Abstract
A syntaxonomic revision of vegetation of anthropogenic metalliferous habitats (mine spoils of lead, zinc and copper mining) in the Eastern Alps (Austria, Germany, Italy and Slovenia) was made. The communities studied belong to the Thlaspietea rotundifolii (Linaria alpina-Cerastium uniflorum comm.,Papaveri kerneri-Thlaspietum kerneri, Violetum dubyanae, Thlaspietum cepaeifolii, Thlaspietum rotundifolii, Scrophulario juratensis-Erysimetum sylvestris, Minuartia gerardii-Silene glareosa comm., Epipactido atrorubentis-Silenetum glareosae andSileno alpestris-Moehringietum muscosae) and to the Asplenietea trichomanis (Sileno rupestris-Asplenietum). There is neither floristic support nor syntaxonomic justification for the concepts of the Galio anisophylli-Minuartion vernae, the Violetalia calaminariae and the Violetea calaminariae in the Eastern Alps. These units should be included within the Thlaspion rotundifolii, Thlaspietalia rotundifolii and Thlaspietea rotundifolii, respectively.
