Abies alba and Abies alba-Picea abies forests developed on acid soils of the Alps, the Dinarides, the Carpathians, the Pyrenees, the Jura, the Hercynian ranges and the northern Apennines, within the biogeographical range of beech forests of the Fagion medio-europaeum, of the Fagion illyricum or of the Fagion dacicum.