PHYTOSOCIOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF THE CAREX BRACHYSTACHYS COMMUNITIES IN THE WESTERN JULIAN ALPS. The mountain Carex brachystachys communities which colonize the cool, wet and shady rocks of the Western Julian Alps are phytosociologically described.
On the basis of a numerical classification this vegetation type has been assigned to Caricetum brachystachyos Lüdi 1921 and its endemic component discussed.
Theoretical remarks about the use of corological criteria in syntaxonomy are put in evidence.
