies of subalpine bush and tall herb communities, of the slopes of lesser ranges in the boreal zone, including the Scandinavian mountains, of Iceland and of the northern British Isles (cf. unit 37.8).

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Salicion waldsteinianae (Salicion pentandrae, Salicion arbusculae) i.a.

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)

Rechinger, 1964; Guinochet and Vilmorin, 1973; Horvat & al., 1974; Gruber, 1978; Ratcliffe, 1980; Nordiska ministerradet, 1984; Polunin and Walters, 1985; Noirfalise, 1987; Vigo and Ninot, 1987; Ellenberg, 1988; Oberdorfer, 1990, 1993a; Rodwell, 1991a; Newsholme, 1992; Pott, 1992; Karner and Mucina, 1993; Påhlsson, 1994.