Neutrophile fir forests of the montane or submontane levels of the northern, western, southwestern and southern outer Alps, the western Carpathians, the northern Apennines, the Pyrenees, the Jura and the Hercynian arc, within the area of distribution of the montane beech forests of the Fagion medio-europaeum, dominated by Abies alba with a varying admixture of Picea abies, Fagus sylvatica or both.