Dinaric calcareous silver fir forests are dispersed in smaller patches on the hypercarstic littoral karst mountain environments of the dinarids. Prominent are those on Velebit and Orjen, appearing on bare limestone escarpments in the montane lifezone between . The abundance of precipitation on these coastal mountains of up to 5000 mm/m2a with the dry soil conditions restricts these pure silver fir forests to the most rainy and humid spots of the dinarids.