Boreo-alpine riparian galleries
Common name:
Boreo-alpine riparian galleries
Habitat code:
G1.12
Description:
Riverside, lakeside and seaside alder, birch or pine galleries and cordons of the boreal, boreonemoral and boreosteppic zones, of the high mountains of the nemoral zone and of their piedmont influence region, dominated by [Alnus incana] along the montane and submontane rivers of the Alps, the Carpathians, the northern Apennines, the Dinarides, the Balkan Range, the Rhodopides and neighbouring regions, by [Alnus incana] or [Alnus glutinosa] in boreal Fennoscandia and northeastern Europe, by [Betula pendula] or [Pinus sylvestris] in western Siberia. In the herb layer, nitrophilous and hygrophilous species dominate: [Aegopodium podagraria], [Chaerophyllum hirsutum], [Petasites hybridus], [Crepis paludosa] and [Caltha palustris ssp. laeta].
References:
ILE SAS, 2005
Important species scientific name | Corresponding species comments |
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Pinus sylvestris Linnaeus, 1753 | Species mentioned in habitat definition as characterising |
Chaerophyllum hirsutum Linnaeus, 1753 | Species mentioned in habitat definition as characterising |
Aegopodium podagraria Linnaeus, 1753 | Species mentioned in habitat definition as characterising |
Crepis paludosa (L.) Moench, 1794 | Species mentioned in habitat definition as characterising |
Petasites hybridus (Linnaeus, 1753) Gaertner, Meyer & Scherb., 1801 | Species mentioned in habitat definition as characterising |
Alnus glutinosa (L.) Gaertn., 1926 | Species mentioned in habitat definition as characterising |
Alnus incana incana (L.) Moench, 1794 | Species mentioned in habitat definition as characterising |
Betula pendula Roth, 1788 | Species mentioned in habitat definition as characterising |
Legal instrument | Habitat type legal name | Habitat type legal code |
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EU Habitats Directive Annex I | Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Padion, Alnion incanae, Salicion | 91E0 |
Bern Convention 1996 | Boreo-alpine riparian galleries | 44.2 |
EUNIS Code | Type Name | Name |
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G1.121 | Montane grey alder galleries | Montane [Alnus incana] galleries |