Fir-beech forest

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The fir-beech forest (Abieti-Fagenion) is a plant community of the montane vegetation level (600 to 1400 m) in the Alps and other Central European mountains. In addition to the beech (Fagus sylvatica) and the fir (Abies alba), the spruce (Picea abies) is one of the characteristic tree species . If there is a high proportion of spruce, one also speaks of the spruce-fir-beech forest . Also larch and sycamore can be added.

Depending on the site conditions, different types of fir-beech forest are distinguished:

  • Forest fescue-fir-beech forest
  • Typical carbonate fir beech forest
  • Carbonate fir beech forest with white harrow
  • White grass-fir-beech forest
  • White grass-fir-beech forest with rust sedge
  • Typical forest rush, fir and beech forest
  • Forest rims-fir-beech forest on Pseudogley
  • Forest barley-fir-beech forest
  • Tall perennials-fir-beech forest
  • Tall beech forest with maple and fir
  • Laburnum-fir-beech forest

Depending on the soil and climatic conditions, the fir-beech forest in the subalpine level can be replaced by a spruce forest, a maple-beech forest or another form of vegetation.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Federal Research Institute for Forests, Snow and Landscape WSL: Map of the potentially natural distribution of the fir-beech forests in Switzerland. Retrieved March 30, 2015 .
  2. ^ The national data and information center for the Swiss flora: 6.2.5 Fir-beech forest. Retrieved March 30, 2015 .
  3. ↑ waldwissen.net: Distribution of the beech in Austria. Retrieved March 30, 2015 .
  4. ^ Friedrich Kral: On the development of spruce-fir-beech forests in the younger postglacial (Bregenzerwald and Upper Styria); Prohibition of Zool.-Bot. Ges. Austria 130 (1993). Retrieved March 30, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Specialized agency for mountain forest maintenance (CH): Types of locations of the fir-beech forests of the upper montane level. Retrieved March 30, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Heinz Ellenberg: Vegetation Central Europe with the Alps, Ulmer, Stuttgart 1963, p. 166f