Syntaxonomical classification of wet woodlands with Picea abies in Slovakia

P Kučera

doi:10.15407/ukrbotj76.04.316

Abstract

Syntaxonomical classification of wet woodlands with Picea abies in Slovakia

Highlights

Woodlands with the natural dominance of Picea abies are distributed in the Western Carpathians predominantly in the mountains where they form a distinctive belt, the supramontane altitudinal vegetation zone, mostly above 1400 m a.s.l. (Domin, 1923; Kučera, 2012)
The aim of this study is to present formal descriptions and differentiation of the plant communities of wet woodlands with Picea abies based on both published and unpublished relevés from Slovakia
Supramontane Picea forests of the order Cortuso-Piceetalia in Slovakia are characterized by numerous species and with a considerable higher differential value: Valeriana tripteris, Primula elatior, Phyteuma spicatum, Cortusa matthioli, Polygonatum verticillatum, Mycelis muralis, Cirsium erisithales, Calamagrostis varia etc

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Woodlands with the natural dominance of Picea abies are distributed in the Western Carpathians predominantly in the mountains where they form a distinctive belt, the supramontane altitudinal vegetation zone, mostly above 1400 m a.s.l. (Domin, 1923; Kučera, 2012). Woodlands with the natural dominance of Picea abies are distributed in the Western Carpathians predominantly in the mountains where they form a distinctive belt, the supramontane altitudinal vegetation zone, mostly above 1400 m a.s.l. Apart from the supramontane zone of the Western Carpathians, Picea abies naturally dominates (or codominates with Abies alba) on locally distributed special habitats, especially on more or less groundwater and/or above-ground-water influenced areas (Šomšák, 1979, 1983; Šomšák et al, 1993, 1996; Bujakiewicz, 1981; Majzlanová, 1983; Staszkiewicz, 1993; Kasprowicz, 1996; Parusel, 2007; Wilczek et al, 2015; and others) in the lower montane elevations of the Fagus sylvatica-Abies alba forest zone (class CarpinoFagetea Jakucs ex Passarge 1968).

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